Power Mobility Training for Persons With Stroke

Inclusion Criteria:

• be an inpatient at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre with a primary diagnosis of stroke within the previous 6 months;
• be competent to provide informed consent;
• have permission of the attending physician to participate;
• require no more than minimal assistance for verbal/non-verbal communication and auditory comprehension as evaluated by a therapist or by chart review of the baseline CIHI evaluation;27
• be able to attend during a 20-minute therapy session as evaluated by the occupational or physical therapist;
• use a manual wheelchair for at least 1 hour per day;
• be able to be safely seated in the power wheelchair that we will be using for the study;
• have no significant visual impairment (such that a subject would be unable to see barriers) as evaluated by his/her therapist based on his/her performance during functional tasks;
• Not currently be using a power wheelchair
• have no physical or mental health condition (as determined by the health-care team) that would make participation dangerous.

Exclusion Criteria:

• none