Comparison of Healthcare Workers Transferring Patients Using Either Conventional Or Robotic Wheelchairs: Kinematic, Electromyographic, and Electrocardiographic Analyses

Figure 4

Transfer to the CWC and RWC. (a) Patient-handling tasks involved with a CWC can be classified into 3 groups: lifting of the patient, repositioning or turning from the bed towards the direction of the wheelchair, and seating the patient safely in the chair. (b) The RWC involves only 1 transfer step, which is that the assistant pushes the patient sitting on a bed forward in the same position to the seat of the RWC.

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