Manual Wheelchair Use: Bouts of Mobility in Everyday Life

Table 1

Five studies measuring manual wheelchair use in everyday life.

Study	Population	Daily distance	Daily time moving	Daily average speed
Karmarkar et al. [14]	VA nursing homes	1.5 km	n/a	0.48 m/s
Levy et al. [15]	Adults	1.45 km	n/a	n/a
Tolerico et al. [17]	Athletes	2.5 km	48 min	0.8 m/s
Cooper et al. [13]	Children	1.6 km	n/a	0.67 m/s
Oyster et al. [16]	SCI	1.9 km	47 min	0.63 m/s
Ranges	—	1.5–2.5 km	47.5 min	0.5–0.8 m/s