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2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Feb 17, 2025
 
2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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RT 2416 - WHEELCHAIR BIOMECHANICS


Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Discuss all areas of wheelchair biomechanics including stability of wheelchairs and propulsion biomechanics. Students will use kinetic and kinematic analysis to determine the forces and moments occurring in upper extremity joints during the propulsive stroke. Clinical correlates to the biomechanical studies will be presented.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Requirements: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences students only.


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