(in RIC and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital at Chicago): Promoting Pressure Ulcer Healing Process using iPUPc Participants: Acute SCI patients with established PUs in sitting area.
Groups: An experimental group (using iPUPc wheelchair) and a control group (using regular wheelchair).
Measurement: Wound assessment using PUSH tool and VeV wound assessment software.
Initial results: iPUPc wheelchair is seen to promote the healing of established PU. Patients in iPUPc group had significantly faster healing of their PU than that from a control group.
Publication: Pressure Ulcer Healing using a New Pressure-relief Seating Design - RESNA 29th Int. Conf., June 22-26, 2006 (pdf) 
Figure 1. Shown with a standard target plate. Top Row: Patient A with pressure ulcers at Left Lower Sacrum (LLS), left upper sacrum (LUS) and right upper sacrum (RUS) who used an iPUPc wheelchair >4 hours daily; Bottom row: Patient B with sacral-coccyx (S-C) pressure ulcer who used a regular wheelchair. The right diagrams show their wound healing progress as a function of time. The patient who used the iPUPc acheived a faster healing process.
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