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Lift chair Treatment Report

Brand Names: Pride Lift Chairs, Golden Tech

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Reasons used

56 patients in the community are using or have used Lift chair.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Weakness in legs 14 25%
Other 9 16%
General health 6 10%
Stiffness/Spasticity 5 8%
Fatigue 4 7%
Mobility 4 7%
disease-related symptoms 2 3%
Mobility 2 3%
Slow my ALS progress 1 1%

Duration

How long current patients have been using Lift chair or how long patients were using Lift chair before stopping.

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Lift chair

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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10

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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0
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Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 5 71% Other: 71%
Did not seem to work 2 29% Did not seem to work: 29%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 3 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

There is currently no efficacy data for Lift chair.

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 3

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 3 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 3)

  • SirIsaac
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: moderate
    Arms: moderate
    Chest: moderate
    Legs: moderate
  • SirIsaac
  • by SirIsaac
    Aug 27, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Stiffness/Spasticity

  • janik
    Sex: F
    Mouth/throat: mild
    Arms: mild
    Chest: none
    Legs: moderate
    Type: Upper Motor Neuron
  • janik
  • by janik
    Dec 01, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Fatigue

See all evaluation results for Lift chair

Report created on November 08, 2009.