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What is Mobility scooter? Mobility scooter is being taken by members of the PatientsLikeMe community. Share what you know about Mobility scooter in our forum.
Reasons Taken
8 patients in the community are using or have used Mobility scooter.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mobility | 2 | 25% |
| Stiffness/spasticity | 2 | 25% |
| Balance problems | 1 | 12% |
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 12% |
| General health | 1 | 12% |
| Other | 1 | 12% |
Duration
How long current patients have been using Mobility scooter or how long patients were using Mobility scooter before stopping.
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 3 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 100% | 1 |
|---|
Mobility
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 0% | 0 |
| None | 100% | 3 |
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)
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- kayaker
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
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by kayaker
Sep 01, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Mobility
- Advice/Tips
- You need to be able to stand and transfer to use one. Three wheeled ones are much more manoeverable than 4 wheeled but less stable. A power raising seat is very nice.
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0 helpful marks
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- dundee
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
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by dundee
Nov 29, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- Stiffness/spasticity
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