Buy electric wheelchairs Tips

Choosing a wheelchair with appropriate size and function is very important to patient. A fitting wheelchair can not only make the movement easier, but also befall any safety problem and body damage. To the recovering patient, it is recommended to use hospital’s electric wheelchair. After leaving hospital, if patient needs to lean on electric wheelchair,he/she can buy a power wheelchair accordingly.

 

Below, there are some tips for buying a power wheelchair.

1.safety: Using standard wheelchair would easily turn forward; but using power wheelchair will turn aside. When purchasing a wheelchair, the safety should be considered. Such as the position of hub and front wheel. The seat position,height and carring position will also affect the wheelchair stability. If you push the wheelchair, the front wheel would be easily moved, the back stablity will be reduced down. When you climb the ramp and speed up, the wheelchair would easily fall backward. When the rear axle backward increased stability is conducive to older, persons with poor trunk stability. The closer the location of casters before, the larger the diameter, the lower the side seat, put belongings on the seat or position occurs after partial reduce the possibility of tipping forward. Large wheels and the ground contact point spacing width of the side effects wheelchair stability factor. When the big wheel plane perpendicular to the ground line at an angle of 7 ° lateral stability of the best, and without excessive widening wheelchair.

2.Prices are sometimes sexual and favorable price wheelchair inconsistent prescription must consult with the user, based on actual demand, location and economic capacity such as a comprehensive consideration, try to choose a price they can afford a wheelchair. Also consider the cost of replacement parts.

3.Since the appearance of most of the time accompanied by wheelchair users in their daily, especially women, seat and backrest color, tires, etc. will affect the appearance of the occupant feel, therefore, required to have a certain appearance, so as not to aggravate disabilities mental stress. But should not only pay attention to the appearance of the expense of functionality, subject and object reversed. In addition, the noise should be small wheelchair.

4. Comfort： because of  the user most of the time living in a wheelchair, ride comfort is very important. Seat, backrest, armrest, footrest and other specifications should be appropriate, if necessary, with a variety of pads. There should also be considered hip contracture backrest and seat angle.

5.Weight, size and whether or not folded, wheelchair with strong, lightweight as well. Pushing a wheelchair by the caregiver should be strong, safety first; alone operation by the occupant of the wheelchair should light first. Although the weight of a large electric wheelchair, but there is no occupant force operation, if necessary, you can still choose. For the transfer to the car should use wheelchairs folding wheelchair.

6.The user's ability to operate is generally believed that the power driven wheelchair achieve weight 1/25 to 1/30 that is likely to operate a wheelchair, but the user must be free of mental retardation, hand and wrist, elbow and shoulder coordination meet the requirements of driving a wheelchair. When driving wheelchair has difficulty according to the user's ability, you should select the degree of functional limitation and various drive parts, such as the selection with a push of the hand wheel.

7.Using space:consider the purpose and use of the user's living and working environment, such as residential width, the ground is flat and whether there are steps or ramps and ramp angle, etc., if necessary, to field trips.

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