This is a very useful and helpful video. Even a wheelchair user with over twenty years of experience may find new tricks in it. Thanks so much for posting this!
Thanks for uploading this. I am a powered wheelchair user, but am transitioning to using a manual for short distances and friend's houses etc. If anyone has any experience with powered wheelchairs they would understand why. I'm struggling to use it though, and my upper body issues don't help matters. There were some useful tips in here that should help hopefully. It made me laugh to see the tip about sitting on the foot rest because I do that, but I don't have any paralysis, and no one taught me to do it. It just seemed easier, making it a shorter distance to pull myself up.
+DreamBelief Hi its Loren Cushing. I live the choices in adapted mobility devices! I walk at home and real short distances with an orthotic. Community distances I always wheel my manual chair. For recreation I wheel with my "FreeWheel" on the bike paths and I must say it makes management of sidewalks, cracks, bumps, boardwalks, gravel, grass etc. much easier. The Freewheel (FW) has a "perch" that you clamp your FW on for indoor access. In short I applaud your decision to situationally use a manual chair. I hope New Moves will help give you some strategies of independent access! Share the resource!
I watched this because I struggle with ramps and curbs. I think the dynamic wheelie is gonna be a challenge due to my crappy shoulder but looks like a very useful skill
This is a very useful and helpful video. Even a wheelchair user with over twenty years of experience may find new tricks in it. Thanks so much for posting this!
So much fun to see the differences (and similarities) in wheelchairs from 80's and 2020! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks very very very much for this describes
It's very useful and i have learned too much
Again thanks
Thanks for uploading this. I am a powered wheelchair user, but am transitioning to using a manual for short distances and friend's houses etc. If anyone has any experience with powered wheelchairs they would understand why. I'm struggling to use it though, and my upper body issues don't help matters. There were some useful tips in here that should help hopefully. It made me laugh to see the tip about sitting on the foot rest because I do that, but I don't have any paralysis, and no one taught me to do it. It just seemed easier, making it a shorter distance to pull myself up.
+DreamBelief Hi its Loren Cushing. I live the choices in adapted mobility devices! I walk at home and real short distances with an orthotic. Community distances I always wheel my manual chair. For recreation I wheel with my "FreeWheel" on the bike paths and I must say it makes management of sidewalks, cracks, bumps, boardwalks, gravel, grass etc. much easier. The Freewheel (FW) has a "perch" that you clamp your FW on for indoor access. In short I applaud your decision to situationally use a manual chair. I hope New Moves will help give you some strategies of independent access! Share the resource!
I watched this because I struggle with ramps and curbs. I think the dynamic wheelie is gonna be a challenge due to my crappy shoulder but looks like a very useful skill
4 years ago, post a video from the 80’s??? Step one, don’t grip your tire, pretty much ever...
jeremy wells Who told you that? Gripping the tire and the hand rim works great for some people.