Thursday, February 09, 2006
Various Kinds of Wheelchairs
Several other human beings demand wheelchairs for different uses. Certain people require a wheelchair for short duration while several others use a wheelchair for lifelong. Which other means you use them may differ but one aspect is sure, the modern wheelchair is a modern marvel in pattern compared to 100 years ago.
Wheelchairs are of 2 varieties, first one is the power wheelchair & the second one is the manual wheelchair. Each has limitations & advantages. The manual wheel chair is classified into 2 types, the rigid and the folding frame. The folding wheelchair folds together (wheel against wheel) for very simple compressed carrying.
the folding frame manual wheelchairs are bulky. The rigid frame wheelchair is much lighter than folding frame wheelchair because it has no scissor arms in it. Sport wheelchair is the secondary name of rigid frame wheelchair.
We have powered as well as manual wheelchairs to choose. There are advantages as well as demerits of both varieties of wheelchairs. The current manual wheelchair gives the user a physical exercise in arm exercise. You can move twenty miles in your power wheelchair without any effort. However the operating allows no strains at all.