| Wheelchairs mean various affairs to various individuals. They may be a short duration help for improving or they may be long term important sources of locomotion. Which other ways you use them may differ but one thing is for sure, the present modern wheelchair is a new wonder in pattern as compared to 100 years before.
Wheelchairs are available in 2 main classes, the manual wheelchair and the power wheelchair. Both have merits and drawbacks. The manual wheelchair is more classified into, the rigid frame and the folding frame manual wheelchair. The folding wheelchair can be folded easily (wheel facing wheel) for easy compressed carrying.
But the folding frame manual wheelchairs are too heavy. Rigid frame wheelchairs available in one piece have no scissor arms that are necessary for folding thus, this wheelchair is much lighter. Rigid frames are at times mentioned as sport wheelchairs.
So there are two alternatives, either choose power wheelchairs or manual wheelchairs. There are advantages and also drawbacks of both types of wheelchairs. Such a simple wheel chair allows the patient a bodily workout in arm exercise. You can move twenty miles in your power wheelchair without any effort. Fortunately the executing provides no labor at all. |