What is a wheelchair?

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2022-11-24

Wheelchair is a chair equipped with wheels that can help replace walking. It is an important mobile tool for home rehabilitation of the wounded, the sick and the disabled, turnover transportation, medical treatment and outdoor activities.

What is a wheelchair?

Wheelchair is a chair equipped with wheels that can help replace walking. It is an important mobile tool for home rehabilitation of the wounded, the sick and the disabled, turnover transportation, medical treatment and outdoor activities. Wheelchairs not only meet the needs of physically disabled people and people with mobility difficulties, but more importantly, it is convenient for family members to move and take care of patients, so that patients can take physical exercise and participate in social activities by means of wheelchairs.

Ordinary wheelchairs are generally composed of a foldable frame, left and right side plates (skirt boards), front and rear wheels, left and right knee pads and pedals, left and right armrests, handlebrake devices, a medical image data bag and a urine bag hook for the back of the seat.

From the driving can be divided into electric and manual wheelchair: from the function can be divided into standard wheelchair, nursing wheelchair (rear wheel 12-16 inch small wheel), toilet chair (stool chair), cerebral palsy chair, sports wheelchair, heavy wheelchair (obesity wheelchair), auxiliary standing wheelchair, aircraft wheelchair (travel wheelchair), beach wheelchair and so on.

Manual wheelchairs are mainly driven by hand wheel, hand drive and hand push drive. Hand-cranked wheelchair adds a hand-cranked device on the basis of the ordinary wheelchair. Electric wheelchair from the drive can be divided into rear drive, middle drive, rear drive three, on the basis of ordinary wheelchair, increase the electronic power system, reduce the user's physical consumption. Intelligent wheelchair on the basis of electric wheelchair, add positioning mobility, standing mobility, remote mobility and related Internet + assisted living intelligent modules.

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