Better Mobility: The Electric Wheel Chair

2007-07-18 16:23:30

( Health )



Disability and debilitation can be difficult not only for family members, but for the disabled or debilitated person as well. Such a person may feel useless, and may thereafter succumb to depression. Such a person may also feel frustrated, since most disabilities can prevent them from doing things that they once could do with little or no effort.

Wheel chairs have since allowed disabled or debilitated persons better mobility, and have even allowed disabled persons to participate in games such as basketball or racing. Manually operated wheel chairs, however, can be tiring to push, as the disabled person will have to move by turning heavy metal wheels forward or backward. This can strain muscles, or can be difficult for those who have the use of only one hand. Some wheel chair-bound disabled persons will often need a nurse to push their chairs from one place to another, further hindering mobility, and privacy as well.

Electric wheel chairs, however, have improved on the manual wheel chairs designs by giving mobility to all kinds of disabled or debilitated persons. Depending on the facilities with which they are fitted, electric wheel chairs can improve the lifestyles of disabled persons, and give them a chance to function better in society.

An electric wheel chair can be maneuvered using a joystick. This joystick powers the chair’s motorized wheel system, which can allow the user to move smoothly in all directions. Such flexibility was difficult, and often impossible in manual electric wheel chair designs.

Motorized wheel chairs can also be fitted with various implements or machines to help the user in his or her line of work. An electric wheel chair can come with an attached computer monitor and keyboard, so that disabled persons who have lost their powers of speech can carry on a conversation, give orders, or simply express their opinions by typing words out. Such a system can also come with speakers, and with a program that can translate the typed words into speech.

An electric wheel chair runs on a rechargeable battery that must be plugged in every few hours, depending on the extent of the chair’s use. Because of its set up, and electric wheel chair is expensive, and it can be difficult to maintain. If the electric wheel chair is used regularly, its wheels may always need to be cleaned or replaced, and its parts have to be checked constantly to keep the electric wheel chair running smoothly, and for a longer time.

If you are in need of an electric wheel chair, inquire at your local hospital or wheel chair provider for quotes. There are different options for electric wheel chairs, so be sure that you will pay a reasonable price for only the features that you need. An electric wheel chair can provide you or your patient greater mobility, so that depression or frustration due to disability or debilitation will soon be a thing of the past.


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