Power Wheelchair Folding RampsWritten by Kay Zetkin
Having problems with navigating your wheelchair on uneven surfaces and bumpy roads? Worry not, with Handi-Trak ® Wheel / Power chair folding ramps. This Trak System from Handi-Ramp is convenient to use because of its full range of lightweight, portable wheel and power chair tracks (or channel ramps). These are designed for easy use, manufactured from durable, extruded aluminum with a non-skid surface. It guarantees decades of useful service for your wheelchair. These ramps are available in different lengths that correspond with single and multiple-step barriers commonly encountered in everyday living. If you are interested on getting to know more about these handy ramps, we give you following specifications on each feature of these power wheelchair folding ramps: •Lightweight – Handi-Trak line offers lightest, most portable wheelchair track ramp products that are available on market nowadays. The new 30” Traks, out in market weigh only 4 ½ lbs. per track. The new 45” unit weighs only 6 ½ lbs. per track. However light they are though, both of these new systems can easily accommodate weights up to 600 lbs. •Easy-to-use – with a featured ¾ “ width of inner dimension, all Handi-Trak systems can accommodate widest wheelchair offset and camberage. In separating or catching on wheels, there are no difficult-to-maniputalte buttons or telescoping parts. The Traks wheelchair ramps have durable welded hinges, too. You simple unfold it to use and fold it to carry around or store. Easy-Carry Handles is an added feature, too, to reduce stress on fingers and wrists. 60” Traks and longer are hinged for additional convenience and portability.
| | Ensuring Safety in Using Power WheelchairsWritten by Kay Zetkin
Have you just been a victim of serious motor impairment and find that you will be wheelchair-bound for rest of your life? Fear not coming days of your life since you can still lead an active life with a little help from right choice of wheelchair. Of course, that would still depend on recommendations and advice of health care professional monitoring your condition. The wheelchair for you will depend on what condition you are in and extent of activities that you are limited to. Getting a power wheelchair over a manual one might be a turning point decision in overcoming your condition. However, there is several safety issues that you need to know before moving around in your power wheelchair. Remember “knowledge is power”, and as a power wheelchair user, it helps to know and understand various safety issues of your apparatus to enjoy more varied uses of your power wheelchair. First off, here are common types and configurations of power wheelchairs that are grouped depending on their uses, size and features: 1.Folding, light-weight models 2.Light-weight, “power-assisted” models 3.Combination “Indoor-Outdoor” models 4.Outdoor models 5.Indoor Stair-Climbing models There are basic dangers in using stair – climbing wheelchair models is that if it falls down a flight of stairs, serious injury or death to user is likely. As such, before choosing use of a stair-climbing power wheelchair, a lot of different variables need to be considered, most depend on users ability to control mechanism. Generally, in order to prevent and survive accidents on power wheelchair use, users’ age and health factors must be significantly considered and wheelchair control methods.
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