For many people living with a disability or mobility issues, an wheelchair can represent freedom and independence in their day to day lives. They enable users to get out of the bed and allow them to have a good day in outdoors. Choosing the right wheelchair for your needs is a big decision. It’s not much difference when purchasing an ordinary wheelchair or high back wheelchair. But their users are in big difference, we can pay attention to the points below for purchasing a suitable high back wheelchair for users.
The most important is size, the seat width and seat depth. There are three kinds of parameter for normal seat width, 41cm, 46cm and 51cm. But how can we know which one should we choose? We can sit on a chair with backrest and a hard seat, and measure the width at the widest point on both sides of the hips. And compared with the three sizes, the width just fits the size is the best or you can choose the one that is the closest and a little bigger than your hips’ width so that it will neither feel unstable nor warn the skin. The seat depth is about 40cm normally, we can measure our depth by sitting to the deepest of the chair and sticking to the backrest, then measuring the length from the buttocks to the knee socket. For fitting our legs, a two-finger width should be reduced from the length. Because the seat will touch our knee sockets if it’s too depth, and we will slip downward for sitting a long time.
Another thing we need to be aware of is when sitting on a reclined wheelchair, the footrests should be lifted up, because it will make us feel uncomfortable or even numbness .
Post time: Nov-24-2022
