Customizing a wheelchair to fit your specific needs is key. You may want to raise your footplate. You may want a different cushion. You may want a higher or lower seat-back. Don’t be afraid to change up the dimensions of your wheelchair. If you don’t like how it feels you can always change it back, but you’ll never know whats “perfect” for you unless you experiment.
Read more ...A central theme for conversation seems to be independence. What level am I. What I can and can’t do independently. How people walking around perceive me. Most people in wheelchairs are constantly striving to be more and more independent throughout their daily lives.
Read more ...Since starting HowiRoll.com I’ve been reunited with a couple old friends whom I haven’t spoke to in years. One of my old buds suggested a useful tip for anyone in a wheelchair who transfers using a “transfer board”. The more I thought about his tip the more it made sense…. Lotion.
Read more ...Being able to smoothly transfer from wheelchair to car is important if looking to live an independent life. The entire process should become the “norm”, not something you dread having to do each and every day of your life. Your spinal cord injury level may in fact play an ultimate role in how easy this process is for you, maybe it won’t.
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