by Burgerman » 21 Dec 2019, 19:49
Theres loads of paraplegics in manual chairs at my local spinal injuries unit. They meet for sport etc. Always going on about powering their manual chairs. Mostly with 3 inch casters, super lightweight chairs. Non of them will even consider the idea of a powerchair. Even though it would free them. Give them some stability, comfort, ability to nip to the shops or go to the pub without that endless fight transfering into a car and dragging a chair across. It stems from the profduction line spinal units. They brainwash all paraplegics into thinking powerchairs are only for quadraplegics and that they are below them. However, once tried, they never usually use a manual chair again.