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Manual Wheelchair Design and Production

Manual Wheelchair Design and Production

Guidelines on design production and selection of manual wheelchairs. How to produce and supply quality manual wheelchairs in less-resourced settings. Health and safety, strength and durability, suitability for use, and effective production methods are main design criteria. These determine functional performance, stability, manoeuvrability, pushing and transferring efficiency, transport and reliability. Solid Long term testing and follow-ups involve local wheelchair users knowledgeable about their physical, environmental, social and cultural needs.

Wheelchair Sex After Spinal Cord Injury

Wheelchair Sex After Spinal Cord Injury

Some sexual positions after spinal cord injuries like quadriplegia and paraplegia are best achieved by practising wheelchair sex. Modern wheelchairs with easy to remove armrests, footplates, folding backrests, and brakes make wheelchair sex fun and easy empowering greater sexual freedom. Some find paralysis and wheelchair users sexually attractive and actively seek them as partners for sex and life long love…

Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury

Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury

The odds of experiencing chronic pain at some point in our life is extremely high especially after spinal cord injury. Adequate early pain management has proven beneficial to long term chronic pain relief outcomes helping avoid one of the biggest fears related to chronic paiin, addiction to narcotic pain relief medications.