Do friends who push wheelchairs often have this experience:
When touching the street sill or the uneven road surface, it is easy to be careless and exert too much force, resulting in the passenger almost sliding out of the wheelchair?
Such an operation may become an invisible killer of the family!
Because the front wheel can't pass the street sill, it is pushed hard with brute force, the front wheel is stuck in the crack, and the rear wheel flies forward from the ground. If there is no seat belt maintenance, people will directly fall out of the wheelchair. Then add age, slow response or insensitive limbs, and it is too late for me to stretch out my hand to support the air maintenance. The passenger is extremely easy to face his head to the ground, resulting in unpredictable damage.
How to prevent accidents?
How to push the wheelchair, labor-saving and safe?
1. Fasten the wheelchair pelvic belt (safety belt)
Qualified wheelchairs must be equipped with wheelchair pelvic belt (also known as wheelchair safety belt) during production.
The pelvic belt is not used to tie to the waist. It must be fixed to the pelvis to be effective. The position should be close to the left of the wheelchair seat with the back against the skeleton. When using, cross the pelvic belt left and right over the pelvic buckle to ensure fundamental safety. Fix the sitting position and slide out of the wheelchair forward when the preventive measures are large.
2. Make good use of wheelchair reverse brace or street pedal
Anti back dumping wheel
At the rear and lower part of the main frame of some wheelchairs, there will be a set of back brace design to ensure that the wheelchair will not fall down due to the imbalance of center of gravity. When the road rises, the lever principle can be applied to support the front wheel, support with the rear wheel, rotate and push forward to easily cross the sill.
Step over pedal
When you touch a step, take your foot as the fulcrum and step on it quietly, you can tilt up the front wheel and push it forward, so that people and cars can easily cross the step and sill.
3. How to push the wheelchair down the slope or down the field steps?
Lower slope
After turning the wheelchair, the caregiver cuts the center of gravity of his body close to the wheelchair and slows down the slope. In the process, he can operate the brake in time and apply the braking force of the wheelchair to slow down the impact of the decline.
Lower field stage
After turning the wheelchair, the caregiver steps on the anti back tipping wheel or step-by-step pedal to exert force. The rear wheel is the fulcrum, tilts the front wheel, cuts the center of gravity of his body close to the wheelchair to maintain balance, pulls slowly, and quietly puts down the front wheel after obtaining sufficient interval.