How to correctly use a wheelchair for spinal cord injury patients
(1)How to practice lifting the front wheel of the wheelchair and using the rear wheel to maintain balance?
This is a basic wheelchair technique that can be done in two ways:
Instruct the patient to balance on the rear wheel:
⑴Instructor Put the patient in the balance position;
2 When driving forward, the wheelchair leans back;
3 When pulling the wheelchair backward, the wheelchair returns to the upright position; Qitaihe City People Hospital Neurosurgery Bian Seibu
⑷The non-contact protection allows patients to experience repeatedly and grasp the essentials of balance.
Using a safety device, the patient practices balance on the rear wheel alone.
How to use the rear wheel to maintain balance and go down the stairs?
Balance on the rear wheel and face the front to descend the steps.
(iii) How do I go down the stairs in a wheelchair?
⒈In a wheelchair, grab the guardrail and go down the stairs. First, back the wheelchair to the edge of the highest step. Then the wheelchair goes down the steps.
⒉ Use the rear wheel to maintain balance and go down the stairs.
1) Balance the wheelchair with the rear wheel, and place the rear wheel on the edge of the highest step;
2 Control the wheelchair to descend;
3 Reaction by pulling the wheel Stabilize the wheelchair on the stairs.
(iv) How to fall safely in a wheelchair?
Many excellent wheelchair skills, including maintaining a balance drive wheelchair with the rear wheels, carry a risk of tipping over. In order to reduce the risk of this injury, the patient may accidentally shift the center of gravity during these movements and the wheelchair will tip over. To reduce the risk of this injury, practice safe falls before practicing balance on the rear wheel.
Safely tipping backwards in a wheelchair simply involves twisting the head to grasp the wheel, and when the wheelchair falls, not the patient’s head or back, but the push handle, so that the patient is Not easy to get hurt, not even uncomfortable.
When the wheelchair falls to the ground, the impact of the patient’s leg may cause the knee to hit the face. This can be prevented by twisting the head and quickly grasping one wheel with one hand, and the other hand quickly grasping the opposite armrest or seat cushion through the leg, this upper limb blocks the fall of the thigh and prevents the knee. The joint hits the face.
(v) How do I get through a narrow porch in a wheelchair?
Many private porches are too narrow to pass a wheelchair, especially in the bathroom, even if the patient has the conditions to renovate his home, he will encounter a narrow wheelchair when he leaves his home. porch. When the upper extremity is well innervated and has a foldable wheelchair, the following techniques can be used to pass through the narrow doorway: fold the footrests after removing the feet; transfer to sit on the armrest; pull the seat cushion up to narrow the folding of the wheelchair; Wheelchairs go through the porch.
