hey man you are such an inspariation for me! I have been in a wheelchair for 9months now and I'm 13 years old, I also have a condition in my spine from t5 to t9 area and I had slowly started to give up on myself about 2 months ago but from watching your videos has made me have a big boost in my cofidence and I thank you for that!
this helped a lot, thank you!! it wasn't a skill they taught me coming out of the hospital since I had a folding chair and was a bit larger, so wheelies and pop ups were not things i learned in inpatient almostv years ago. I finally got a rigid frame last june, but my husband wouldn't let me practice wheelies until I lost one of my anti tip bars, then forgot the other in my dad's car, lol. A friend finally helped me get wheelies down, but now I have no one to help practice curbs with. I'm too scarec falling to try it alone, but at least I know what to focus on when I'm able to!
Just get someone to practice with or just start slowly and go faster until you get up and also try it on smaller ones first Also, practice falling out of your chair and breaking the fall with your hands and maybe rolling and then pulling yourself back up into the chair so like in case you fall It’s also easier to go backwards and just lean forwards and let the back wheels drop down on the way down.
Being a 66 year old woman brand new to wheelchair life,(I’m not paralyzed, but if I walk more than short distances i stuffer severe pain and falling and looking like I fought s band of gorillas and lost), I so appreciate your videos! I just popped my first wheelie in this ultra light weight (ha) fold up chair, my first rigid frame chair should be here in about 4-5 weeks , we ordered it yesterday. So thanks for all your videos, they have been a great help to me.
you make it look so easy. Wheelies is something I have never learned to do. Wish I could but I have fallen and busted my ass. Good videos appreciate them.
thank you so much! I am getting ready for my board exam in OT, and one of the practice questions is how to teach the client to handle curbs! this is very helpful! I've been watching your video thru 2 years of school. Good luck with everything!
I have always followed ur videos. Craig is where I did my rehab! Accident June 09' Got out Feb 10'. Craig is a great place. C6 Quad. Got hand surgery next month at Swedish to gain function back in my right hand! Thanks for the uploads!
been in a push wheelchair with cerebral palsy for 14 years and I'm 17 years old. I can get down 1-2 stairs and I've been trying to get the skill of going up kerbs and steps and have never quite been able to do so without grabbing something and pulling myself up there or with someones help. but this video looks like it'll help.
i have cerebral palsy and i can not and probably never will be able to hold a wheelie while stationary but i have managed to keep my casters up for 5 pushes in one go so im getting there. i also have really big casters so that helps with uneven terrain. plus when im out in my chair i always have someone there so the can help me in an emergency. when im on my own i have a big road legal mobility scooter
thanks for posting so many great videos, well done. I am sure they will help a lot of people who are new to wheelchairs, or physiotherapists and such. plus a good refresher for people like me 30+ years as a para. Cheers
Thank you so much for this, my multiple conditions have got me to the point where I literally can't leave the house unless I have my wheelchair, and I'm not good enough with it on curbs etc to do it without someone pushing me
Hey thanks so much for posting this. I was reading about this technique in one if my occupational therapy books and was a little confused but this cleared things right up.
I dont lean backward when going down a curb. I stay level with the ground. I feel that if i lean back when going down a curb im going over backwards for sure
The coming down tip is really useful, I had no idea it was supposed to be done that way, so I'd have avoided all but the smallest. However I'm doing the right thing for going up, but could probably only do the smallest of the ones shown, I don't know if it's realistic for me to hope I can learn it, I can get the wheelie high enough but not that and momentum. I would guess being an average height woman I'm significantly weaker in the upper body than you.
Hey man, you are a huge inspiration to me. I had gotten into my accident in the middle of August in 2012. Right now I just don't have the drive to do any of the stuff I need to to better myself but after watchin you I totally need to, and I was super embarrassed with doing things that paraplegics do. I think I'm a t12 complete, I have an muscles and back muscles but have no feelif right around waist line. I actually would like to talk to you a lot, if you could mssg that's be cool,I'm outta spce
I can only pop my front casters up if I'm not moving. So i'm able to get the casters onto the curb but then I don't have enough momentum to get the back wheels up
in my manual wheelchair I never attempt going up or down a curb in FORWARD, I always go BACKWARD in the wheelchair utilizing the BIG wheel's power to prppel me without any fear of tipping over!
Hi Bryan! Thanks for your videos. I'm a paraplegic and I'm working myself on some tips to improve people's life. I'm now researching the tecnique you're showing in this video, but I have difficulties finding out the, or at least one of the people who first invented this method. Can you help me with this? Even just a tip would be very usefull.
Hi, thx for your great video. What is the reason you lift the front wheels when going down the curb? And also, i have small wheels at the back to prevent falling on the back of your head.. don't these form an issue when going down a curb? And last question, bumps are very painful for me, is there a way to go up slower? Thanks in advance!
Hi! I lift the front wheels going down the curb because it’s important that your rear wheels land first. If the front wheels touch down first, it makes the chair seat tip forward which could dump you on the ground. Your anti-tip bars would definitely make it hard to navigate curbs. They can be flipped temporarily so they are pointing up which gives enough clearance. They are mostly for new wheelchair users and they can be removed altogether once you get comfortable finding your center of gravity/tipping point. I had them in the beginning but most people take them off after some time. Unfortunately, you really need to get speed/momentum to go up curbs unless you have someone with you. In that case, you can pop your front wheels up on the curb and have someone lift the rear with the push handles which is a much smoother transition.
Very nice. =) I think the highest to do safely for an average person is 4 or 5 inches. I did a 6 inch curb (up) and very nearly hit my face. Down I've yet to find something I can't do, so long as it doesn't hurt, haha.
gosh you make it look so easy I've tried and I fall it I don't know how many times and I just can't seem to do it and I can't seem to get the wheelies down either ARG
I'm really new to being in a wheelchair and I am utterly terrified of curbs and trying to navigate public transport. Any tips on getting over these fears? I'd really like to leave the house by myself.
I'm a woman and I don't know how to do no Willie I can do a small curve like the one you're doing now getting up on it and coming down off of it but anything bigger than that it intimidates me and I've been wheelchair-bound for 12 years I pretty much mastered everything but a willy
can you do that safely in heavier wheelchairs? i've only seen it done in chairs with the smaller back supports like what you are using. that looks so scary but good to know that it's possible to do if necessary
so what is the highest curb that you can get over, the curb at the very end looked like it could bust a bike tire no offence, my dad has been in a wheelchair for over 12 yrs now
Hi. I’ve been in a chair for 3 years. Lupus attacked my spinal cord and I’m a T4. I have zero chair skills, I’m embarrassed I don’t know any! I get so freaked out w wheelies. I still have my “training wheels” on! Beginners tips?
My problem is when I come up to the curb I almost have to stop to pull the wheelie I have a quickie gt and pretty good at wheelies it seems you barley lean back and your casters come up is it me the chair ??????
Hi I am getting my 1st Tilite soon and am interested in learning how to handle my wheelchair better. I have Cerebral Palsy which i different than paralysis, but I know your level of injury is at the chest. I have weak abs and I would like to know how to hold a wheelie
yes, this video series is great. also contact me if you need more resources for SCI. there's the Reeve Foundation and a lot of groups like "Disability Coalition" on Facebook.
Paul Butt It is but it takes why more time and doesn't work everywhere. That's how I currently handle curbs and I barely manage to get across the street before the traffic lights turn red again
Bro you videos are amazing I get so much info from you man it really help please contact me have some real wheelchair problems and have some ? For you man
hi Brian I am paraplegic and I am very impressed with your living. I am struggling with my weight can you help me in this case plz. I weight 52 and I want to 43kg. I am paraplegic.
Check out my 2 workout videos. The arm bike is an excellent cardio workout for paras and it may help shed some weight. Eating better is you best bet overall.
safe how? when you can just fall backwards and hit the back of your head? and it´s the same hit even if you go down on the backwheels, and i cant see that you can have any speed while doing that which make the transportation rather halting...
+Matthew Peel haha well it depends ive fallen backwards one time and that was because an idiot grabbed me from behind and said here let me help you while i was doing a weehlie but dude it takes to long just to go over a street. and if i want to go down stairs i usually turn around and then grab a hold of the eeh armrest? dont know the word in english and then just reverse down the stairs and it can be really fast.
+thatisnotdead The only time I have fallen from doing a wheelie is one time in 4th grade when I thought one of my friends had ahold of me, so I let go. She didn't have ahold of me lol. I do the same method of going up and down curbs that Paralyzed Living does.
it really doesn't matter as long as you don't land on your front ones first, it's good to learn to land on back wheels if you want to do multiple steps or avoid a pothole on the ground
for those practising: here's what i would CERTAINLY do: i'd wear a HELMET,a FULL FACE HELMET,to protect the back of my head; a friend biker will lend one. this came after i read the comments.,and it's instinctive.......
