How To: Transfer from Floor to Chair 

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Bravo Mr. USA b/c you are very tall. Thanks for this video. I've been SCI for 41 years and used to be so much more active in my younger years. Now as I approach a much older age (59), I'm thinking about these things. This is my new challenge for 2024.

i had my first fall two days ago. i never learnt how to do floor to chair transfers but i watch a couple videos on youtube. also lucky for me there were people that stopped to help me. i got in to the back facing position and i directed the people. i did most of the work. i was really proud of myself being my first time. ive been paralyzed now for 3 months. this video has given me better insight. i like the way you explain it. i will watch more of your videos. thanks for sharing your knowledge. i am an L1 to L4 complete cauda equina.

Thanks for your videos. 25 year para here. Dont forget when you do the rear facing method the more you dive your head down when u do your explosive push up the more your rear end will pop up over the seat cushion. Makes it easier to lift your rear pushing your head down like that.

THANK YOU FOR THE CLOSED-CAPTIONING & encouragement!JLDR 21 Sept. 2015

THIS IS ONE I WILL WATCH IN A FEW. AS OF YET, I AM NOT WHEELCHAIR BOUND. HOWEVER, WHENEVER I FALL, I CANT GET UP, BECAUSE OF SEVERE NERVE DAMAGE FROM DIABETES. THE PAIN WHEN I GO TO GET UP IS EXCRUCIATING. I HOPE THIS IS BENEFICIAL. I HAVE NOT FALLEN IN AWHILE, BECAUSE OF EXERCISING(CHAIR ONES) THANKS!!

Who on earth would give this a thumbs down? I think you are pretty awesome and creative!

Thank you this video is going to help me for the rest of my day

As a recent ampute I'm struggling. This will help a lot and I will look for more, thank you I loved the music too, had to listen again for that!

I am not disabled myself, but recently, for the past couple years, when I stock the bottom shelf, of the store, I can not get up, without a milk create. That is, especially if I am on the floor, for a while, putting up several items. I first got interested in this, when I was researching about Handcycles RU-vid. Those bikes have the peddle crank for the hands at the top. Those bikes, often with 3 wheels, give quite an upperbody workout, but I never tried one before. Cheapest Handcycles can be around $1200. I have seen Handcycles in use at a local park. In Aug 1989, I crashed hard on my bicycle, with my jaw hitting the ground, and broke my jaw. Crunched 2 vertebrae together, at about C6 in the neck, but the jaw breaking, saved me, from being a quad, shoulders down. Right hinge of jaw snapped.

Great Video for floor to chair transfer. I am always surprised to hear that people can't complete this transfer. I hope this helps those for more independence! Great work!!

Thanks so for all the different ways to ....you are a blast, keep on sharing your wealth of information!

I'm an amputee and use a wheelchair and would like to see more videos addressing issues involving amputees and wheelchairs.

I share this to a few Multiple sclerosis pages...love your "can do attitude"...

I recently found an easier way for me to do this. I pulled my cushion out of my chair and sat it on the floor and got on it which raised me up a little higher making it so that my legs dont flop over. Sooooooooo much easier!!!! Less strain on my shoulders! Of course I had to get out of my chair to put the cushion back in it by getting on the couch.

I like that you guys showed different types of people transferring.

Great video. I am a c-4 c-5 incomplete and I have been transferring from the floor to my chair this same way for years.

This is a wonderful video! Thank you!

Cool this is a really good video tbh I actually found this video helpful

This is awesome!

I really enjoyed your video, Another happy home racer. :) very informative video, Thank you. I have partial use of my right leg for a little while longer but Hey Happy days. :)

I am a T2 incomplete para for 30 years and I still can't transfer from the floor to my chair. So wish that I could. This was a very well made instructional video for learning how to get to and from the chair and floor. Great work!

This is excellent!!! I will be sharing this :)

Hi! So good! You can use everything that is stabile enough to hold your weight: Books, in the forest a tree which was made fallen to the ground by a woodchuck, a box and others more. Best this time l found that there were several members who tought us how to do it. There were little varietes by handling and how this works! Fantastic job you do and thanks for your friendly face and character, that helps us to see our handicap a bit as a chance! When some is taken away from us this might be a chance to see something from another sight. When l bekam more and more handicapped l suddenly had to stay home. A short time later after, including all, 15 years, my former mate went away and my little son was so unseddled and confused that he needed me 25 hours a day. And l had all the time he needed! That was the chance he could overcome it withöut unhealthiness forever! You know what l mean? I allways have time, whatever he needs me for! And he is chronicle handicapped , too, but it's his blood and his metabolism, you can't see anything untill he falls down, begins to cry and can't get up. After a time we found out to see some time earlier that it could be his next time and we learned to prwent it mostly! That's so great! I never ever would been able to watch him this qualiy if had worked! So l say, GOD gave me a stop to help my child! Thank you, jesus! And now l've learned so much and do it fwrther on! I love to learn to handle my package but l never had reached out for it. But, too, l'm so thankful to jesus to have had all the time for my child that way! I love to live and will learn more and more! So: Be blessed every single day, my dear! Yours, Conny

Beautifully explained, with humour.. :) I was recently diagnosed with chronic radiculopolyneuropathy, secondary to an MGUS which may lead to Waldenstroms. My walking is already a bit compromised, so I was trying to get my head round 'what happens if I have to use a wheelchair eventually?' My first thought was 'how the heck do you get into one?' Now I know. Thanks!

Ive been trying this but im not quite as fluid as the examples given in this video...I've been paralyzed for over 5 yrs. Now and i want to be more independent . Thes videos are very inspirational and informative thanks alot!!

thanks, great video.

Thank you for this all love you

Your great

Awesome video! :D

National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability (NCHPAD) I like to MEET Mary

Great and energetic video :) Very informative. Does anyone know what spinal cord level she is?? Thank you for making this video!

Are you wearing a low back brace of some kind for postural support? If so, what kind?

Thanks for sharing, giving me a kind of sureness to know that ill be able to do some stuff sitting in a weehlechair sooner then id like.

It does take a lot of practice as I found but worth it in the end

I so wish I could transfer like you lol. I do the forward method to get back in

National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) Buenas noches, por que Mary Allison no sube nuevos videos.?? me sirvieron de mucho

hello Allysson, I'm from Brazil .... congratulations, you are fantastic ... big kiss for you

Hi im manny ...you have any info on leg pain are shock pain ...i use a old tie and tie my leg for a few mins and take my meds but on real bad days its unreal... thanks for all your info much love to your family.

Wow.. I have to try this..

Excellent video. I could never do this without my breaks. No way I can do this now after 32 years and buggered upper body limbs.

It looks like my arms are just too short over my wheelchair. With stretched arm, I do not touch my wheelchair. Perhaps I need more power in dominant hand / arm? However, I lack that power (chronically ill). So choose the less elegant choice. But this video helped me very much! Have even come across a solution to get to your own toilet by simply transfering to a small chair. Okay, an extra transfer, but still, it's pretty easy now. before that, it was impossible because of the placement of the door. Thanks for the interesting videos !!!

Hi! Great! Thanks! How to do it if shoulders aren't as powerful as yours? And if legs fall aeide? I saw some with a strap on the upper legs. I ryself have very few/less? Power in my damaged shoulders. They had OPs several times, the name is frozen shoulders and it's one of 16 chronical diseases. But: l'm able to stand and to walk a few steps which makes me very happy! I'm only half-lame at my left leg after some vertebrals went half-out. Don't know the correct expression. Sorry! Can you say/write/show me how l can get it, please? Be blessed!

Thanks for all informations, I'm also paraplegic, I'm from Algerie bye....

When's the next on out. sorry about the spelling in my big post I was trying to type fast as I was in a rush and I didn't re read it

Do you have videos or info about tetraplegia people? I'm a C5-6 Incomplete for 23 years and i still cannot from my chair. Please give me some info. Thanks

Great video! Placing the front caster facing forward may help with the forward stability of the wheelchair when transferring to and from it. What would you suggest if the individual has relatively shorter arm lengths? Thanks.

LOL THE GUY in the red shirt just fell out of his chair haha

What is your cushion of choice?

Mary Allison, what's your level of injury? Just out of curiosity

How to transfer into chairs or vehicle being a double leg below knee amputee

buenas noches, por que Mary Allison no sube nuevos videos. me sirvieron de mucho.

How can my assistans help me to transfer me without a lift down on the floor ?If you want to excercise yoga...

she is so so so cute

Any suggestions for my husband. Shorter arms and about 200 pounds. 6 feet tall. T3.

I have a new chair on order shiuld come soon it is a sports chair anx i need to kearn hiw to hold wheelies in it and how to maintain it as i have never been rought how to do it in last 4 years and the things i do now i have kearnt of youtube vidios and tauggt my self these how to vidios are very usefull keep them comming

When's the next one

A few years ago I tried to do this to see if I could. Ps I'm not disabled, I could not stop using my legs for stabling myself. It seams harder than it looks.

I'm Mayank...from pink city..India i am also on wheelchair...you have a lot of energy in it...which disease do you have...&..what do you do....??

Could I ask does your dominant hand mean your right hand if you're right handed or vice versa?

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I cant get up while my chair is moving I gotta lock my breaks but going down is easy with no breaks because the chair pretty much move out the way itself

This may be a weird question but I was wondering were you got the bag you hang on ur chair. Iv looked every were andvi cant find any like it . Also I was wondering of you had any videos of children doing transfers. My daughter 9yrs old has paralysis from the hips down we're having trouble finding a good way for her to transfer from the floor back into her chair.

I like your energy. I am getting a wheelchair first time. Scared about toilet ting. Taking off pants and all that. Need help

beautiful woman with lots of spunk im a T10 partial, trying to gain more. and I need more training. insurance forced me to get out of rehab and into the world before I even found out how to do floor to chair and the reverse. thank you

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Sister,What kind of patient?Spinal?

How do I subscribe just to Mary Allison? I don’t see a subscribe button.

I want my new chair should have it in the next couple of weeks fingers crossed 6 weeks gone

Hi Mary Allison! What type of wheelchair is that? I've been trying to find one like that with the wheels high and the seat low.

Hi I am a T5 - T6 paraplegic spinal cord injury I don't have any trunk muscles and my wheelchair sits higher so can you show someone that's getting in a wheelchair that's bigger than yours I would very much appreciated😁🤗

a beautyfull girl

Now I become old man my mucels is not strong what can I do 😊😊

You seem to make everything looks easy, try a T2-T3 injury complete with no balance whatsoever, strong spasticity and 100 pounds heavier...

I have one strong working leg I just use that

my is austin rich from Tallahassee

idk why but a few minutes through my brain went "OH NO SHE'S CUTE"

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I just want how to live as a teenager with a wheelchair

Legs are on floor or stool while sitting

I have a,way of, crossing my feet helps, with, "the twist" move 2 plop bum in sling! also! how!! many times!! in the Very act of doing has sum "kindly" " busi body": oh honey, you cannot do that!!! pleeeease get out of my face

Good but doesn't address variable disability like when your worse at the end of the day.

0:55 why the fuck would someone do this

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