Self-help video giving our personal perspective of using and attendant (manually pushed) wheelchair. Tips include coping with kerbs, ramps and general tips for your journey.
Good one, not that I needed to know this, but there are many helpers that need to learn the right way to move a wheelchair around, I have been thrown once, and warned people many times about the possibility of this happening. Sometimes a slight out of alignment curb can surprise you!
Fantastic video; I am a wheelchair user and it's amazing how many times I've been tipped into the road because of dodgy kerbs! We too have learned the hard way and I wish I'd have seen this video earlier! Thanks so much for making such an informative and dignified instructional video
Thank you Neil and Sarah, for making this video. I recently started using a manual wheelchair, which I am mostly able to power by myself using my feet and hands on the pushing rim. This is the first video I thought to watch and it has been helpful. Also, we Yanks always are in awe of British places and speech so it was like watching Downton Abbey. It was particularly useful to learn about the stabilizers and how you can reverse them when they would get in the way. I am a US military veteran and get my healthcare at a local VA Hospital. It occurred to me that when they gave me the chair they might have given me some instruction or suggested where to find them. But I am just grateful that they provided a wheelchair to me at no charge. Thanks again to both of you for the helpful and fun video.
thank you for taking the time to make this very informative video. I plan to have my children and family view this to help them as they help me with my wheelchair when I need it. I love how you demonstrate each piece, including going over gravel!
This is fabulous! Exactly what I needed to know. And that fact that you don't just talk about it but show a real trip is so helpful. Thank you for doing this!
Thank you from a stroke survivor! Very well made! I usually push myself with one leg and foot, but I have to move backwards, so when somebody insists on 'helping' me, I'm forced to indure their poor wheelchair pushing! You give good tips which they might be more inclined to listen to.
Very nicely done 😊. I would add: 1. Ensure brakes are engaged/on when the user enters or exits the wheelchair 2. Check if your local council (or comparable body) provides a grant or similar funding for adaptation of the home to enable wheelchair access. The gravel is not ideal - bumpy ride for wheelchair user & not optimal for carer (requires more power & energy to push & can strain the carer's back or other body parts. It is sad to hear that you were not given advice, demonstration, etc. You have done very well to turn the challenge into something helpful for others 👏
Thank you for posting this great video !! The tips a very helpful. I am new to a wheelchair due a massive hemorrhagic stroke and I knew nothing about using a wheelchair. Thank you again for making such an easy to follow video.
Thanks for the informative video! My local wheelchair service recommended viewing this and I wish I’d seen it when I got my first manual wheelchair all those years ago! Like you, we have had to learn the hard way!!! Sending love to you both xx
Hi Neil and Sarah. I recently had to transition to a wheelchair and I found your video extremely helpful. So many great tips. I also enjoyed that you took the extra time and effort to demonstrate each tip and technique. I would really appreciate if you could post more videos like this one. You both strike me as s very loving couple and that you support each other the very best that you can. Sarah, Bless you for being so patient and respectful to Neal. Neal, I wish we could be mates. You do a spectacular job demonstrating how to manage yourself in a chair. Thanks so much for sharing this informative video with all of us who are interested. Cheers, Jeff
Just got my Mom her first wheelchair. Appreciate the helpful tips. Using the tilt bars to gain leverage is something I can see myself doing. Thank you for sharing.
thanxs for good tips i hav daughter in wheelchair and this has most definatly given me some wakeup call i use it like pram going up down kirbs now i will use the back wheels
AS an active wheelchair user you should go down a pavement backwards in case the wheelchair user has a faulty lapbelt. The best rule to remember is back wheels first when going down a slope or pavement.
My wheelchair does not have a seat belt or breaks. I always dread going on buses. Hate being wheeled backwards & whe crossing roads. Some roads have like spot patterns and always in sheer pain.
i use a manual wheelchair, i am single and motate myself. I do find that going backwards (as long as there arent alot of people to watch out for) is MUCH MUCH easier (if you have leg power to push with, a lot less effort than using your arms) also it is MUCH EASIER to go over
Are you talking about friction from the push rim on your hands? If so it might be good to try wheelchair gloves to reduce skin contact with the rim so you can push without it rubbing your hands
part 2 from gary, sorry curbs, differences in height of your pathways, and door jams, etc -- i hope you get the idea, TRY IT i think you will like it. i can go many places using this method that i couldnt get to by going forward all the tme, but of course there are times when this wouldnt work, especially if there is a lot of people on your pathway - but then people are usually MORE THAN happy to assist it you ask and ARE POLITE !!!!!
British homes with their gravel must be something else when it rains. This was not what I was looking for as I would be the one in the chair not the one pushing but still interesting, I use a power chair and don't use a manual often enough.
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Wtf lady "the wheelchair " the wheelchair" you only used his name once the rest of the time you referred to Niel as "the wheelchair " I'm sure he feels the same as I do about being ignored because of having a wheelchair always use person first terminology not referring to a person in a wheelchair as "the wheelchair" as we are not our equipment we are still people no matter how physicality or mentally disabled we are
Tasha Hansen I believe that she was using the term "the wheelchair" because she was instructing how to use a wheelchair properly and teaching about it's mechanisms. I'm sure she would have used her husband's name if she was referring to her husband but for this instructional video she is only discussing the different features of the wheelchair.
