Thank you so much! I’m a newbie (L4-L5S1), I just received my customised wheelchair and boy do I need practice! The world is so different from the vantage point of being in a wheelchair. Your videos help my confidence. I appreciate your channel, your changing lives for the better! Smashed the like button and you have a new subscriber mate! Peace 👊🏾 🇦🇺
WOAH. Never really dreamed of going up or down an escalator. Ive only ever gone down stairs and off curbs. This was really helpful, thanks for making this video. I loved the looks on peoples faces when they saw you use the escalator. XD
WOW.. i be too afraid to go down an escalator with weak spine issue to go backwards... heck anyway now lol outside an airport flat one.. but IS GREAT TO KNOW for emergencies for sure! Thanks curb is great to know.
Greg, hey thanks for the question! It probably won't because I think they will hit the escalator stair as you go up, but i do know that a lot of anti tip bars flip up so if this is a skill you wanted to try but aren't quite ready to get rid of your anti tippers yet you could try that. Either way when I first learned how to do this I did it with someone spotting me from behind. Keep an eye out for a video coming in the future where Im gonna talk about about how I learned to eventually graduate from having tip bars on my chair! Have a great weekend!
@@AdaptedAdventures thanks may have to try it at MOA one of these days. We always just used the freight elevators by the doors that people don't normally use. But sometimes it would be nice to just hit up the escalators without having to make a detour to the elevators. I havent graduated from my tippers and been in my chair for like 16 years now lol. Howd you get over that fear of tipping back for it's happened to me a few times. But I guess when I am ready for escalators I can always tip them up. Have a great weekend as well.
@@gregher4621 this is gonna sound kinda weird but for me its just getting comfortable WITH falling over... i've been in a chair all my life and i still tip over backwards occasionally but its has become instinct for me to catch myself with my hand and/or pull my head up and tuck my chin so i land on my shoulders not my head... that and just being super confident with handling my wheelchair
Do you have any tips for getting off the escalator when going up? I find going down fine but when I tried to go up an escalator the front wheels of my chair got stuck on the lip at the top. Do you find that you have to lean back or do a wheelie or anything to get off?
@paralife thank you for the question! I've actually dealt with this before too! For me its kind of a two step process, first I don't let go completely of the hand rail I usually keep my right hand on the moving hand rail and then I put my left hand on my left wheel, and I don't do a full on wheelie and my front wheels may not even come off the ground all that much but I kinda like push just enough and lean back so that my front wheels float over that lip and I hand out the hand rail so that keeps me moving forward! Hope that kinda helps :/ .... let me know if you have other questions!
Discovered your incredible channel. So good since my 11 year old grandson has SB so it's like a warning perhaps seeing ahead positively. Can I ask please I got polio as a child and use leg braces zHsv e you Casey ever tried them ?
I had a walking brace when I was younger like grade school, but at a certain point the size of the brace needed to support my body, came to a point that it wasn't worth it anymore
