Wheelchair suppliers advise you to master the brakes (brakes), remove the handrails and footrests, push the buttocks forward and other basic actions in the wheelchair when the patient is engaged in a wheelchair or wheelchair, A wheelchair is picked up from the ground and his hands are moved to the footrest to hold the toe guard. Patients and their families should learn to push the wheelchair on the ground, push the wheelchair on the slope, up and down the stairs and other technologies.

(A) self-use

1. Push the wheelchair on the ground

Push the wheelchair on the ground, the buttocks sit tight, keep the body balance, head up, forward. Arms back, elbow slightly bend, hand grasp the rear ring, arms forward, stretched elbow. At this point the body slightly forward, repeated several times, due to the upper body of the forward force to arm strength.

Wheelchair on the ground:

(1) arms between the wheels around the back, elbow set his hands on the manual circle.

(2) lean back, lower the shoulders, so that the arm can use enough strength to push the wheel back, for the wheelchair can not push the slope, you can use this method to make the wheelchair on the slope.

(3) hemiplegia patients with limb and health coordination exercise to promote wheelchair.

2. Push the wheelchair on the slope

(1) uphill: the body forward. Hands were placed in the top of the manual circle, the wrist dorsiflexion, shoulder flexion and within the forward drive the wheel. By changing the direction of the wheel to make it intersect with the slope, the wheelchair can also be used on the slope.

(2) downhill: stretching the head and shoulders, and the use of hand brake, the hands can be placed in front of the wheel or in the maintenance of the wrist dorsiflexion will be a palm under the top of the manual ring in the brake.

3. Convert the wheelchair direction to turn to the left as an example:

(1) special left hand placed in the rear of the manual;

(2) the left arm slightly to the outside of rotation, which will pass the weight of the body through the left hand to the inside of the wheel;

(3) to the left hand to turn the right wheel back, while the right hand in the normal position will turn the right wheel to the front.

(B) the use of auxiliary

1. forward or backward

① four rounds of land law: wheelchair to maintain the level of push or four rounds of the ground.

② two rounds of land law: the direction of the wheel is empty, big round of the ground, wheelchair tilting 3 mine push or pull.

2. on the steps:

① two rounds of land law, dragged down the steps.

② handle down the bottom of the pull, foot back lever, the direction of the wheel on the steps, the handle above the top, homeopathic big rounds on the steps to promote.

3. Up and down stairs:

① one person, two rounds of land law, backward drag, step by step. Down the stairs and vice versa.

② two people, the same person, another person in front of a wheelchair to help.

③ four people, the same person, wheelchair front and rear of the two, coherent.