Wheelchair use skills (1) - drive wheelchair
The service personnel need to ensure that the wheelchair user can drive the wheelchair and understand the precautions of the wheelchair on different roads to better play the role of the wheelchair, to make the user more independent and reduce the burden on the nursing staff. (1) Driving a wheelchair When driving a wheelchair on a flat surface, try to maintain a neutral sitting position, hold the hand ring with both hands, and push forward as you go straight ahead. To save effort, you can advance from 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock in the hand ring. (2) Conversion direction In the wheelchair and at rest, the direction can be changed by controlling the hand loop. If one side is used to fix one side wheel and the other hand pushes the opposite side wheel, the fixed wheel can be used as a shaft to turn the wheelchair; the opposite hand pushes the hand ring (one side of the hand ring pushes forward and the other side backwards) ), the wheelchair can be rotated. For example,