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[Mary-Anne]

Wheelchairdriver.com has a lot to say about
how the wheelchairs available for sale by commercial companies
are unsatisfactory to paras like Burgerman,
the owner of the site.

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=622&p=6443

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/why-all-powerchairs-should-be-off-road-capable.htm

http://www.wheelchai...programming.htm

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/power-or-manual-wheelchair.htm

He seems to me to make a persuasive argument.

Are you people on this forum aware of perspectives like his?
Do you agree with his ideals?
If so, do you have a chair like he describes?
Why not?
Is it mostly a matter of lack of money?
Lack of availability? Regulations?
Or something else that stops people from getting better chairs
similar to what he describes?

Or is that not what you want in a chair?

Mary-Anne

Edited by Mary-Anne, 13 March 2011 - 06:28 PM.

[isobar]

The guy has very valid points ....... but if money didn't matter i'd have my chair built with transforming capability, attaching a invisible sensors to my temple, back of my neck and chest region. It would read my biorhythm and thought sequences and perform the function i wanted to do.... the capability to stand and perform the functions of walking or going up and down stairs, bend or kneel ; etc .... while allowing the limbs to move. Have a solar cell for backup charging to prevent power loss. Hell sounds more like a skeleton than a chair but at least i can dream. I went off topic excuse me.

[baldfatdad]

I'm a para and don't use an electric chair because I don't want to have to drive a van, rebuild my entire house, and not be able to get to a third of the places I go now.
All chairs could be better. IF everyone had an unlimited budget.
The wheelchair companies make most, probably 90%, of their money on institutional chairs. One size fits all.
There is also the argument of where does resshi money get spent. To put people in chairs or to get them out?

[Mary-Anne]

The closest that technology has reached to the external skelaton
is something like this
http://www.physorg.c...s198475298.html

I was not assuming new technology.
Just applying existing engineering to what people need.

Clearly if your shoulders can cope with a manual chair,
there is something to be said for that,
as long as you can do it.