The Wheelchair Guide

At the Wheelchair Guide, we provide resources for those interested in learning more about manual and electric wheelchairs, as well as other mobility vehicles, such as Mobility Scooters

The Manual Wheelchair is a device that dates back many hundreds of years, but truly began evolving during the early 1900's. Since then, tremendous headway has been made in the area of manual wheelchairs, as well as many advancements in the power chair market.

Mobility Vehicles, like the wheelchair, help make life better for people of all ages and can also improve the life of caregivers. Please take some time to review some of the useful wheelchair resources below, or you can browse our recent articles.

Popular Wheelchair Resources

• The History of the Wheelchair
• Manual Wheelchair Parts Diagram
• Electric Wheelchair Buyer's Guide
• Introduction to Wheelchair Basketball
• What Are Mobility Scooters?
• Wheelchair Lifts vs Wheelchair Ramps

In addition to the above useful resources, we also cover a number of other topics related to wheelchairs and scooters, including reviews of different types of wheelchair lifts, including those for vehicles, and other senior health related concerns.

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Wheelchair owners often base their decision on whether to get an electric or manual wheelchair on the cost of the device. Manual wheelchairs are typically less expensive than electric wheelchairs. However, they are not always the cheaper option and the needs and abilities of the person using the wheelchair must be taken into consideration.

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For a business owner, a commercial wheelchair lift can often help bring a business to ADA Code or simply make it easier to use for those who use mobility scooters or wheelchairs. However, there are a number of factors that need to be considered. Learn about some of the basics in this introduction to commercial vertical platform lifts.

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In the home, a staircase can present a very big obstacle for a wheelchair user. There are several options to help overcome this obstacle, making the stairs easier to use. The wheelchair ramp is the most common and has been used for thousands of years to provide improved accessibility for wheelchair users.

However, wheelchair ramps can take up a lot of space and are not always the best choice. As a result, it is a good idea to consider all options, which includes things like vertical platform lifts, as well as different types of wheelchair ramps. The type of staircase also plays a role in this decision, as interior staircases often require a special type of wheelchair lift.

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Wheelchairs are a very well known type of home medical equipment and aside from canes or crutches, likely one of the oldest types of mobility aids. However, the wheelchairs or a thousand years ago are of a much different style than those used today, with most manual wheelchairs being based off of a 80 year old wheelchair design.

Selecting the right kind of wheelchair, which includes choosing between a manual or electric, as well as traditional or sports, is not always easy. A great deal depends on the abilities and needs of the wheelchair user, although cost is also a factor.

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A mobility scooter can be a powerful tool for those who are mobility challenged, making it much easier to get around both indoors and outdoors. This type of home medical equipment is intended to help improve accessibility both indoors and outdoors, offering a service that differs from that of a wheelchair. Electric Mobility Scooters are very common today and are often used by seniors and others who have difficulty walking.

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There are many different brands of mobility scooters and it can be quite confusing when trying to find a mobility scooter that fits your needs and budgets. One way to help making finding the right mobility scooter easier is to learn a little bit about how they are classified. There are three categories of scooters, Travel Scooters, Traditional Scooters, and Mobility Scooters, under which most adult scooters can be classified.

Understanding the differences between these types of scooters can help make selecting the right type much easier.

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The wheelchair remains to be one of the most well known and common types of mobility aids. Covered by Medicare and certain other types of insurance, the modern wheelchair is typically modeled after the first E&J wheelchair, which features a hollow metal tube design and folding frame. Electric wheelchairs, or power chairs, are also popular, as using a manual wheelchair does require a good deal of effort, especially over long periods of time.

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Electric mobility scooters are very popular among the elderly, but are used by people of all ages. A mobility scooter provides an alternative to an electric wheelchair and often costs considerably less, but they are not a direct substitution. Instead, mobility scooters are typically designed to be a supplement to walking.

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Manual wheelchairs are quite popular and many people prefer them despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that they are much more strenuous to use than an electric wheelchair. Manual wheelchairs often share a similar design, which can be traced back around 80 years or so to the first E&J Wheelchair, developed by the Everest and Jennings Company.

However, today, sports wheelchairs are becoming very popular, which share many similarities with a standard manual wheelchair design, but are also quite different.

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Wheelchair lifts are a powerful tool that are used to allow a person using a wheelchair or mobility scooter to easily access a staircase. Wheelchair lifts, which are often referred to as porch lifts or vertical platform lifts, are very similar to elevators, but unlike a residential elevator, the vertical platform lift is a single self contained unit, so installation is much simpler and less expensive. Wheelchair lifts are an alternative to wheelchair ramps, but are more expensive than a wooden wheelchair ramp.

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