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Standing, walking and running are important functions of human body which are not only essential for moving from one place to another, but for the overall health and fitness. After spinal cord injury, brain gets disconnected with lower body and one is no longer able to stand, walk or run….
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Gone are the days when one size fits all. Wheelchair is a very sophisticated and personalized device these days that can be adjusted to body measurements, level of comfort, type of disability, and level of activities etc. In this article, you will read about what size of different parts of…
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It’s not the case of attaching four wheels to a common chair to turn it to a manual wheelchair. Wheelchair is indeed a sophisticated machine and currently, its various designs available to us, is the result of years of study and engineering. People get confined to wheelchair because of spinal…
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The difficult circumstances, pain and grief after spinal cord injury often leads to depression. Neither It’s just a feeling down, nor a state of mind, but a disease, that needs proper care and attention. Depression after spinal cord injury, effects every aspect of your life in negative manner. It may…
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You were living a full active life, flying high in career or were in pursuit of your dreams, then an accident occurred resulting in spinal cord injury which changed your life completely! You face a lot of new problems, your dependence on others increase, your limitations increase and you feel…
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In part 1, we discussed in detail about importance of independence in Bed to wheelchair transfer techniques to live active life after spinal cord injury, and some general rules and techniques for easy and safe transfer. In this article, we will read about Bed to wheelchair transfer techniques of paraplegics…
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After spinal cord injury as you cannot stand on your feet, so you spend majority of your time sitting. To live an active life, spinal cord injury transfers between various surfaces is required, for example transfer between: wheelchair and bed wheelchair and commode chair wheel chair and car seat Getting…
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Power wheelchair repair part2 In the previous article, regarding removing faults of power wheelchair repair , I mentioned some general tricks. In this article, I will tell you about my personal experience that how I removed faults recently and repaired my power chair. All I did was to guide an…
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