swalker
Very helpful member
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2014
- Messages
- 1,576
- Reason
- DX MND
- Diagnosis
- 07/2014
- Country
- US
- State
- CO
- City
- Vail
Wow Jim, that sounds like a horror story. I admire you for having the perseverance to overcome the obstacles the chair has presented.
My wife is pretty small, and I don't think there is any way she could push me and the wheelchair to maneuver in tight quarters like you do.
I find that with my chair, I can maneuver unassisted in tight quarters. It is a very large chair, so there is a physical limit to how tight of quarters I can maneuver in, but manually pushing it would not make any difference.
I did have the programming modified on my chair to allow maximum torque at all speed settings. That made quite a difference in slow delicate movements on hills (such as getting into and out of the van's easylock when it is parked on a hill).
An interesting observation about my front wheel drive chair is that the chair is physically shorter when going backwards. That is because the rear caster wheels rotate around. When space is really tight, I have to go backwards. The entrance into my house requires me to do this. After a couple of tries, I found it to be no problem at all.
Steve
My wife is pretty small, and I don't think there is any way she could push me and the wheelchair to maneuver in tight quarters like you do.
I find that with my chair, I can maneuver unassisted in tight quarters. It is a very large chair, so there is a physical limit to how tight of quarters I can maneuver in, but manually pushing it would not make any difference.
I did have the programming modified on my chair to allow maximum torque at all speed settings. That made quite a difference in slow delicate movements on hills (such as getting into and out of the van's easylock when it is parked on a hill).
An interesting observation about my front wheel drive chair is that the chair is physically shorter when going backwards. That is because the rear caster wheels rotate around. When space is really tight, I have to go backwards. The entrance into my house requires me to do this. After a couple of tries, I found it to be no problem at all.
Steve