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To get out of the wheelchair :
First of all you must make sure that your wheelchair stands as closely as possible to
the place of where you wish to transfer to. Put the castors forward and engage the
brakes. Swing away the footplates and place your feet on the ground. You are now in
position to carry out the operation. Shift your weight to the front of the chair, you can
use the armrests as a support and move yourself to the place where you wish to
transfer to. If necessary you can use a transfer board.
To get in:
To get in your wheelchair you need to do the same things as when you want to get
out of the wheelchair, only in reversed order.
Reaching:
We strongly recommend that you seek the help of an attendant to pick something up
for you.
4.2 Negotiating pavements and unequal surfaces
Going up the pavement:
The attendant can help you in two different ways, however we advise you to do it the
first way.
1. In the first method for going up a pavement you and the attendant reach to
pavement facing forward. The attendant must pull the push handles towards him
and place his foot on the stepper on the rear side of the wheelchair, see figure 2.
Because of this there is a leverage effect that tips the wheelchair.
2. In the second method the attendant is already standing on the pavement and
makes sure that the wheelchair is positioned with the rear wheels as close to the
pavement as possible. The user of the wheelchair needs to lean backwards. This
way the wheelchair will tip backwards and the attendant can pull the chair on the
pavement. The attendant needs to make sure that the front wheels are on the
pavement before he lets the wheelchair down.
Figure 2