User manual of Tilty
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4. Safety precautions
When developing and manufacturing our wheelchairs, we set great store by safety. In
order to maintain this high quality of safety in everyday life, it is in your own and your
child’s interest to carefully pay attention to the following rules. Improper use could
cause a hazardous situation to you and your child and our assurance of warranty
would no longer be valid.
The following proceedings, eg. for familiarizing your child with the new wheelchair, are
also valid in the modified form for adult users. But for the sake of simplicity, we will
describe the following situations from a (very) young user’s point of view.
Familiarizing with Tilty
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Take your time to familiarize yourself and your child with the new situation. Be
very patient and use caution to make sure that your child will feel safe in its new
wheelchair. Because Tilty is an activity-wheelchair whose limits you’ll have to get
to know. You should really let your child undergo these limits quite literally.
Make sure that during the following steps both of you are safeguarded by an
experienced and strong assistant!
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Lock the parking brakes and put your child into the untilted Tilty.
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Carefully practise the wheelchair’s behaviour on shifting the centre of gravity in
all 4 directions! Make your child reach for objects, holding them further and
further.
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Sensitize your child for these changed situations and ask if something changes,
and what exactly. And do not forget to express clearly that you will now intensify
the situation.
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In any case, this must all be practised without fear. Do not force the learning
process!
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Only after your child has been familiarized with the wheelchair’s static stability in
its standstill position, you should risk trying out the wheeling behaviour.
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Children soon understand how to drive a wheelchair, it nearly is an automaticity.
The process of braking down however, needs thorough practice because it is
dangerous! Tell your child in clear terms that the knee lever brake is NOT
designed for braking down the wheelchair’s speed and that it may fall out of the
chair.
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Your child must learn that it should only use the grip rings for braking down the
wheelchair. Set Tilty in a slow motion and make the child brake down the
wheelchair to the standstill position with its palm on the grip rings. In doing so,
the child should keep in mind what will happen as it reaches between tyre and
grip ring (as far as the wheelchair is not equipped with our Rehavolution-wheels).
If your child has got delicate hands, please give it some gloves, eg. for cycling,
meaning with a leather inside – in no case mitts nor woolen gloves!
