Wheelchair

My Dad rolled the wheelchair that I was sitting in out the front doors of the hospital. I looked at my Mom and the look of relief on her face, as well as signs of sleepless nights and worry caused from the last week. My older brother walked next to my wheelchair and showed off a new action figure as if it was just another average day, excited to share new things with me. I never looked back at my Dad in that moment, but I like to think he looked at all of us with great relief, ready to go home.…

Figure:-1.2 wheelchairs used in sports variant. • Transfer, Stretcher and Variant Stretcher (or transfer) chairs are mobile chairs that can be adjusted to lie flat like stretcher to help in the lateral (or spine) transfer of patient from a bed to the chair. Once transferred, the stretcher can be adjusted to allow the patient to assume a sitting position. Transfer chair often used sliding sheets or inflatable sliding mats with air bearings to facilitate the movement of the patient from the bed…

and Team Canada to the 2004 Paralympics. It can be discussed that the reason for creating this documentary was to reveal the amount of rivalry that occurs between people with disabilities or how their lives have been changed from having to be in a wheelchair. As we watch the film, the continued theme of the movie is that if you believe in…

mom always made you push in your chair whenever you left the table? What’s the big deal? Well for someone in a wheelchair, it is a bigger deal then I could have imagined, beyond just in the way. I spent a mere two hours in wheelchair to try to better understand what it is like. If I were to sum the experience up in one word, it was “difficult.” I was shy and nervous to take the wheelchair out into the community as opposed to staying on campus. That is precisely why I forced myself to take it out…

Anyone can run for president as long as he or she meet the requirements. “The President and the Wheelchair” by Christopher Clausen is an essay about the longest-serving president in American history, Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR was known as the president in the wheelchair, throughout Clausen essay he continuously describes FDR as a handicap. Because FDR was a handicapped person and was in the wheelchair Clausen question whether or not a person who is handicap like FDR would stand a chance of…

Shortly after breakfast the next day, both Dave and Scarlett came in with a modified wheelchair. Unlike standard ones, this one had a higher back and the foot rest went straight across. Neither of them knew how well Johnny would be able to balance on his own quiet yet and felt it would be better to be safe than sorry. “Alright, Johnny,” Dave explained as he moved the wheelchair around. “I’m going to put the wheelchair a few steps away and once we have the footrest here moved, we’ll have you…

MST 313 Semester Project Progress report 1 Wheelchair-friendly Carousel for children fig 1. A sketch of the carousel (Pretorius, 2015) Bernadine Pretorius 28302207 Armand Meyer 10026305 Erica Davison 12064212 Target Market: The design of this wheelchair friendly carousel is targeted at children who are physically disabled and unable to use more conventional jungle gyms/outdoor toys. This carousel can be designed to be part of an indoor playground and can also become inclusive…

Wheelchair Sports Manitoba: Basketball Practicum For my eight hours practicum, I decided participate in wheelchair basketball. The program is organized through Manitoba Wheelchair Sport Association (MWSA), every Tuesday nights from 7pm-9pm at the Duckworth Centre of the University of Winnipeg. The program welcomes a variety of athletes of different ages and abilities. Attending the University of Winnipeg as a student athlete, there have been many sessions of wheelchair basketball after our…

The disability that I decided to do was being wheelchair bound. I chose this disability because I wanted to experience it in an actual work environment and given my occupation the other two would have been a bit more difficult. As most of you know, I work in a restaurant and I am the cashier when I am there. I didn't have access to a wheelchair so I had to improvise. I did my role play in a chair with casters on them. I stand about 5'8 and the window that the customers place and pay for…

Savannah had just started a new year at Mrs.May’s boarding school for girls, she had been going to this school for 3 years. She had one friend, and her name was Flow. Savannah knew she didn’t have many friends because she was in a wheelchair, but being in a wheelchair didn’t mean she was stupid, or weird. Savannah was nice and looked like all the other girls, she had wavy blonde hair pulled up in a pony tail and big green eyes. Another thing Savannah knew was Violet did not like her and did not…