Wheelchairs, wheelers, wheelies, it can all mean something different to each of us. The reason for this website is to make anybody who uses a wheelchair or has some kind of relationship with it be comfortable with it, get plenty of information and be able to share with others.
“Not everyone who uses a wheelchair is a paraplegic and you don’t have to be a paraplegic to use a wheelchair.”
There are many reasons why people use a chair. The most obvious one is for para and quadriplegia. So when somebody sees you in a chair, they usually presume that you have been in a car accident and now you are paralysed from waist down. Nobody’s going to argue that complete paraplegia is not a good reason for using a chair. They will understand it. They will say that you are confined to it but that it is the only way for you to get around. Fairly clear cut. But how about a person who has incomplete paralysi