Wheelchair parts – use them to add to the comfort and therapeutic value of your wheelchair!

Wheelchair parts or accessories are added to the frame of the wheelchair to enhance its operation. These include wheelchair seats, backs, push handles, armrests, footrests and hand rims. These wheelchair accessories also add to the look of the wheelchair and offer you more stability, positioning, improved propulsion, pressure relief, and comfort. Most wheelchairs come with a variety of parts included in the base piece. If these components do not adequately address your needs, you can add on more features with your choice of wheelchair parts.

The back and seat will heavily influence your posture in the wheelchair. And hence, your comfort. There are a multitude of seat and back wheelchair parts to address positioning and alignment. To make your seats plusher, you may want to try out a solid seat insert. It is an inexpensive way to lengthen the seat depth along with a wheelchair cushion. For example, the use of an 18-inch-deep cushion with an 18-inch-deep solid seat insert can be used to change a 16-inch seat depth to an 18-inch seat depth.

Armrests can also enhance the level of comfort in your wheelchair. By offering a soft pillow to your arms they can be very useful in avoiding shoulder injuries or edema. Additionally, armrests may provide some degree of stability to the pelvis too. Footrests or leg rests work in coordination with the seating surface to provide support to your legs. You can try swing-away footrests are a good choice since the move away and do not interfere with your feet. Other related wheelchair parts, which can be added for support, are trunk supports and head rests.

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Garima Sharma is a successful author and publisher at www.1st-at-wheelchairs.com.  Recommending wheelchairs, lift chairs, wheelchair lifts, rollators, mobility scooters along with other medical equipment and supplies.
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