Instructions For Use; Safety Tips - Excel 100 Technical Manual

4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

You will have to learn the characteristics of your wheelchair. It is most important to learn the safest methods to
develop the daily activities in accordance to your life style. Consult your medical advisor or therapist for assistance
by developing safe and effective techniques for your daily activities and your physical possibilities.
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Safety Tips

Daily operations of and getting off the wheelchair, reaching and bending in wheelchair weight distribution will
change the centre of gravity of you in your wheelchair, you will need to become comfortable with these
movements to perform any techniques shown below.
Transferring
Transferring in a wheelchair is a difficult manoeuvre. Consult your physical therapist for assistance in developing
your individual technique. Making a transfer and the possibilities you have are depending on your physical
characteristics. We advise to discuss this first with your physical therapist
If you have however sufficient body strength and you want transfer to and from the wheelchair can you this best in
the following manner:
To get off from the wheelchair:
First of all you must ensure that your wheelchair stand as closely as possible to the place of where you want sit
will. Put castors forward and attach the brakes. Swing away the footplates and place your feet on the ground. YOU
are now in position carry out the operation. Shift your weight forward in the direction to the front of your chair use
the armrests as a support and move to yourself to the place where you want sit. If necessary you can use of
transfer board.
To get in:
In your wheelchair to step you must the same do things such as at from your chair step, only in reversed order.
Reaching / bending forwards
1 Take great care that you are as close as possible as the target object;
2 Drive forward until you are above the object you want to reach and than back and sideward so that the front
wheels are turning to the front.
3 Engage the wheel brakes;
4 Keep the object you want to grab as close as possible to the wheelchair.
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