Wheelchairs

For someone who is in wheel chair might need a friend, companion, or family to push or pull their wheel chair, and due to this the disabled people gets totally dependent on the help of  family or friends just to do some simple things  like going out ,for some appointments, or to run for small-small  household tasks. However, with today’s technology mounting wheel chair ramps has made possible for the wheel chair hurdle to need lesser assistance or rather no help to do simple easy errands.           

Though, wheel chair ramps provide freedom to the wheel chair users or it can be said that wheel chair ramp is a leaning plane mounted in place of stairs or in addition to stairs. The wheelchair ramps enable wheel chair users to more simply crawl a building.

However, constructing a wheel chair ramp depends on the home, the territory around the house, the area or the space offered and the elements required for constructing and the specifications for a perfect ramp. Thus a wheelchair ramp is designed for an inch of slant or incline for each single foot. In addition the width of the ramp has to be thought about, to avoid falling from the edges or getting stuck while on the wheel chair.

Whilst the thickness of ramp is not a big quandary, the length can be sort of a dilemma. As many people do not have the required area or the space to construct a wheel chair ramp in a straight line to the door. To solve this problem, various wheel chair ramps are designed with switchbacks, when the ramp elevates in one track, and switches back to elevate in the different direction. However, the switch backs are required to determine the elevation required to enter in house.

In addition, while choosing the ramp; there are some key elements that should be taken into consideration. They are: weight capacity, ramp length, rise, and weight capacity.

Weight capacity: Calculate the total weight of the wheel chair, then take care that the ratio is under the weight of the wheel chair ramps. Usually a wheelchair ramp can accommodate 700-800n lbs of whole weight. 

Ramp length: the ramp length depends on the elevation of the ramp, and make sure that there is enough space for free access.

Rise: Rise is the perpendicular height from the starting point to the preferred height.

Ramp width: Take care of the width of the ramp, the starting and the landing point should have ample clearance on each side so as to lay flat.

Along, the wheelchair ramps are available in two major categories that are non permanent and permanent ramps. Where the permanent ramps provide access at fixed areas such as train stations, and buildings, on the other hand the non permanent ramps can move along the wheel chair. Further more the non permanent wheel chair ramps come in three different designs. They are:

The Folding wheelchair ramps: As the name shows such kind of ramps are suitable in the homes or while traveling as they can be folded easily and can be transported along you.   

The threshold ramps: These ramps on the other hand are ideal for small mounts such as doorway threshold.

The telescoping ramp: Quite popular among the mini vehicle owners, also offering accessibility to higher mounts.

Besides, there are various mobility care professionals who assist in choosing the right king of wheel chair ramp according to your needs.

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