Hospital Wheelchairs

A wheelchair is a chair mounted on large wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person. A hospital wheelchair is a wonderful liberator. A person with a spinal cord injury can get around as quickly in a wheelchair as someone else can on walking. For an older person with arthritis, a wheelchair can provide access to the world outside the home.

If you need a wheelchair to take a loved one from your car to his or her destination in the hospital, transport wheelchairs are available in the main lobby. Wheelchairs are in many sizes, shapes and varieties to meet the diverse needs of a multitude of users with differing levels of physical function and varying interests. There is a wide variety transport, standard, lightweight, heavy duty and reclining hospital wheelchair for all types of need, including the disabled, handicapped, elderly, and invalids. While there are pediatric wheelchairs designed with pediatric consideration, there are also bariatric wheelchairs for heavy weighted people. A manual wheelchair is different from a powered wheelchair. A medical wheelchair is much like an automobile. It provides the interface between the body and the world around it. The lightweight, folding wheelchair is very popular in health care centers and clinics.