Spinal Cord Injury Tips - Uprighting Your Wheelchair

http://www.apparelyzed.com Presents: This is a basic example of how to upright your wheelchair if you tip backwards. It requires alot of upper body strength, so may only be achievable by lower thoracic and lumbar spinal cord injured individuals.

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[raulesparza]

It would really piss me off every time one of my therapist would show me something and say, -See how easy it is.. Im not sure what one of those injections the doctors give to women so they won't feel pain giving birth and it also does not allow them to move half of their body..Give her one of those shots and then make another video of her demostraiting the procedure..??????

[ars9x]

you can tell she is not paralyzed and she is using her hip and legs for weight distribution. It sooooooo much harder when it is complete dead weight, tho not impossible by any means. I just hate when PTs do this stuff and act like it should be as easy for us. Give them epidurals so the can't feel thier legs, then let em try! ;)

[momcanyou]

when I fall my legs are flopping all around.... that would be impossible

[CallanTalksalot]

I usually fall so hard that I fall out of my chair completely, so I have to crawl to my chair, upright it, then crawl in. Then my hip gets caught on my cushion and tugs on my pants. I'd love for her to demonstrate that rather than tucking her legs under the chair to keep her bum from sliding out. I'm glad I'm not the only one who would love to pop her in the face.

[Ratticis]

If/When I fall, it's never on a flat tiled floor like that, it's usually somewhere with a curb, grassy hill, or big freakin hole

[sparklyAli]

She's using her feet to grip!!!

[ChrisM1279]

This technique seems odd to me. If she were paralyzed her legs would end up in her face, or be flapping around. Mine would.(T12) If you got this much strength, why not just set the chair upright then transfer back from there? That's what I would do.

[tatt2u2]

thats b.s.

[351460]

Most men with a lower level injury should be able to easily do this. Women generally do not have the upper body strength. My ex girlfriend who is an L3-4 could, but it was a few months after her injury once she had conditioned her upper body muscles.

[AMARILLO333]

how in the world did u do that lets be friends k ? michael

[Randomnick123]

If you dont have muscular activity below your chest, thats pretty hard to do.

[leglessinoz]

@jesusfreak2494 some people will never be able to develop the strength needed to do that. Don't generalise. It depends on the disability/injury and some other factors.