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FEATURING MUSIC by ECPE Sunrise remixed by SpinergyDude on Youtube
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Sadly the basic wheelchair design that is featured is NOT just made by anyone single maker of wheelchairs.

INVACARE the company that produced this wheelchair makes some of the nicest products around. In fact I own an Invacare wheelchair myself a K4 coded wheelchair that served me well as a TEMPORY use or NON daily use wheelchair. Here is a link to their site: http://www.invacare.com/cgi-bin/imhqprd/index.jsp

When they first came out decades ago it was umed that ‘ANY’ wheelchair user would never again live as active, or full a life as they did when able bodied. Oddly enough people who where forced by lack of options into these BASIC model wheelchair’s mentioned above started to make changed to them. They wanted to get outdoors, do excerise, roll on with life in all the same aspects they used to leg along.

I know I have done a few wheelchair 101, basics, and such videos now, I feel that we can’t have enough information on WHY the basic or models used today of short term use CAN’T be forced on people who need a wheelchair FULL TIME for daily life by our MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.

This also goes for POWER wheelchairs … NOT SCOOTERS these are different machines entirely.

A POWER WHEELCHAIR is one that uses a Joy Stick, Push Buttons, or other device to allow the use NOT to over use their upper limbs.

A SCOOTER – uses what is called a TILLER to steer with. Think like a car steering wheel, or a set of bicycle handlebars being used out in front of you. Meaning you use and possible OVERUSE of your upper limbs.

A Scooter is tpyivally lighter in wieght, much less costly for the medical insurance company to cover, as are the basic manual wheelchairs I mentione in this video are.

A powerwheelchair is a true wheelchair in that it’s designed to better support a person for full time, daily use. A scooter is built for people with mobility issues not needing to use it fulltime, and everyday, so they do not feature all the compforts medically needed for a daily users needs.

Medical insurance companies know 100% that each of these options has a cost to benefit to them. The more PROPER, ergonomic, and light in weight a manual wheelchaur is the longer it lasts (generally), the lower cost per use it has, the lower cost long term users experience by NOT having as many or any upper limb issues as they self propel.

Our medical insurance companies try hard to make us accept the most basic models of things and for SOME this is just fine as long as 100% every medical need is still met for the END USER and not according to what the medical insurance company says you should accept.

What YOU need to know is YOU can in fact get the most PROPER wheelchair be it manual or powered, a stander model, or otherwise as you medically need.

It means YOU will need to do some homework, and NEVER just trust that your providers/doctors/friends as well meaninged as they may be know you, and your medical issues as well as YOU do.

Not sure where to start? Not sure what to look for? Kinda new to this being YOUR own advocate thing?

Calling the local center for Disability advocacy often leads to them doing little more than telling you about the Center for Disability Rights… Which in my case they have done nothing to help to this point.

What does one do in this case? ASK QUESTIONS HERE.

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