It's an unfortunate fact that as we get older our everyday mobility, that we have taken for granted for so many years, begins to diminish and we find ourselves in need of rollators, walkers and other mobility aids to help us get around. Fortunately, there are a variety of walking aids in the marketplace which can help us get around our homes or back outside to visit friends and family.
Walking or mobility aids like walkers, crutches, canes, rolling walkers and the ever popular rollator, can enhance our ability to move about when our legs grow tired. Of course this presumes that you have some physical capacity to move about since walking items like walkers, rolling walkers, rollators, canes and crutches accompany the movements of your feet, ankles, legs, back and spine. You might need some extra time to get from point A to point B, but with a little effort and skill in using your mobility aids, you can achieve greater mobility than left to your own natural devices.
But what happens when you are incapable of moving your legs, can you still lead a mobile life? Thankfully, the answer is YES! With the old fashioned wheel chair you can get around quite a bit inside and outside. Of course when you are outside, your wheelchair is limited to locations that have taken into account those who lack natural mobility and have designed entrances with wheelchair access. Fortunately, legislation has looked favorably on those who are incapacitated and have made it law that public buildings and most private businesses must at least provide an alternate access point of entry.
For those who can afford to do so, there are also powered mobile units that you can buy to turn your manual, self-powered wheelchair into a powerstroll model that propels your wheelchair without manual exertion. With such a device you can roll up hills, ramps and even cut around corners with greater agility than usual, and it runs on just one battery operated control pack which can be installed on your chair quickly and easily.
With all these different mobility aids, life doesn't have to stop once your mobility does. No matter the severity of your incapacity, within reason, you can still lead as normal a life, relatively speaking of course, as you did before the decline in your mobility. And just between you and me, zipping around the mall in a powered wheelchair sounds kind of cool.
Walking or mobility aids like walkers, crutches, canes, rolling walkers and the ever popular rollator, can enhance our ability to move about when our legs grow tired. Of course this presumes that you have some physical capacity to move about since walking items like walkers, rolling walkers, rollators, canes and crutches accompany the movements of your feet, ankles, legs, back and spine. You might need some extra time to get from point A to point B, but with a little effort and skill in using your mobility aids, you can achieve greater mobility than left to your own natural devices.
But what happens when you are incapable of moving your legs, can you still lead a mobile life? Thankfully, the answer is YES! With the old fashioned wheel chair you can get around quite a bit inside and outside. Of course when you are outside, your wheelchair is limited to locations that have taken into account those who lack natural mobility and have designed entrances with wheelchair access. Fortunately, legislation has looked favorably on those who are incapacitated and have made it law that public buildings and most private businesses must at least provide an alternate access point of entry.
For those who can afford to do so, there are also powered mobile units that you can buy to turn your manual, self-powered wheelchair into a powerstroll model that propels your wheelchair without manual exertion. With such a device you can roll up hills, ramps and even cut around corners with greater agility than usual, and it runs on just one battery operated control pack which can be installed on your chair quickly and easily.
With all these different mobility aids, life doesn't have to stop once your mobility does. No matter the severity of your incapacity, within reason, you can still lead as normal a life, relatively speaking of course, as you did before the decline in your mobility. And just between you and me, zipping around the mall in a powered wheelchair sounds kind of cool.