For many friends with mobility or physical discomfort who need to use a wheelchair to travel on a daily basis, before purchasing a wheelchair, they are not immune to some questions: ‘Is a well configured wheelchair on the market enough? When to go for a customised wheelchair? Is it necessary for an ordinary person to have a customised wheelchair?’
1. Market allocation of wheelchairs
The market configuration of wheelchairs will have a certain degree of ‘personalisation’, usually based on a pre-fabricated standard frame, through the adjustment of different components to enhance the comfort of the user.
For example, the width of the seat, the depth of the seat, the height of the rear wheels, etc. can be adjusted independently to the appropriate range, but the overall ‘frame’ is prefabricated, the range of adjustment will be somewhat limited.
2、Tailor-made wheelchairs
In some special conditions, the configuration (semi-customised) wheelchair can not meet the requirements, it is necessary to tailor-made according to the individual situation.
For example, paraplegic, paraplegic and other special physical conditions or wheelchair athletes have special needs or have high requirements for comfort, high pursuit of wheelchair users, we should consider to do tailor-made wheelchairs.
Tailor-made wheelchairs are built entirely according to the user's specific needs and body measurements; these wheelchairs are personalised solutions to the user's needs.
This is more comfortable for the user and more in line with the scenario of use that the user needs.
For ordinary people, the standard configuration of wheelchairs on the market can meet the basic needs of most people, if there is no special physical condition or use needs, there is no need to customise the wheelchair.
Before purchasing, users can do some weighing and consideration in the two options of customisation and configuration, combined with their own needs and economic situation to choose, and try to reduce the negative impact of misuse of inappropriate wheelchairs.
