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The Sadler's Ultra Challenge is a wheelchair and handcycle race that runs between Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska. It is the world's longest wheelchair race. Divisions include Men's Handcycle (with A, B, and C classes), Men's Wheelchair, and Women's Handcycle. The 267-mile-long (430 km) race is run in eight stages and takes six days to complete.
A mobility aid is a device that helps individuals with mobility impairments to walk or improve their overall mobility. [1]These aids range from walking aids, which assist those with limited walking capabilities, to wheelchairs and mobility scooters, which are used for severe disabilities or longer distances that would typically be covered on foot.
For example, wheelchairs provide independent mobility for those who cannot walk, while assistive eating devices can enable people who cannot feed themselves to do so. Due to assistive technology, disabled people have an opportunity of a more positive and easygoing lifestyle, with an increase in "social participation", "security and control ...
The wheelchair symbol is "international" and therefore not accompanied by Braille in any particular language. Specific uses of the ISA include: Marking a parking space reserved for vehicles used by people with disabilities/blue badge holders; Marking a vehicle used by a person with a disability, often for permission to use a space
The addition of geared, all-mechanical wheels for manual wheelchairs is a new development incorporating a hypocycloidal reduction gear into the wheel design. The 2-gear wheels can be added to a manual wheelchair. The geared wheels provide a user with additional assistance by providing leverage through gearing (like a bicycle, not a motor).
Passenger can use stairs but needs a wheelchair or other means of transport for longer distances. WCHS (Wheel Chair Stair) Passenger cannot use stairs and needs a wheelchair or other means of transport for longer distances. WCHC (Wheel Chair Cabin) Passenger needs a wheelchair. Deaf: Passenger with hearing loss. Blind: Passenger with vision ...
A mind-controlled wheelchair is a motorized wheelchair controlled by a brain–computer interface.Such a wheelchair could be of great importance to patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS), in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except the eyes.
The 2003 Vision featured a 50° wheel cut, for improved maneuverability over previous Type C buses. The instrument panel featured large back-lit gauges and switches. The Blue Bird "Handy Bus" option package specified wheelchair lifts and flat-floor interiors. The Vision was available in standard (72") or high (77") headroom.