CAN WE USE THIS STOP? -- THE SLIDE SHOW -- WHEELCHAIRS PAGE 15

MANUAL WHEELCHAIRS -- VARIANTS

While most manual wheelchairs are a variant of the type shown in the images on the previous page, there are some other manual wheelchair variants, including:

-- Lightweight Manual Rigid-Frame Wheelchairs:

Modern Lightweight Rigid-Frame Manual Wheelchair
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-- Manual Wheelchairs Used In Wheelchair Athletics

These wheelchairs do not generally have handles at the rear. These are in some cases lighter than other manual wheelchairs. For additional stability, their main wheels are mounted in such a way that the tops of the rear wheels are slightly closer to each other while the bottoms are slightly farther away from each other.

Racing Wheelchair

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Another Type Of Athletic Wheelchair

NOTE: These appear to be modern powered rehab wheelchairs fitted with metal attachments on the sides and front to allow the wheelchair users to "ram" the ball and thus propel the ball in the direction they want the ball to go.
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-- Lightweight manual wheelchairs. These are often made of lightweight metal alloys and -- along with their athletic counterparts -- differ somewhat in appearance from the "standard" manual wheelchairs.

-- Manual "hospital" wheelchairs. These wheelchairs somewhat resemble the "standard" wheelchair above but will have features -- such as built-in IV poles -- that enhance their usefulness in the medical establishment setting.

-- "Beach" wheelchairs. These -- mentioned already in our discussion relevant to "terrain" earlier in this section -- are wheelchairs specially designed for use on beaches and other sandy or "soft" surfaces. These are readily identifiable because of their distinctive very large and rounded wheels that ease the task of moving the wheelchair over such surfaces.

Beach Wheelchair
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-- Manual Snow Wheelchairs

Snow wheelchairs can be either manual or powered. Here is an image of a manual snow wheelchair:

Manual Snow Wheelchair
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-- Leveraged Wheelchairs

A type of manual wheelchair operated via levers -- known as a leveraged wheelchair -- is used in many developing nations with rough terrain. Here is an image of one such wheelchair used in Kenya:

Leveraged Wheelchair
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-- Manual wheelchairs with special modifications. Some manual wheelchairs can be fitted with special modifications for their individual users. One example of such a modification entails the installation of one or two horizontal or semi-horizontal "leg extensions" for situations in which the wheelchair's user must keep one or both legs in a horizontal or semi-horizontal position at all times, including that in which one or both feet must be kept elevated.

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