Sit, Relax & Enjoy Good Health while Sitting on Reclining Wheelchairs

If you use a standard wheelchair on a regular basis, it makes a sense to upgrade it to reclining wheelchairs. These wheelchairs are designed to recline comfortable at different incremental angle positions so that users can sit comfortably in different angles. This kind of wheelchair offers more comfortable seating than a conventional seating and is ideal to use for both short and long term purpose.  Before discussing about the health benefits of reclining wheelchairs, let’s take a look how these chairs work.

Working of Reclining Wheelchairs

The seat of these wheelchairs works like a driving seat of a car. The users can sit upright or even lie flat at a 180 degree angle by reclining its chair. As per their comfort level, they can raise the knees, stretch out their lower back and hips. When a user reclines the seat of the recline wheelchair, the shifting of the center of gravity takes place from the pelvis to the back. In simple words, it is easy to make such a wheelchair as a resting platform almost similar to a bed.

Just like standard wheelchairs, even reclining wheelchairs come into standard and bariatric models. The bariatric wheelchairs are ideal for people with a weight capacity of over 500 lbs and are recommended to use indoors only.  Some of the benefits of using reclining wheelchairs by a limited mobility or old age people are:

• These wheelchairs are more comfortable than standard wheelchairs owing to comfortable seating positions.
• In reclining chairs, the weight of the body distributes evenly and this help in easing pressure sores and back problems also.
• People with bower and bladder problems find chairs with reclining back quite helpful in removing their body waste.
• A person with limited mobility issues can easily transfer to the bed with these wheelchairs.
• When a person sits on reclining chairs with elevating leg rests, this helps in alleviating hypotension problem.

Both standard and reclining bariatric wheelchairs are easy to purchase from the online marketplace at cost-effective rates. You can even consider taking these wheelchairs on rent both for long term and short duration.