With the development of society, not only with people with disabilities but also with the increasing severity of aging, many older adults have started to choose wheelchairs as their daily means of transportation. As we all know, the wheelchairs on the market now are divided into lightweight electric wheelchairs and manual wheelchairs, so which one is safer and more convenient? The following article will take you to understand in detail.

Manual wheelchairs. As the name implies, manual wheelchairs require human power to drive them, and the previous manual wheelchairs often required an escort to move them. Manual wheelchairs are generally composed of seven parts: pushers, wheelchair frames, wheels, brakes, anti-backward device, seat backrest, and footrest. With later development, it slowly turned into a hand-crank wheelchair (i.e., adding a hand-crank drive handle to a manual wheelchair), which can be turned by both hands. When both hands are turned synchronously, it can realize straight forward or backward, and the differential drive can realize the steering of the wheelchair.

The manual wheelchair did provide a lot of convenience for people with recommended inconvenience in those days. Still, it required the assistance of others to move forward or the patient himself to turn the drive handle, and it is no exaggeration to say that it took two hours and one hand to travel one kilometer. Most of the people who use wheelchairs are older adults, and the elderly themselves have limited legs, body functions are not as good as young people, physical strength is not good, really let them shake a day, really can not stand. So this is not very realistic for the elderly.

Secondly, although the manual wheelchair is equipped with an anti-tilt device, and the manual wheelchair with a handbrake, encountering a slightly steep slope, it is difficult to have time to handbrake, so there are certain safety risks.

But the manual wheelchair is light, easy to carry, and cheap also has its advantages!

Lightweight electric wheelchair. It is based on the traditional manual wheelchair, retrofitted with motors, controllers, electromagnetic brakes, batteries, and other components, transformed and upgraded.

The motor is the power-driving device of the lightweight electric wheelchair, and it now uses two kinds of motors: a brush motor and a brushless motor. Various advantages, brush motors need to replace the carbon brushes regularly, but driving inertia is small. Brushless motors do not require regular replacement of carbon brushes, but because the speed is faster, the inertia will be larger, and there will be no noise when driving.

In comparison, the lightweight electric wheelchair is later an upgraded version of the former, and it will certainly be safer and more convenient, especially with the addition of electromagnetic brakes, which greatly improves the safety performance of the electric wheelchair.

Manual wheelchairs are suitable for general conditions and short-term mobility problems, not long-term use. Lightweight electric wheelchairs will have a wider range of applications, and as long as their cognitive ability is good, electric wheelchairs are the best choice.

I believe that shortly wheelchairs will continue to revolutionize and become more practical in serving friends who need them in the light. Still, for now, electric wheelchairs will be more applicable. If you need more detailed information, welcome to contact us!