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From: Debbie.Mandel@p1.f15.n233.z1.fidonet.org (Debbie Mandel)
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Subject: Wheelchair "wheelies"
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Date: 22 Mar 90 19:42:56 GMT
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In a message of < 7 Mar 90 13:53:05>, Michael Merrow (1:141/420) writes:

 >There's almost no risk of me tipping over sideways, as with a regular 
 >chair and forward and backward tipping are controllable because of the 
 >fact that I am able to move the chair itself along the ground to 
 >compensate for the my own lack of balance.
 > 
 >Michael

When I used to work in a rehab facility (a long time ago), we had a chair  
with a folding thing on the back with little wheels that you could pull out.
That way, the person could practice wheelies as much as they wanted until  
they got the balance point right.  If they went over too far, the thing on  
the back would catch them and there would be no danger.  I had one guy (I  
think his injury was somewhere around T-1, and he was wearing a brace at the  
time), who used it for about two weeks and never needed it again.

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