The development of a standing wheelchair.
Paraplegics gain considerable benefit from standing but generally they dislike being stuck in a stationary standing frame. This paper describes a wheelchair which is being developed to enable a paraplegic to bring himself to a standing position and still be mobile. It also enables him to obtain a variety of different sitting positions. A prototype has been built and found to work very well, to be very stable, and easy and pleasing to use although further improvement is necessary before development can be considered complete.
Churchward
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Mechanical and Production Engineering Department, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.