Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels.

[Irene Sans] and [Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes] feel that electric wheelchairs are still too expensive. On top of that, as each person’s needs are a little different, usually don’t exactly fit the ...

The young woman told the Irish Mirror: “I’ve been without power for almost a week. It’s absolute torture. I use a manual wheelchair and an electric one, I go between both of them.

In your own terms, can you explain the main distinctions between electric and manual wheelchairs? The motorized wheelchairs operate through batteries and motors to enable the push chair to be ...