Rowheel wheelchair is pulled to move forward
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wheelchairs have a basic problem because the occupant must push the wheels forward to turn the chairs wheels, but this action is physically stressful on the anterior deltoid muscles in the shoulder and the triceps and flexor carpi muscles in the arms. Using these smaller and relatively weak muscles can result in muscle and joint pain and degredation, torn rotor cuffs, repetitive stress injury, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Now a new wheelchair, the Rowheel System, uses the much more natural pulling (rowing) motion to move the chair forward.