The cross-braced wheelchair remained the standard for a number of years.
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Power wheelchairs began in the 1940’s as standard cross-brace folding manual wheelchairs adapted with automobile starter motors and an automobile battery. Power wheelchairs provide greater independence to thousands of people with severe mobility impairments. Powered mobility can have tremendous positive psycho-social effects on an individual. Mobility is more of a functional limitation than a disability related condition. Just as among the ambulatory population, mobility among people with disabilities varies. These wheelchairs were designed to provide the veteran some mobility within the hospital and home, and not to optimize ergonomic variables. Veterans medical centers issued these veterans steel framed wheelchairs with 18 inch seat widths. Following World War II, medical advances saved the lives of many veterans with spinal cord injuries or lower limb amputations, who would have otherwise died. Within a few years, they formed a company Everest & Jennings to manufacture wheelchairs. He worked with a fellow engineer Jennings to develop steel wheelchairs. In the 1930s a young mining engineer, named Everest experienced an accident that left him mobility impaired. Roosevelt was not satisfied with the wooden wheelchair and had many common metal kitchen chairs modified with wheels. This type of chair remained the standard until the 1930s. Later the wooden wheelchair with wicker matting was developed. This enabled movement, with assistance, indoors. Wheelchairs were overstuffed arm chairs with wheels placed upon them. During the renaissance, the French court popularized the first wheelchairs. Because wheelbarrows were used to transport materials, during this period in history, people with disabilities were looked upon as outcasts from society. Later the wheelbarrow was developed and soon became a common mode of transportation for people with disabilities. This was the preferred means of transportation of the upper class and thus carried no stigma.
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