A Guide to Wheelchair Selection: How to Use the Ansi/Resna Wheelchair Standards to Buy a Wheelchair

A Guide to Wheelchair Selection: How to Use the ANSI/RESNA Wheelchair Standards to Buy a Wheelchair is designed to help consumers make better educated decisions when purchasing a manual or powered wheelchair. The guide clearly explains how to use the ANSI/RESNA Wheelchair Standard test results to compare the characteristics and performance of both manual and powered wheelchairs. This publication is also useful, in combination with the Manual and Powered Wheelchair Training Guide's, as a textbook for Occupational and Physical Therapy programs. Future therapists, with the help of this publication, will be able to help their patients choose the appropriate wheelchair that will meet all of his or her needs. Funding to write this book was provided by the Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation.