1. Position the wheelchair 45 degrees from the person's feet.
2. Position your left feet in between the person's legs.
3. Pivot toward your right.
4. Let the person lean on you and instruct her to take hold of the wheelchair's arm rest.
5. Then let her sit down slowly to avoid hitting her buttocks or back with the arm rest.
6. With the advent of assistive devices like handles, boards and automated wheelchair lifts, it becomes easier to transfer from the wheelchair to the bed or chair and vice versa.
With the proper assistive devices, a much faster transfer is facilitated. It is important to note not that you should initially do these steps without a trained professional. It sometimes takes practice before someone can actually master the techniques.
Questions and Answers
It is best that you turn your back from the ramp and walk backwards. This will make sure that you are not putting the person on the wheelchair at risk of diving forward if you are simply pushing the wheelchair down. You pulling it backwards will somewhat reduce the pull of gravity and it would not make the wheelchair roll down uncontrollably.
Typically, pushing the wheelchair into the elevator when you're entering and stepping out and pulling the wheelchair out of the elevator when you're exiting is the easiest method.
When entering the elevator with a patient in a wheelchair (with myasthenia gravis) should you push the wheelchair into the elevator or step into it backwards? Also, when entering an automatic/electric glass door do you push through the doorway or pull them through the doorway?
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