Sunday, August 23, 2009

How A Battery Mobility Scooter Will Give You Freedom

By Kevin Jones

If you have a mobility problem you may find that you feel restricted by a manual wheelchair. If you do not have the energy to propel yourself then you will have to rely on someone else to push you and crave some independence, this is where a battery mobility scooter can help you. As the scooter is propelled by battery power there is no need to give yourself arm ache pushing the chair or having to take someone with you everywhere you go. The scooter will allow you to get to places that have not been accessible before and help you to tackle steeper hills with the minimum of effort.

The wide range of battery mobility scooters available means that there will be something to meet the needs of any wheelchair user, they also come in a variety of colours and shades so you can choose one to suit your personality. Most of the scooters have a basket fixed to the front which will allow the user to have the freedom to go solo when they wish to shop as well as carry the items they have bought withing eyesight the whole journey.

As the scooters are thinner in size than most manual chairs they are able to fit down small aisles that would have previously been restrictive and meant that the user would have had to ask for help.

This way the user would not have to worry about having to struggle to get into the limited space provided at most check outs in supermarkets, as well as not having to pay the extra fees they would have before hand to get shopping delivered.

The people who make the scooters have started to listen more to people who have mobility problems and have become aware that as a lot of people with mobility problems do not have the ability to exercise that sometimes weight has been an issue when looking to get a chair or battery mobility scooter. This has all changed and chairs have been designed now to carry a passenger weighing over 30 stone. The chairs have also been made a lot wider so that anyone can sit comfortably for a lot longer than before.

The lights that are now fitted to the modern scooters allow people to go out no matter whether it is the sun or moon that is lighting the streets, and means that going out on the scooter when it is darker outside is much safer. Anyone who has gone from using a manual wheelchair before getting a battery powered one will be able to tell you that they have not they have not gone back.

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