Floor To Wheelchair Transfer Techniques

Push up to get both feet on the floor.

Floor to wheelchair transfer techniques.

Hold onto the chair at all times. Scoot to the edge of your chair. If you have a wheelchair and the armrests can be removed then you can use a wheelchair transfer technique to lift your loved one off the floor as seen in the video below. You can progress towards placing your hands on the floor when you have mastered transfer from standing to high kneeling and return to standing.

I m not gonna lie i m pretty proud of this moment this is arguably the hardest transfer for someone who is paraplegic this is the first time i have been able to do the floor to chair transfer on. Floor transfers jesi recommends putting on shoes before doing a floor transfer to give yourself more stability. Bring your other knee down. Put your feet on floor unless your therapist tells you not to.

Raise onto knees by propping hands on chair. Floor transfer instructions page 2 7. 2 person assist technique shown is a squat pivot one caregiver in front one behind allows for closer proximity of chair best done into a wheelchair or chair where armrest can be removed caregiver in front shifts his her body weight backward. Work to get a knee up with the foot flat 8.

Learn how to transfer from your wheelchair down to the floor and b. When returning up from kneeling lean your weight over arms and push up with stronger leg. The first transfer technique jesi demonstrates is transferring to a couch and then transferring to your wheelchair. Bed chair transfer.

Jump to 2 50 in video. This video explains how i transfer from my wheelchair to the floor and back up. Get your arm rest out of the way on the side next to the surface you are transferring to. Bend your back knee down to the floor.

I am a t1 complete paraplegic. Carefully begin to turn in order to sit on the chair.