Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels.

[Irene Sans] and [Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes] feel that electric wheelchairs are still too expensive. On top of that, as each person’s needs are a little different, usually don’t exactly fit the ...

Using technology from Yamaha’s PAS electrically power-assisted bicycles, these power-assisted wheelchair products respond to force applied by the user to the main wheel hand rims to apply a ...

The 5th grader has been in a wheelchair his whole life. This past Christmas, his grandparents in Cleveland upgraded him to an electric one. “I needed this, because I’d been pushing ...

Wheelchairs, which facilitate the mobility of the elderly and persons with disabilities, are broadly divided into manual and electrically powered types. Yamaha Motor’s Joy Wheel (JW) series, which ...

Canton police officers came to the rescue Monday of a wheelchair-bound man having trouble making it his bus stop.

A disability snooker player has been given the green light to take his electric wheelchair on an aeroplane, allowing him to ...

On another trip I spent an entire day in Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport waiting for the airline to locate my “misplaced” chair.

The electric wheelchair will set the standard by providing users with ... we are a community that values independence and ...