Improving your wheelchair skills will always increase your confidence in a new environment and BackUp have lots of resources and one day courses to help you.
From pushing technique, getting over obstacles and up kerbs, to back wheel balancing and transfers, our manual or power chair sessions. They also run a specific course about wheelchair skills for the city.
“It’s been absolutely amazing and I’ve grown in confidence. My wheelchair skills have increased and I am now able to go out on my own.”
WHEELCHAIR SKILLS courses with back up
Click on the top right corner of the video below to check out the 12 part wheelchair skills tutorials playlist:
Get to grips with you wheelchair
Download the new Back Up Wheelchair Skills App
Over a series of short videos, their new and improved Wheelchair Skills App demonstrates the skills needed to confidently and independently get around in your wheelchair.
BACK UP WHEELCHAIR SKILLS APP
Who is the Back Up Wheelchair Skills App for?
Relevant for people of all ages and spinal cord injury levels. The app is designed to help current inpatients and those recently discharged from hospital. Available on iPhone and Android , you’ll learn essential wheelchair skills on your return home after spinal cord injury.
You can also use the app to refresh and further hone your skills, no matter when you sustained your spinal cord injury.
App features:
> lessons for both power and manual chair users
> different sets of training videos both power and manual chair users
> wheelchair skills videos for people of all ages and injury levels
> videos presented by a diverse range of Back Up staff and volunteers
> ‘Achievement’ badges making it easy for you to see your progress. Once you’ve completed each lesson, you will receive a virtual Back Up Bug! Collect them all to receive the coveted gold bug.
