Owning one of the best electric wheelchairs can make a huge difference in a person's day to day. Designed to help those who have difficulty walking, these motor-based chairs tend to have a variety of ...

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. But even a ...

This electric wheelchair series is designed for in-home and outdoor use and is full of tech aimed at the user experience; ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --A British man who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2013 broke a Guinness World Record when he took his prototype electric wheelchair to a top speed of 66.826 mph. Jason ...

While enabling independent mobility for many people with motor impairments related to disease or injury, the power wheelchair is overly burdensome or entirely inaccessible for millions with limited ...

Anyone has ever had to spend a day in a wheelchair can attest to how painstakingly difficult it is to get around with it, especially on an uphill slope — a journey that might leave one with aching ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

CANASTOTA -- The tournament had all of the energy and enthusiasm one would image seeing at any soccer match, with one exception - the athletes used power wheelchairs instead of their feet and legs to ...

The Firefly by Rio Mobility is an electric motor that attaches to a wheelchair. It allows people to reach speeds of 12 mph without switching to a traditional power chair. Story and editing by Carl ...