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A modern midwheel-based battery-powered chair.

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A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability.

 

Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users.

 

They may include specialized seating adaptions, individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as seen with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs.

 

The most widely recognized distinction is between powered wheelchairs ("power-chairs"), where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manually propelled wheelchairs, where the propulsive force is provided either by the wheelchair user/occupant pushing the wheelchair by hand ("self-propelled"), or by an attendant pushing from the rear ("attendant propelled").

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Adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia