Flexible cushions for wheelchair users

Abstract

For many wheelchair users, pressure sores are an unavoidable chronic physical disorder. As well as healing wounds, preventing the disease is a vital issue, and the wheelchair cushion is one of the most important aids for taking care of the sore. However, the wheelchair cushions and other cushions to support physically disabled people of today ’ s market still have many problems. Due to hygiene issues and prevention of the sore, it is important to change the where one sits down, as well as to change and wash the cushion frequently. Wheelchair users must continue to sit on the cushion for a long time even if it the cushion has many problems, since ordinary sofas and chairs do not give enough support. I defined that the wheelchair, sofa and car/airplane seats are the most important places for wheelchair users to enjoy a more active life and thus created new types of cushions to alleviate the problems encountered in these areas.