Foot & Leg Positioning

Lightweight Adult & Pediatric Wheelchairs

Addressing positioning and seating needs is essential for optimal positioning in a folding portable wheelchair. Convaid offers a variety of options to better position and support the legs and feet. Positioning the feet and legs correctly will help to improve hip alignment, stabilize sitting posture and increase comfort in a lightweight wheelchair.

Mobility Aid  Foot & Leg Positioning by Model

Some of the options available through Convaid for folding portable wheelchairs and pediatric strollers include elevating legrests, angle adjustable footplates, and foot positioners. These items will:

• Improve balance
• Hold the feet in place on footplate
• Aid those with high tone who lack lower extremity flexion
• Provide passive movement to knee joints
• Help to manage edema
• Provide pressure relief

Elevating legrests change the angle of the leg and feet. This feature is often used in conjunction with tilt and recline options on a lightweight wheelchair to facilitate enhanced respiration and digestion.

Convaid footplates are designed to hold the foot in alignment to promote optimal positioning. Our footplates independently adjust, and swing away for user access and to compactly fold the chair or pediatric stroller.

Foot Positioners comfortably hold the foot in position on the footplate of a Convaid mobility aid. Straps can be positioned to wrap around the ankle or cross over the foot.

Contact us for more information regarding our pediatric wheelchairs, Transport Chairs and other mobility aids. Convaid has a full line of safe, high quality lightweight adult and pediatric wheelchairs available for special needs persons of all ages.