I have to wear my chest strap/shoulder strap everyone down but I have a Permobile. The back of the chair is completely different than mine other chair and I always feel as if I am going to fall forward.
I seem to lean back further than I did in my other chair, but I feel as if I am leaning forward. I think it has to do with the position of the back of the seat. I was in a Labac (spelling) for 15 years and the back of the seat is lower than the front, so you don't even realize that your sitting tilted. It's a much better seating system, but not as durable as the Permobile. Quadius On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:09 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > I seem to have gotten much more tippy as I've gotten older. > I use to drive my chair out and about as fast as I could go, sitting up > straight, with no chest strap. I would accidentally fall forward onto my lap > and not be able to sit back up once every year or so. But over the years it > has really gotten bad. I have to tilt my chair back quite a bit every time I > do anything so I don't fall forward. All I have to do is move my arms > forward to type or brush my teeth and I fall forward. I don't dare go out by > myself without my chest strap on. Just hitting a bump going out my door can > make me tip forward. Once I'm tipped, I can't get back up. If my chair is in > tilt mode I can use the joystick to tilt back and then rock myself up. I > tried getting an extra set of tilt switches put on the front of my chair to > use if I fell forward, but the repair shop said this system can only use the > joystick and 1 set of buttons to control the tilt/recline/seat/legrest > options. I use a 4 button switch on my lateral support to control > everything. > Anyone else get so tippy after 25 years. Greg > >
