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Wheelchairs in sentence

22 examples of Wheelchairs in a sentence

There are 68 million people estimated to be in wheelchairs worldwide.
And I was freaked out in the first place because I had heard that there were actually no disabled people using wheelchairs who were teachers in New York, so each step along the way I was expecting something bad.
We transport the wheelchairs everywhere.
I started looking at wheelchairs in developing countries in 2005, when I spent the summer assessing the state of technology in Tanzania, and I talked to wheelchair users, wheelchair manufacturers, disability groups, and what stood out to me is that there wasn't a device available that was designed for rural areas, that could go fast and efficiently on many types of terrain.
Now also being engineering scientists, we were able to quantify the performance benefits of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, so here are some shots of our trial in Guatemala where we tested the LFC on village terrain, and tested people's biomechanical outputs, their oxygen consumption, how fast they go, how much power they're putting out, both in their regular wheelchairs and using the LFC, and we found that the LFC is about 80 percent faster going on these terrains than a normal wheelchair.
I see wheelchairs bought and sold like used cars.
Both of my parents were in wheelchairs at the end of their lives, so I understand very much that struggle.
Now, I bet you're also thinking: "We don't have kinetic cobblestones or flying wheelchairs yet, so what can we do about this problem with today's technology?"
You know, when people in wheelchairs come to school, they usually say, like, inspirational stuff?" (Laughter) "It's usually in the big hall."
He dreamed of a world of empty wheelchairs.
The faithful come in their wheelchairs and crutches, and so on.
Or, can we help the mobility of the aging population by transforming very standard wheelchairs into cool, electric vehicles?
It's a national team of young men who play soccer in wheelchairs.
They use motorized wheelchairs that they drive with a joystick, because they don't have enough strength in their arms to use conventional chairs.
The complex medical diagnoses that bring our young patients to us mean that their lives have often been restricted, some to a hospital bed for long periods of time, others to wheelchairs, still others to intensive courses of chemotherapy or rehab.
And then, well, he pulled all the old ladies out of their wheelchairs."
I held hands with people in wheelchairs, praying to be cured.
The war on talent, the need to attract people at all skill ranges, to push us around in our wheelchairs, but also to drive our economies.
I literally chased down people on the street who were in wheelchairs or if they had walkers or even if they had a slight limp.
Crippled people still require wheelchairs to move, no fancy cures, implants, or robotic legs.
My five-year-old nephew (as most children do) would just stare at people who were in wheelchairs or had some other type of handicap but after he watched Pelswick it just seemed to be a normal occurrence to him.
This work is a bold look into the mindset of men who find themselves in wheelchairs.