{"id":2857,"date":"2007-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t857b27|5"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:32:39","slug":"tip-toilet-seat-modification-of-ordinary-wheelchair-857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-toilet-seat-modification-of-ordinary-wheelchair-857","title":{"rendered":"Toilet seat &#8211; modification of ordinary wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/DSC03543_Heidi_rullstolToa_1.jpg\" alt=\"Wheelchair with round hole in the seat \" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hole was cut from the wheelchair seat.<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">This modification makes it easy to deal with bathroom visits when the user travels.<\/p>\n<p>A round opening was made in the seat (under the cushion) of the user&#8217;s wheelchair. A plate of the same material as the wheelchair seat is attached with Velcro straps over the opening (see photo below), but this is more for &#8220;cosmetic&#8221; purposes and is only used to prevent the hole from being seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkom\"><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nWorks when it is necessary to drain the bladder outdoors in nature, in inaccessible environments, behind a bush, over a &#8220;standing toilet,&#8221; or indoors with a bucket under the chair. When she is outdoors the side support also provides some privacy.<\/p>\n<p>She has had great use for this solution on many trips abroad or when visiting friends in their vacation home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tilv\"><strong>Made by<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistive device center<\/p>\n<p class=\"idea\"><strong>Whose idea<\/strong><br \/>\nThe user received a tip about this wheelchair seat and the modification is a copy of it.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/DSC03548_Heidi_rullstolToa_2.jpg\" alt=\"A cover of fabric, the same size as the wheelchair seat, is placed on the wheelchair\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cover can be attached on top of the hole<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/DSC03552_Heidi_rullstolToa_4.jpg\" alt=\"Opening in the wheelchair seat from below\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modification and opening from below<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toilet seat &#8211; customized wheelchair seat, facilitates bathroom visits when traveling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":51547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[372,319],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-about-self-care-on-trips-72","category-tips-about-toileting-19","tag-authors_v6","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/DSC03543_Heidi_rullstolToa_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252808,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/252808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}