{"id":3356,"date":"2012-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t1356b86|5"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:52:29","slug":"tip-extra-wheelchair-wheel-freewheel-1356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-extra-wheelchair-wheel-freewheel-1356","title":{"rendered":"Extra wheelchair wheel, &#8216;Freewheel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1356_86_hjul1_600.jpg\" alt=\"The user outdoors with Freewheel attached to wheelchair\" width=\"600\" height=\"579\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The user ourtdoors with Freewheel attached to wheelchair<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">Freewheel is an accessory for manual wheelchairs that the user can easily mount on the wheelchair footrests. The wheelchair castor wheels are lifted above the ground as soon as the Freewheel is connected. The Freewheel extends the length of the wheelchair by 46 cm.<br \/>\nThe Freewheel is small and easy to bring along when it is not being used. There is a bracket on which to hang Freewheel on the wheelchair back, when it is not in use. See also Panthera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthera.se\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panthera.se\/index_en<\/a> (last checked June 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nThe user is very pleased with the Freewheel and always uses it outdoors. It is possible to bent forward and push off without the fronwheels pushing the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong><br \/>\nFreewheel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofreewheel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gofreewheel.com<\/a> (last checked June 2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchased from<\/strong><br \/>\nFreewheel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofreewheel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gofreewheel.com<\/a> or in Sweden Panthera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthera.se\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panthera.se\/index_en<\/a> (last checked June 2021)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Bekostad\"><strong>Paid for by<\/strong><br \/>\nThe user<\/p>\n<p class=\"idea\"><strong>Whose idea<\/strong><br \/>\nPat Dougherty, USA<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1356_86_hjul2_600.jpg\" alt=\"User with Freewheel attached to his wheelchair (close-up)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User with Freewheel attached to his wheelchair<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1356_86_hjul3_600.jpg\" alt=\"Attachment of Freewheel on wheelchair footrest\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attachment of Freewheel on wheelchair footrest<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1356_86_hjul4_600.jpg\" alt=\"The user with the disconnected Freewheel on his knees\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freewheel disconnected from wheelchair<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freewheel increases accessibility on uneven surfaces for people who use manual wheelchairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":53721,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[310],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-about-moving-around-by-wheelchair-10","tag-authors_v6","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1356_86_hjul1_600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252844,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/252844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}