{"id":3489,"date":"2015-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t1489b109|6"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:23:20","slug":"tip-beach-wheelchair-1489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-beach-wheelchair-1489","title":{"rendered":"Beach Wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1489_109_1a_600.jpg\" alt=\"User in a beach wheelchair with four large wide wheels\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User on beach wheelchair. Photo from the tipster\u2019s archives<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">Wheelchair with wide wheels can be driven on the beach without sinking into the sand and tolerates chlorine and salt water.<\/p>\n<p>Various models of beach wheelchairs can be rented at some beaches in Sweden, such as Halmstad\u2019s Handikappbad \u00d6stra Strand and Stora Sk\u00f6ndalsbadet in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkom\"><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are many different models of beach wheelchairs, see photos below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rkom\"><strong>Editors comments<\/strong><br \/>\nOne model is the Hippocampe from Vipamat, which is foldable and can be taken along when traveling on vacation. The Hippocampe is also available with a skid solution for use in winter see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vipamat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vipamat.com<\/a> (last checked Nov 2024).<\/p>\n<p>The wheelchair in photo far below has pontoons and can float in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is &#8216;Freedom Trax&#8217;, se\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomtrax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/freedomtrax.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 (last checked Nov 2024).<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1489_109_2.jpg\" alt=\"A wheelchair with a large wide front wheel. The footrest is designed so that the legs are stretched forward and the front wheel is in front of the feet.\" width=\"388\" height=\"368\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hippocampe beach wheelchair. Photo from www.mincrosser.se<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1489_109_1.jpg\" alt=\"A wheelchair with three large wide wheels, the front wheel is far forward and the armrests are floating pontoons. \" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach wheelchair with floating pontoons, Alvar beach, Portugal. Photo from takeventure.se<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wheelchair that works on sand and in water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":54391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"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":[310,444],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-about-moving-around-by-wheelchair-10","category-tips-about-swimming-144","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\/2015\/09\/1489_109_1a_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254086,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/254086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}