{"id":3546,"date":"2016-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t1546b115|6"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:57:32","slug":"tip-smart-drive-power-assist-device-1546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-smart-drive-power-assist-device-1546","title":{"rendered":"Smart Drive power assist device"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1546_115_drive1_600.jpg\" alt=\"The Smart Drive drive unit is located at the rear of the wheelchair between the two rear wheels and is connected to the rear axle of the wheelchair.\" width=\"600\" height=\"572\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smart Drive<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">The power assist device has a handle and can be easily hooked into a clamp attached to the rear axle of the wheelchair. An \u201c&#8217;intelligent\u201d wristband is included that communicates with the Smart Drive and senses the user\u2019s movements and knows when the user is ready to stop or to drive. When the user pushes the push rims, the devices provides a power assist force equivalent to the force the user applies to the push rim. The harder the user pushes, the faster the wheelchair goes. The power assist continues to push until the user brakes by making a sharp movement with the wristband.<\/p>\n<p>Model: Smart Drive MX2<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-_hgHJdnu4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youtube.com\/watch<\/a> (last checked April 2021)<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkom\"><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nSmart Drive is a great assistive device especially for people who have shoulder problems. The same wheelchair technique is used when using the wheelchair as without the power assist and it does not affect driving performance. Good wheelchair technique is important to be able to use Smart Drive. If the user is unable to quickly lift the front wheels, the wheelchair can easily come to a dead stop.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Drive can be combined with Freewheel, see <a href=\"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-extra-wheelchair-wheel-freewheel-1356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-extra-wheelchair-wheel-freewheel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Inkopstallet\"><strong>Purchased from<\/strong><br \/>\nPermobil, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permobil.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permobil.com<\/a> (last checked April 2021).<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1546_115_drive2_600.jpg\" alt=\"User from behind with Smart Drive attached to wheelchair\" width=\"502\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User with Smart Drive attached to 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\/2016\/03\/1546_115_drive3_600.jpg\" alt=\"Smart Drive power assist devicewith wheels and handle\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smart Drive power assist device<\/p><\/div><figcaption>Smart Drive power assist device<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1546_115_drive4_600.jpg\" alt=\"Wristband\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intelligent &#8216; wristband<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy-to-manage power assist device for manual wheelchairs that facilitates driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":54677,"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":[310],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-3546","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_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1546_115_drive1_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253848,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/253848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}