Wheelchair users find it near-impossible to find accessible scales and keep check of their weight.
Dr Georgie Budd, a GP and wheelchair user, says weight is an important measurement for people to have access toWeight management is a sensitive topic. Nevertheless, the measurement is often used as a marker to inform medical decisions or for someone's personal interest. But for many wheelchair users, accessing scales has proved near impossible.. "I think I was about 15."
It involves "sitting down really quickly, lifting my feet up, which is like a ridiculous yoga pose, and trying to balance," Lizzie says. Unsurprisingly, the reading is never accurate.There is equipment out there to help wheelchair users, like Lizzie. Chair scales enable someone to sit on a seat which records their weight and there are similar bed and hoist versions too. There are also wheel-on scales which are very large and involve subtracting the weight of the chair afterwards.
Although people can keep across their weight by feeling how their clothes fit, Georgie says this can be inaccurate, especially when clothes are rarely tailored with wheelchair users in mind."You're not using your big leg muscles anymore so you're not burning as many calories and access to actually exercising as a disabled person is less than I would like it to be."Gillian Morphy knows about that.
More generally, there seems to be little information out there on how Gillian, Lizzie and their medical teams can measure weight and access scales. Lizzie's healthcare trust - Devon Integrated Care Board, which covers Devon, Torbay and Plymouth - says it does have equipment which enables weight to be measured "safely and with dignity". But Lizzie is yet to have been offered the use of it.
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