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WHEELCHAIR SYSTEM [6 records]

Record 1 2018-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Disabled Sports
OBS

Wheelchair Sports Alberta is a registered charitable non-profit association responsible for the development and delivery of provincial level sport programs and services throughout Alberta. WSA works in partnership with local, regional, provincial and national sport organizations and local sport system providers to create a dynamic environment for wheelchair sport participation through inclusion at all levels.

OBS

Goals: To promote opportunities for Albertans in wheelchair sport; to promote awareness and acceptance of wheelchair athletes; to promote inclusion of wheelchair athletes [and to] support all levels of athletes and coaches, from elite national team members to recreational participants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Sports adaptés

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
DEF

The braking system that the driver normally uses to reduce the speed of the wheelchair or stop it completely. [Definition standardized by ISO. ]

OBS

service brake: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
DEF

Système de freinage que le conducteur utilise normalement pour réduire la vitesse du fauteuil roulant ou l'arrêter complètement. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

frein de service : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
DEF

The braking system that is intended for keeping the wheelchair stationary on sloping ground whether or not the wheelchair is occupied. [Definition standardized by ISO. ]

OBS

parking brake: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
DEF

Système de freinage destiné à maintenir le fauteuil roulant, occupé ou pas, immobile sur un sol incliné. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

frein de stationnement : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Institutions
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
CONT

Patients who cannot walk, particularly those with orthopaedic deformities, need more than a simple wheelchair; they require a special seating system. Since the early 1970's many different systems have been introduced to the field of orthotics and prescribed through "Seating Clinics" in many centres in North America and around the world.

OBS

The Hugh MacMillan Medical Centre in Toronto (formerly the Ontario Crippled Children’s Centre) has a seating clinic where orthopaedic body supports are fitted into the wheelchairs of handicapped individuals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements de santé
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
OBS

La majorité des malades sont des enfants (70%) dont 65% de garçons, atteints le plus souvent de paralysie cérébrale (68%) et de dystrophie musculaire (33%). 65% des sièges prescrits ont été (l'«Orthopaedic, Body Supports»).

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
CONT

The objective of this project is to develop a wheelchair tray system to address the multiplicity of features required of a tray that is used for work, play, augmentative communication and for daily living activities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
CONT

Tablette du fauteuil roulant [...]. Cet élément du positionnement en fauteuil roulant permet le transport et la manipulation d'objets, de livres, de jouets ou du tableau de communication non orale.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
  • Hospital Furniture
DEF

[A] system based on one frame which can be used to assemble two or more different types of wheelchair... by changing position of wheels and seats or putting on different wheels and seats, accessories such as one-arm units are excluded.

OBS

ISO code: 12 21 33.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
DEF

Système basé sur un cadre qui peuvent être utilisés pour assembler deux ou plusieurs types différents de fauteuils roulants [...] en changeant la position des roues et des sièges, ou en plaçant des roues et des sièges différents.

OBS

Les accessoires comme les commandes monomanuelles en sont exclus.

OBS

Code ISO : 12 21 33.

Spanish

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