How Portable Is Your Wheelchair Ramp?
It's a good thing that wheelchair ramps last a long time, but depending on how long you have owned your ramp, you may have missed a few innovations in the time since your purchase.
Wheelchair ramps are always evolving as owners and manufacturers dream up new ways to improve them.
What may have been the best, most compact ramp five years ago may have been outranked many times over by now.
Is your wheelchair ramp the most portable option available? Keep reading to compare.
Modern Wheelchair Ramps and Their Advantages Folding wheelchair ramps have been around a long time, but every day they're getting better.
The traditional bi-folding ramps are getting lighter and lighter.
If you haven't checked out the newest ramps available, you might be missing some of the new composite materials that have made the equipment lighter and stronger.
They are the same size as older bi-fold ramps but the lightness really does matter.
Some ramps come in multiple pieces that, when fit together, provide just as much strength as a solid ramp.
The two-piece ramps will often come apart in the middle and you would fold each track like a regular bi-fold.
This allows you to use a much longer ramp and only have two pieces to carry that are each half the weight of a standard ramp.
Nice and easy, right? Multi-fold ramps are a little different.
They will fold multiple times (sometimes three or four ways) and some of them have a handle for easy transport.
Telescoping ramps are the most fascinating - they've been around for a while, but are just now getting to be lightweight and easy to carry.
Telescoping ramps collapse into themselves and some of the models available today are very long.
The only problem is that you'll have to measure the fully collapsed length because many still fail to fit in the trunk of a vehicle.
Roll-up ramps are another type of portable ramp and you'll have to see one to believe it.
Just type "roll-up wheelchair ramp" into any search engine to see what they look like.
The entire ramp is made of flexible sections so you can roll it up just like a rug, or a poster.
They are one of the newest types of portable ramps, and they are not perfect, so you'll definitely want to try a few out in person before purchasing one.
So how portable is your wheelchair ramp compared to the ones listed? If you're looking for something better and stronger, make sure to let your favorite mobility supplies company know about your search - ramp strength and portability are getting better every single day and your favorite retailer should have instructions to call you as soon as something more advanced hits their catalogues.
You'll be doing the retailer a favor and they'll be doing you a major favor by looking out for products they otherwise would never carry.
Wheelchair ramps are always evolving as owners and manufacturers dream up new ways to improve them.
What may have been the best, most compact ramp five years ago may have been outranked many times over by now.
Is your wheelchair ramp the most portable option available? Keep reading to compare.
Modern Wheelchair Ramps and Their Advantages Folding wheelchair ramps have been around a long time, but every day they're getting better.
The traditional bi-folding ramps are getting lighter and lighter.
If you haven't checked out the newest ramps available, you might be missing some of the new composite materials that have made the equipment lighter and stronger.
They are the same size as older bi-fold ramps but the lightness really does matter.
Some ramps come in multiple pieces that, when fit together, provide just as much strength as a solid ramp.
The two-piece ramps will often come apart in the middle and you would fold each track like a regular bi-fold.
This allows you to use a much longer ramp and only have two pieces to carry that are each half the weight of a standard ramp.
Nice and easy, right? Multi-fold ramps are a little different.
They will fold multiple times (sometimes three or four ways) and some of them have a handle for easy transport.
Telescoping ramps are the most fascinating - they've been around for a while, but are just now getting to be lightweight and easy to carry.
Telescoping ramps collapse into themselves and some of the models available today are very long.
The only problem is that you'll have to measure the fully collapsed length because many still fail to fit in the trunk of a vehicle.
Roll-up ramps are another type of portable ramp and you'll have to see one to believe it.
Just type "roll-up wheelchair ramp" into any search engine to see what they look like.
The entire ramp is made of flexible sections so you can roll it up just like a rug, or a poster.
They are one of the newest types of portable ramps, and they are not perfect, so you'll definitely want to try a few out in person before purchasing one.
So how portable is your wheelchair ramp compared to the ones listed? If you're looking for something better and stronger, make sure to let your favorite mobility supplies company know about your search - ramp strength and portability are getting better every single day and your favorite retailer should have instructions to call you as soon as something more advanced hits their catalogues.
You'll be doing the retailer a favor and they'll be doing you a major favor by looking out for products they otherwise would never carry.