“🦽” meaning: manual wheelchair Emoji

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, problems related to old age, or disability. These can include spinal cord injuries (paraplegia, hemiplegia, and quadriplegia), cerebral palsy, brain injury, osteogenesis imperfecta, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and more. Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as seen with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The most widely recognized distinction is between motorized wheelchairs, where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manual wheelchairs, where the propulsive force is provided either by the wheelchair user/occupant pushing the wheelchair by hand ("self-propelled"), by an attendant pushing from the rear using handle(s), or by an attendant pushing from the side use a handle attachment. 🔗 Wheelchair
🌐: كرسي متحرك, Əlil arabası, হুইল চেয়ার, Invalidní vozík, Kørestol, Rollstuhl, Silla de ruedas, Ratastool, ویلچر, Pyörätuoli, Fauteuil roulant, כיסא גלגלים, पहियाकुर्सी, Kerekesszék, Kursi roda, Sedia a rotelle, 車椅子, 휠체어, Rolstoel, Rullestol, Wózek inwalidzki, Cadeira de rodas, Scaun cu rotile, Инвалидная коляска, Invalidný vozík, Инвалидска колица, Rullstol, วีลแชร์, Tekerlekli sandalye, Інвалідний візок, Xe lăn, 輪椅.