| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve poor blood circulation of a foot, swelling of a foot, contracture of an ankle, and the like caused by a footrest installed in a conventional wheelchair, because the footrest only has a function of placing a foot on a stationary foot placing plate 2 which, in riding on a wheelchair for a long time, has no room for the placed foot to move.SOLUTION: For solving foregoing problems, for the purpose of providing moving stimulus for a stationary foot sometimes during the ride on a wheelchair, a movable footrest plate 5 having a function movable with a motive force is newly added to the stationary footrest plate 2 of a conventional wheelchair having only a function of placing a foot. By making a "combined footrest plate" in which the new and conventional two footrest plates are combined, when a rider of the wheelchair turns on a switch, only the movable footrest plate 5 side moves. With the stimulus thereby transmitted from the sole to the muscles and joints, the foot is relaxed, thus making the footrest of the wheelchair also useful for activation of the foot. |
