The Last One

you obviously didnt look in the rec building... it is a vast wheelchair graveyard with wheelchairs of every kind!

Mr. Motts, you must go back there and find that wheelchair graveyard, you do know this.

its a real cool wheelchair though motts :-)

What a weird wheel chair! It looks so tall and gangly...like an awkward kid hitting puberty...or something of the sort.
..That or an old wheel chair. ;)
I wonder what type of patients would have been found in these chairs?

It's a stripped down tilt-in-space reclining wheelchair for people with more extensive physical disabilities, like cerebral palsy. The arm rests, foot rests, and seat have been pulled off.
http://www.henleymedical.com/manual.htm (bottom chair)
http://www.spinlife.com/critpath/match.cfm?categoryID=156 (all 5)

Someone who had lost or never had the strength to hold one's head upright or One that would have no ability to move anything from the neck down, hence the odfd shaped pillow to stabilize the head.

Lynne, you could be an abandoned hospitals tour guide!

Motts, you never had problems with other visitors ? (Sorry for the translation. I use a tradcutor..)

I've never seen a wheelchair like that before.

Max - I've worked in 5 different institutions across the country and have toured many, many others. I've done this so long (billions and billions of years . . . <G>) that the layouts start to look familiar, as I am sure that Motts and MaDMaN and Radical Ed et al. could tell you. However, I get to work in them while they are still "alive" and you get to know the reasons the specific rooms were used, what types of equipment would be used, etc. Right now I am lucky in that the place I work is half used and half locked up and unused, so I have the luck of talking to people who worked in the buildings while they were still active and get to learn what happened, when, and sometimes why. That's why this site fascinates me so much.
Other than Motts' excellent photography, of course!

Motts, even not with vendales or tramps ?

Ok thank you. Good luck for the continuation!

I was gonna say, was that a wheelchair just for torsos or something? You can see what Lynne is talking about, though...if you look close you can make out where the rest of the attachments were supposed to go, I think.

~Me: I once knew a guy who had lost movement from the neck down. He had a good sense of humor about it, but there were a few things he really missed being able to do... It didn't help that he had pretty hot nurses too!

that looks like a tortue device

that looks like a tortue device

It would be worse torture without it. A person with severe CP would just fall sideways without it.

There was a kid in my elementry school who sometimes got pushed around in a device similar to this, though he usually used a regular wheelchair.

i'll have to remember to checkout the rec room when i go.

just imagine if one of you end up in this some day......................................................

This chair was for 1 sick person, cerebral palsy

My great cousin was sent to paul dever after his parents died.... He was fully aware of his surroundings although He was unable to walk or talk due to cerebral palsy. However he could understand anything and still does to this day. He answers you yes by blinking and answers no by moving his eyes back and fourth. luckly he was taling out of P>D. and now lives in a group home.

what an odd contraption. O.o

Amanda what did he tell you?

I absolutely love Paul A Dever School. I go there once a year. :p

My friends and I were in there last night and we saw quite a few wheel chairs. They were in the tunnels, at least 3, and we saw one out of a random door leading outside. It was just sitting in the rain.

go in the tunnels theres more wheel chears there

ur right, sacrifice!

many of the wheelchairs in the tunnels are taken by neighborhood kids. but in the rec room, its a chair goldmine.

all the wheelchairs are in the prep shop.

http://www.facebook.co...62759220&theater;
i have a bunch of pics from there.

I live under an hour from this place. Maybe i'll take a ride down there sometime