Manual Wheelchairs - World Health Organization

108 I guIdelInes on the provIsIon of manual wheelchaIrs In less resourced settIngs
Generic management training (for example, personnel and budget management) and generic
workshop training (for example, tools and machinery, workshop safety, quality control and stock
management) are not included in the modules.
Module 1. Users, wheelchairs and services for referral personnel
Recommended content: users; wheelchairs; impairments; wheelchair-related health issues; general
wheelchair service provision; wheelchair provision in the trainee’s local area.
Module 2. Users, wheelchairs and services for managers
Recommended content: needs of users; wheelchairs; wheelchair service overview; wheelchair service
costing and funding; wheelchair service personnel and facilities; wheelchair service promotion;
service monitoring and evaluation; waiting list management.
Module 3. Users, wheelchairs and services
Recommended content: introduction to users; impairments; posture; introduction to wheelchairs;
introduction to cushions; introduction to wheelchair mobility; referral network; introduction to
assessment, prescription, fitting, user training, follow-up, repairs and maintenance; introduction
to service evaluation.
Module 4. Services for clinicians – I
Recommended content: benefits and dangers of different postures; assessment and prescription;
fitting; follow-up; quality checking; service evaluation.
Module 5. Services for technicians
Recommended content: assessment and prescription; wheelchair assembly; fitting; follow-up; repairs
and maintenance; quality checking; service evaluation.
Module 6. Health care – I
Recommended content: health care issues, focusing on hygiene and preventing pressure sores.
Module 7. Training skills
Recommended content: presentation skills.
Module 8. User training – I
Recommended content: basic wheelchair mobility and transfers; self health care; wheelchair handling
and maintenance; adaptations to environments.
Module 9. User training – II
Recommended content: advanced wheelchair mobility and transfers.
Module 10. Health care – II
Recommended content: health care issues, focusing on care, management and rehabilitation.
Module 11. Users, wheelchairs and services – II
Recommended content: users; impairments; human anatomy; normal and abnormal postures;
wheelchair types and components; wheelchair cushions; wheelchair mobility; referral network;
training of referral personnel; methods of service evaluation.