Being able to move through doors with ease, especially into and out of your own home, is crucial for any person in a wheelchair. Needing to rely on someone to open a door for you eliminates one of the most basic freedoms humans crave – the freedom to move around at will. That’s why making sure that your home is accessible and set up to allow you to get in and out of doors easily is so crucial if you’re using a wheelchair.

Luc shows how his home is set up with both an automatic front door and special handles on sliding glass doors that he, as a quadriplegic, can open easily. If you have any tips about what works for you in your home we’d love to hear what you have to share too!

Here’s a tip we found on how to modify your bathroom to give greater access to you as a person with a physical disability using a wheelchair.

This is an ingenious idea – use velcro on your wheelchair and on remotes to keep you from dropping the remotes. It really works amazingly well!

If you need a chest strap to hold you upper torso in your wheelchair, you probably know that visually it can be one of the first things people notice when they meet you. In this video, Luc shows us how he is able to hide the chest strap effectively while still keeping it completely functional.