Anti-Tip Devices

There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with feeling a wheelchair’s front casters lift off the ground. It happens in a heartbeat — over a kerb, up a driveway slope, or when someone leans back to reach something on a high shelf — and it’s precisely the moment anti-tippers for outdoor wheelchair use earn … Read more

A wheelchair tipping backwards over a kerb sounds like a small thing, right up until it happens to someone you love. It usually takes half a second — a wheel catches a lip in the pavement, the front castors lift, and suddenly a routine trip to the shops becomes a trip to A&E. That’s the … Read more

Nobody buys a rear anti-tip bar for manual wheelchair use because it sounds exciting. You buy one because somewhere between the front door and the bus stop, you had a moment — a steep driveway, a hill that fought back, a carer who leaned the chair a fraction too far — where the whole world … Read more

Wheelchair anti-tippers vs anti-tip bars is one of those phrases that sounds like it should have one obvious answer, and then you spend twenty minutes scrolling forums at midnight discovering it very much doesn’t. Here’s the short version: they’re the same family of safety device — small stabilising wheels or bars fitted low at the … Read more

A wheelchair feels rock solid on a flat kitchen floor. Tip it back half an inch on a driveway slope, though, and that same chair can behave like a see-saw with a person sitting on the wrong end. That’s the entire reason anti-tip bars for wheelchair setups exist. Anti-tip bars for wheelchair users are small … Read more