PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair which can quickly move in a place with rubble, level differences, and the like as well as in ordinary moving, and also to provide members for improving a regular wheelchair to such a wheelchair.SOLUTION: In a wheelchair 1 of the present invention, the front direction when a care needed person sits down is made a forward direction, with the rear direction made a backward direction, and with the lateral direction in facing the front direction made a width direction. In this state, a pair of grip bars 21, 21 separated from each other in the width direction are extended backward from backward frames 15, 15. When a caregiver comes in between the pair of grip bars 21, 21, the grip bars 21, 21 are provided with enough length to be extended further backward from the position of the caregiver. As a result, the caregiver can make the wheelchair tractive backward, with the pair of grip bars 21, 21 gripped, which is the characteristic of the invention.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】通常の移動時は勿論、がれきや段差等の存在する場所においても速やかに移動することのできる車椅子、及び通常の車椅子をそのような車椅子に改造するための部材を提供すること。【解決手段】本発明の車椅子1は、被介助者が着座したときの正面側方向を前方とし背面側方向を後方とし、正面側に向かったときの横方向を幅方向としたとき、幅方向に離間した一対の把持棒21、21が後方側フレーム15、15から後方へ延出し、当該一対の把持棒21、21の間に介助者が入ったときに把持棒21、21が介助者の位置よりもさらに後方に延出するだけの十分な長さを備えることにより、上記介助者が一対の把持棒21、21を掴んだ状態で後方に向けて牽引することが可能であることを特徴とする【選択図】図1
