The New Back Up Wheelchair Skills App
Get to grips with you wheelchair – download our new Back Up Wheelchair Skills App.
Over a series of short videos, our new and improved Wheelchair Skills App demonstrates the skills needed to confidently and independently get around in your wheelchair.
2025 will mark twenty years since Back Up first developed and started delivering its vital wheelchair skills training sessions.
Thanks to the Motability Foundation, we have redeveloped and refreshed our wheelchair skills app, so you can practice using a wheelchair wherever you are.
Download for iPhone Download for AndroidWho is our Wheelchair Skills App for?
Relevant for people of all ages and spinal cord injury levels.
Our app is designed to help current inpatients and those recently discharged from hospital.
Available on iPhone and Android , you’ll learn essential wheelchair skills on your return home after spinal cord injury.
You can also use the app to refresh and further hone your skills, no matter when you sustained your spinal cord injury.
The Back Up Wheelchair Skills app features
- lessons for both power and manual chair users
- different sets of training videos both power and manual chair users
- wheelchair skills videos for people of all ages and injury levels
- videos presented by a diverse range of Back Up staff and volunteers
- ‘Achievement’ badges making it easy for you to see your progress. Once you’ve completed each lesson, you will receive a virtual Back Up Bug! Collect them all to receive the coveted gold bug.
Note: If you already have the original app on your Android phone, you will need to delete and download the new version. If you have the original app on your iOS device, you can simply download the updated version.
Share your Wheelchair Skills
Our wheelchair skills can help you boost your confidence in using a wheelchair
We’d love to hear from you and see how you’ve improved!
Share on socials: Upload a video of your new #wheelchairskills and tag us @backuptrust. We’ll share it wide with our followers and supporters.
Share with friends: We want as many people as possible affected by spinal cord injury to benefit from our app. Please share it with people who may need it – it could help someone transform their life.
The Back Up wheelchair skills app is available to download in both the App Store and in the Google Play store. Please leave a rating!
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