Ultimate Wheelchair Gloves Review: Which to Choose?

What are the best kinds of gloves for wheelchair users? Fingerless gloves? Cycling gloves? Skiing gloves? Or perhaps gardening gloves? What gloves do you glove the best? Gloves featured can be found here in my amazon shop. www.amazon.co.uk/shop/wheelsnoheels_ Some gloves are similar to the ones I tried in the video. But yes the “actual wheelchair gloves I used in the vid are there. :) These are off links.

The loops on the wheelchair gloves are to help you pull them off. I use them all the time when I’m in my manual wheelchair. In my powerchair when it’s really cold I use fingerless gloves with a mitten that pulls over the top. I love them. I’ve used so many other types and some fall apart easily, others have no padding and ones without a thumb split the skin on my thumbs if I’m pushing a long way or if it’s cold/ wet.

Testing how cold your hands were on Shaun was brilliant!

Oh! I want a siren for my wheelchair!!!

I am not a wheelchair user however I do use gardening gloves to help put on my compression stockings😂

I used to have two pairs on, a thin thermal pair with weight lifting fingerless and padded on top, the conbination worked brilliantly.

I agree with having a collection of gloves, personally when I'm out working I want my tight gardening gloves so I can feel what I'm doing. However, they aren't practical, so I have sturdier working gloves, but I lose the sensitivity and take them off for fiddly work. There is also one pair of winter gloves in my collection that are vital during the cold season, however, the downside is that they insulate too well at times and I end up having to dry them because the insides are wet.

Shawn wears many hats dishwasher, cold test dummy, and husband, and if your looking to pull the wool over his eyes he is your guy, an all around great friend!

I have tiny hands so I have found putting the knitted gloves on first then the fingerless wheelchair gloves over them my hands stay warm but I still have grip. Loved this video was so helpful and so funny just love Sean he’s sooo funny. ❤

I live in a very wet bit of the UK, don't drive and have arthritic hands and Raynaud's; finding gloves for my manual wheelchair that are waterproof, warm and comfy is an ongoing battle! I like Sealskinz for the winter, although they are £££ and I wish they made an XS size for the snug fit. Once it's warmer, I just have cheap cycling gloves to protect my skin from friction and increase grip.

I have always used leather gloves. They have some grip, they fit me well, they can be lovely and warm and are a bit waterproof.... tho obviously not in downpours!! Lol! Oh and they come in do many colours and styles. I usually have 2-3 pairs on me when I'm out, as I too have lost a single glove soooo many times, but I have found they arw what I always come back to. X

One suggestion that comes to mind is the all-rounder gloves for warmth, with a cycling glove over the top for grippiness.

I use padded gloves for motocross or biking with full fingers and i measure and trim all the fingers to my own trim them with fabric scissors leaving thumb covered and boom water resistant can be warm or cooler depending on what u buy and u csn have it be fit for u. You also can take a lighter and kinda burn the edge to help avoid thread pulling

I used to use muddy fox cycling gloves, but then a friend gave me a pair of the global leather wheelchair gloves like you had in the video and they were amazing. I use them all the time more so I'm dry weather and when I'm using my sports wheelchair. For outdoors wheeling I use inibike motorcycle gloves their leather and have been fairly sturdy plus the knuckles are reinforced so if ive any annoying ableists in my way I can always do a batman comic "kapow!!". A top tip for wheelchair users aswell is, if your car has a heated steering wheel, get that bad boy on as it will help keep your hands warm and loose for when you have to brave the elements. 😅

The best ones I've found for wheeling myself round are weightlifting gloves. They're like the cycling gloves but have some pretty thick rubber padding on palm and fingers, which is brilliant for grip, The thickness of the pad stops me catching my fingers on the wheel spokes as well. (I've got big hands) With fingers being exposed they're cold but can do things. My daughter is threatening to knit me finger covers in the form of minions - that won't be embarrassing at all!

I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, but the fact that I use a SmartDrive makes gloves an extra tricky find - I have pushrim covers (Reha Design Ultra-Grrrip, in case anyone's wondering - got them as a Christmas present a couple years ago) which add the extra diameter and grip that I need for basic everyday things, but when combined with the SmartDrive, I have to have something super durable for when I'm using my chair outside the house, and with the pushtracker for the SmartDrive, I can't have anything that covers my entire wrist, so wrap wrist gloves aren't an option for me. For reference, I have size 8 hands with proportionately short fingers, and I definitely agree about making sure you get the right size. I personally have 4 pairs of gloves: -Fingerless RimSports workout gloves - these are my main gloves; I generally go through about a pair a year, depending on how often I go out in my chair in the warmer months; these are also the gloves I fly with, even in the winter, since I'm inside for most of that and it's never very far from the terminal to the car or to the plane; when combined with the pushrim covers, these provide just the right amount of traction for going downhill in a wheelie; these have never been an issue with any of the pushtrackers I've used; I'm considering getting a full finger pair as well, since my EDS skin splits at the fingertips if it rubs my pushrim covers too much -Half finger Reha Design Ultra-Grrrip gloves - grippy, kind of stiff when new because they're part leather, but they relax nicely; NOTE: these do NOT work well when combined with both a SmartDrive and pushrim covers (I wore through my first brand new pair in about half a dozen uses because of that); I only use these if I'm waiting on a new pair of RimSports ones; these are kind of annoying when using with a pushtracker, even the original PT, because they come further up the wrist than the RimSports ones and end up kind of strapping across the watch face (if you have longer hands than I do, they might not strap so far up) -Mechanix Boxcutter gloves - suede palm and incredible grip all over, even when wet, so excellent when in wet conditions, like when we went to Carlsbad Caverns 2 1/2 years ago; cuts wind a bit but definitely not insulated, so only for warmer weather; do not have the "tech tip" on any fingers, so can be really annoying when dealing with touchscreens, though the chunky rubber fingertips have sometimes worked like tech tips if I tap just right; these have worked fine with the pushtrackers I've had, since they don't come really any further up the wrist than the RimSports ones -Swiss Gear ski gloves - these are my main winter gloves; they have a long dual-cinching cuff that goes all the way up past where my arm would rub on my wheel, so it protects my sleeves without sliding down, and they have a total-palm grip, as well as a zippered pocket on the back, which I put hand warmers in if it's really cold out; I live in the American Rockies region, so we easily get -20F and lots of snow in the winter, and these (combined with hand warmers when needed) have always been warm enough for me, and they are at least mostly waterproof (I can't remember the circumstances of the one time under which water seeped through); the fingers are shaped slightly, which helps with grip, but not so shaped that I don't have any dexterity; there are no tech tips, so can be annoying to operate my touchscreen pushtracker with (when I had the original PT, all I had to do was feel around until I felt and pushed a raised button on the PT under my glove cuff instead of tapping a touchscreen, and they worked just fine for that) After 3 1/2 years, I'm on my 5th or 6th pair of RimSports, 2nd pair of Reha Design (I was given 2 pairs as a Christmas present), 1st pair of Mechanix (mostly because I haven't had to use them much since getting the pushrim covers), and 3rd pair of Swiss Gear.

I've pretty much settled on fingerless cycling gloves in the summer and motorcycle gloves in the winter. Those work for me.

I got exercise/weightlifting gloves, and they work just fine and are very breathable for summer, but I definitely need a thumb cover, because I'm getting serious blisters on my thumb. I might jyst bite the bullet and get a pair of actual wheelchair gloves

Sports Direct do fingerless, leather weightlifting gloves and ski gloves with a grip. I've found both to be perfect. Plus far cheaper than actual wheelchair gloves.

Bit left field, but for better grip I'd recommend some none standard push rims.