Everyone gets nervous about doing something for the first time, even when we dont want to admit to others that we feel a little nervous about something  thats completely new to us, inwardly we still feel that bit of anxiety.

The fact that you feel that way though is actually a good thing, it just means that you are concerned enough about doing things properly and that you care for your own safety and that of others too.

Before long, any nervousness soon fades as you get used to using your mobility scooter and become comfortable with it.

Until you get used to it though, it can help to follow a bit of advice which i will provide here in order to help build your confidence so that you become fully comfortable with using your mobility scooter.

Also remember that how long it takes will differ for each person, it might just take all of 5 minutes for you to lose your nerves, a day or maybe a few weeks, thats fine, because eventually you will no longer feel nervous about using your mobility scooter and can get on with enjoying the mobility and independance that a mobility scooter provides.

Follow these tips and advice to lose your nervousness and build your confidence using your mobility scooter.

1. Familiarise yourself with the controls and how to stop the mobility scooter before using it.

2. Have an experienced person with you to help get you used to using your mobility scooter, if at all possible.

3. If you can, have a relative or friend take you and your mobility scooter to a quiet, flat grounded area that will allow you to practice using the mobility scooter, possibly a disused area of tarmac that is without debris.

4. If its your very first time, try to choose a dry day so that you dont have the worry of wet ground to concern yourself with.

5. Make sure that you feel comfortable, make any necessary adjustments, being positioned properly and being comfortably seated can make a huge difference to how in control you feel.

Once you have got used to the basics and get used to the feel of the steering, the speed and starting and stopping safely, then its a good idea to practice things like going from pavements onto the road to cross over a road and back onto a pavement on the other side.

Do this when you feel more confident and more at ease, dont force yourself to do anything too soon and before you’re really ready to.

You might suprise yourself though and be comfortable and confident using your mobility scooter sooner than you expect to.

You might have been living with a disability for many years now or maybe you have recently become disabled but with both of these its quite possible that the rooms within your home are not planned out in the most convenient way for you, while still being comfortable enough for any other members of the household.

Understandably, many homes have limited options in the way that you can arrange furniture so that you’re happy with the room while getting the most from the space that the room provides.

Its not always down to rooms being small either, sometimes a room can be shaped so that it will only provide you with a couple of options to position furniture.

There are homes though that may have the potential to make mobility much easier for you if you spend a little time planning so that furniture is positioned for the whole room to be comfortable for all that will want to use that room, while still allowing you to pass through the room easily, and to reach anything that is important to you and that needs to be close by to aid you with your mobility.

Ideally you should look at each room of your home, including hallways, entrances, even a conservatory as of course this is an extension of your home.

Although you might not have considered checking each room to see how you can improve the layout for your mobility at home, it might be the case that after you have checked your home that there is nothing that you can actually have moved around or removed and this is fine

It may be that you already have furniture and items positioned quite well or that the room just doesn’t lend itself very well to a shuffle around of things and that you’re best off leaving things as they are.

This may be true for one of your rooms, some of the rooms or the whole home, but its worth the small amount of time that it takes to see if theres any way that you can have the layout of the room so that mobility for you is as easy and obstacle free as it can be.

With there being various physical disabilities, from those as a result of accidents and injuries to others that are a result of conditions and diseases, there can also be differences in the severity of pain that any individual may experience with their disability, if they are likely to experience pain.

Many people learn to cope with the pain that they will experience, whether its constant pain throughout the day or pain that increases at times, although unpleasant, many people will get used to the fact that its either there most of the time or that it will be experienced more while moving or at certain times for certain reasons.

Everyone can get anxious at times, about a whole number of things in life, from money worries to family concerns and everyting in between, but when you are living with a disability and also pain that comes with it, that fear of pain and the anxiety that can seem to be permanently there for some people can almost be as bad as the pain itself.

The thoughts, once there can plague and trouble a person, you may know that to move a certain way will mean some pain experienced, or that something that will need to be done soon will also result in pain and this can make you extremely anxious as you begin to fear those movements, you begin to get worried about areas of your mobility, you want to be mobile but the fear of pain can sometimes lead to you avoiding the mobility that you want and like, to try and avoid some of the pain.

Unfortunately this eventually only makes matters worse, because you might reach a stage where you restrict your mobility so much to the point that the situation begins to get out of hand.

The anxiety builds even more when this happens, your mobility becomes severely restricted through your own choice of avoidance and it will often lead to further discomfort and more problems which then becomes a vicious cycle which you may find hard to get out of once you get to that point.

This doesn’t mean that the fear of experiencing that pain is an overreaction, afterall, the pain is very real and its natural that when you know what is going to happen that you become worried by it.

There needs to be an element of control by yourself, even though you know that some of the pain cant be avoided, which can be a depressing thought at first, you still know that your mobility is important and that to lessen the amount of mobility that you have, in order to reduce some of the pain that can be experienced is not ideal.

Although lowering your anxiety of expected pain is not easy, its never a good idea to simply have less mobility in order to reduce any chance of pain because ultimately it ends up adding to the whole situation in a negative way.