While electrical mobility scooters have their main uses for both leisure and medical purposes, in was for medical reasons which they were originally designed and built, particularly to underpin conditions associated with limitations in movement of suffering patients. Certain medical conditions, weather physical or otherwise, limit locomotion in the elderly, injured or mentally ill. Some people are even born with these limitations and the employment of electrical mobility scooters serves to alleviate the stresses induced by these conditions in a very big way.

Scooters usually come in electrical makes, but there are some parts of the world that employ the use of less favored fossil fuel powered, which have more disadvantages than their electrically powered counterparts. The most obvious being the pollution factor which limits the use to outdoors as a health factor. Fossil fueled devices are usually used for rehabilitation processes however, over short intervals at places such as hospital exercise yards. They are also usually owned by institutions such as hospitals and rehabilitation centers, as opposed to being owned by individual patients, as they have limitations in their health-conscious use.

Since most are used indoors, they are mostly manufactured as front wheel drive based, electrical motor powered machines, with not much power and speed, but just enough to satisfy the locomotive requirements of a patient.

With easy handling and operational features, such as bicycle-like handlebars and a characteristic easy-to-use forward/reverse switch, medical mobility scooters were never designed to be complicated in any way, requiring minimal effort from the end-user, which is usually a patient with some sort of long term or permanent motion limiting condition. Furthermore, some specialized modifications can be done for those patients with special needs that are not suitably catered for by standardized medical mobility scooter designs, especially if the condition of the patient is a long term or permanent one.

Having mentioned all the advantages of the exploits of medical mobility scooters, it is still of utmost importance to make sure that the special needs of the end-user are suitably covered in the acquisition of a medical mobility scooter. One need not over spend on a high end rear wheel drive scooter with more power if the patient concerned only needs to get around indoors. Similarly, one does not want to be stuck with an under-performing nuisance of a machine if they want to get around to the park or make their way down to the local grocery store on a daily basis. It's all about evaluation of the needs and picking out the right medical mobility scooter.

While the medical benefits are obvious, some social advantages come with the use of a medical mobility scooter as opposed to say an electrically powered wheel chair. Medical mobility scooters incite more confidence and offer a greater psychological presence.