Abstract: A device capable of manually raising or lowering a means for transporting a load to assist overcoming obstacles, including an arm automatically articulated about an articulation attached to the means for transporting the load between a first position retracted by the weight of the load and a second position deployed by the action of an elastic element, and a damping system capable of storing and releasing potential energy and of restoring it when the means for transporting the load is raised to overcome an obstacle and capable of absorbing shocks suffered by the transport means while overcoming a difference in level.