What are Americans thinking about health care reform legislation these days? Scrap it and start over or try to build on what has already been [...]
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Wheelchair users in developing countries often have very unique needs that traditional wheelchairs are not able to accommodate. Among these is the need to cover very mixed types of terrain. The wheelchair needs to be versatile enough to use both indoors and on the more rugged and challenging terrain found outdoors. Amos G. Winter’s, a doctoral [...] The Zenith Wheelchair is a concept wheelchair and is the brainchild of Mechanical Engineering Department at the UofA, designer Josefina Chaves-Posse. As you can see, the Zenith Wheelchair has all terrain tracks for conquering the great outdoors. The concept also includes design elements that will allow it to climb curbs and stairs. A very interesting [...] It’s really amazing how the realization a few years back that people with disabilities are a viable commercial market has spawned so many new innovations. The Rotary Kettle is a recent James Dyson Australian Design Award winner. It’s a great idea and so simplistic in theory that I wonder why I didn’t think of it? It [...] For those of you not familiar with MS Views and News, it’s the brainchild of MS evangelist Stuart Schlossman and is his very effective way of bringing the Multiple Sclerosis community together. From The Self Healing Coach: The PENNSYLVANIA’S MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR WARRANTY ACT is actually little known good news for powered wheelchair users in [...] How a wheelchair can go wrong. A wrong wheelchair or an inappropriate wheelchair is often not just luck of the draw. Wrong wheelchairs can be made to happen or can be forced to [...] That’s right! Being a person with a disability doesn’t mean that you have to forsake fun and fashion when it comes to clothing. Thankfully, we are seeing more and more adaptive apparel makers who are moving the inclusion cause forward by designing and manufacturing clothes for people with disabilities that are COOL instead of institutional and [...] It doesn’t end! The old debate of “is standing beneficial” for people with paralysis and spinal cord injuries. These debates invariably lead to discussions on the benefits of standers, or sit to stand technology, standing frames, et al. I have been around assistive technology for, hell, I hate to admit, over thirty years. The debate [...] ReWalk- Part external robotic aid, part ambulatory device, part orthosis, and an all new technology to get wheelchair users up, out there, and up [...] |
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