Get a look at the new Lasher Sport BT-X. A manual wheelchair that transforms for use on street, rough terrain, or on a [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] ReWalk- Part external robotic aid, part ambulatory device, part orthosis, and an all new technology to get wheelchair users up, out there, and up [...] New manual wheelchair design that promises to take the strain off of the wheelchair users shoulders and make transfers [...] A commercially made kit that will adapt a gas powered engine to a manual [...] New York, NY…..The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the marketing of Ampyra™ (dalfampridine, formerly known as fampridine SR, from Acorda Therapeutics) for its ability to improve walking speed in people with any type of multiple sclerosis. Ampyra is the first therapy specifically approved to treat a symptom of MS, and as an oral drug [...] A new off-road wheelchair with suspension, camber, and a classy frame [...] |
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