This mobility medical site is always looking for unique gadgets for the mobility impaired crowd. Well, I found a really good one today. It’s hard enough for older able-bodied baby boomers to ride a bicycle for any distance, so you can imagine how hard it must be for those with severe disabilities to conquer a bike.
Now imagine for amoment that you only have one leg, how difficult that must be to pedal a bicycle. This ingenious person invented and designed a rather unorthodox bicycle that you actually push/glide while seated in a sling-type seat. The seat is adjustable to allow the rider to just barely reach the pavement with his or her foot, or feet, if that is the case. This mobility product just sorta looks like a bicycle, in that it has a front and rear wheel, and a typical handlebar set up. Now take away the frame that normally supports the seat post, and substitute that with a sling looking contraption. Now add a round tubular bar that goes over the bike rider from the rear sprocket to the front forks, this gives the bike the rigidity that the needed since part of the frame was removed to make room for the new type seat. This is one weird looking conveyance, but it works.
The rider simply pushes themself forward with a foot , then glides along until the foot can maneuver to the starting point again. Push, glide, repeat. Push, glide, repeat. Push, glide, repeat. Push, glide, repeat.
Get it? Folks that hadn’t ridden a bike in years because of amputations are now able to enjoy the freedom of the open spaces. People with hip injuries or recent hip replacements are able to get up and out to exercise. This is a true mobility medical product to assist the injured and infirm to get much needed exercise.
If you’re interested to see one in action, head on over to : www.glidecycle.com
Thanks for stoppin’ by. Till we meet again.
I am and you’re not.
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Mobility medical products come in many forms, for a variety of uses and needs. I just read about a writing pen designed especially for left handed persons. How, you ask, does that constitute as a mobility medical item? Well……..what if you are normally a right hand dominate writer, and you just happen to fall and break your right wrist? What’s the chance of you having to write something while your right hand heals? Only about 100% chance, that’s all. Let’s do a little test right now. All you righties pick up a pen in your left hand and try signing your name to something. If you’re like me ,you are going to write something that looks like a first grader, at best. Would you believe that there are over a billion persons with a preference for using their left hand? That’s a huge number of people who have learned to adapt in a right handed world. The pen is regarded as mankinds’ most important tools, if I say so myself. Ever heard of the phrase, ‘ the pen is mightier than the sword ‘? If not, you have now. Not that you will ever have to fend off someone with a pen, I’ld still take the sword for that function.
The Swan Neck Pen is an amazingly simple design, which uses a patented S-bend neck, hence the Swan Neck designation. The pen is said to be easier to hold and can be picked up and used with zero learning curve. The goal of the inventor is to get the pen issued to schools as a standard piece of writing tool.
I personally thing that this new writing instrument should be made available at all nursing homes and Hospitals, as that’s where you’ll find the injured elderly in need of this mobility medical product. For those of you want to learn more about this neat new item, head on over to : www.swanneckpen.com
I think I’m going to get one, just in case I need it. You never know. It’s hell gettin’ old. They lied.
Talk to you soon.
Till we meet again, I am and you’re not.
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