90% of wheelchair users experience pain from their mobility devices An international study for the Toyota Mobility Foundation has found that 90% of wheelchair users in the UK, USA, Japan, Brazil and India experience pain from their mobility device. The research, which...
[grwebform url=”https://app.getresponse.com/view_webform_v2.js?u=zZ4xV&webforms_id=18433203″ css=”on” center=”off” center_margin=”200″/] Twenty-five years ago, at age 39, Jim Van Hulzen began experiencing numbness in...
In the first of a series of blog articles, we are going to look at the factors that impact the effectiveness of FES. This one covers depolarisation and neural recruitment. Depolarisation Depolarisation is when a nerve undergoes a shift in electric charge distribution...
Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is the application of an electrical current to excitable tissue to improve or restore functions lost in neurologically compromised subjects” (Peng et al., 2010). It is a subgroup of electrical stimulation focussed around the...
Following on from the recent 5 star from review Able Magazine Obi has now picked up another accolade. It has been selected as the Gold Winner in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Products category of the 20th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA)....
We have just taken on board a new product to our mobility portfolio – the SmartDrive MX2+. This lightweight walking-speed power-assist device for manual wheelchairs is a natural fit in meeting our main objective of transforming the lives of disabled people across the...
Travelling over slightly rough terrain such as gravel, mud, grass or even cobbles can be hazardous in a wheelchair. If you are travelling at any sort of speed, you can easily tip over forwards, should your small castors hit a stone, stick or another protrusion....
Earlier this year we posted a blog on Facebook about why, we believe, a Batec is better choice for a wheelchair electric hand cycle than the Rio Firefly. This caused quite a lot of comment, most of it positive from Batec users, but also some a little negative around...
Recently, we were fortunate to get a slot in our good friend Dave Thompson’s very busy diary, to talk about the Warrington Disability Partnership, Disability Awareness Day, the Phoenix Project and his love of a recently acquired Batec Electric. In the first part...
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