New Mobility Publication – Jan. 21, 2025



Excessive Motus: A Human-Powered Wheelchair to Discover Past Accessible Trails

The Excessive Motus All-Terrain Wheelchair is a light-weight aluminum, out of doors mobility machine designed to allow wheelchair customers to discover past accessible trails and terrain. Constructed with three giant, low-pressure tires and a rugged however comparatively light-weight body, the Excessive Motus’ design makes it simple for one grownup to push a rider throughout rocky trails, sandy seashores and snowy paths.

Medicare Now Covers Bowel Administration Units

As of Jan. 13, Medicare will cowl bowel administration units, also referred to as transanal irrigation units. As Bob Vogel writes, for a lot of wheelchair customers TAI programs could be a sport changer, emptying the bowel so fully that customers have a 24-48-hour window with out having to fret about accidents. Now these efficient but costly programs will develop into extra accessible.

Please Stay Seated: Entry Ramp

four panel comic of a wheelchair user struggling up a ramp while holding a door, informing a store worker that they shouldn't have a ramp in front of an outward opening door, the worker promising to fix it, and the wheelchair user opening the door from inside to find no more ramp.

The right way to Handle Pets as a Wheelchair Person

“I’ve learn conversations of cat house owners who appear to agree that the most effective factor you are able to do to forestall a cat from getting run over along with your chair is to run over the cat along with your chair,” writes John Beer. He talks with different wheelchair customers to get past that questionable maxim and learn the way they maintain their small pets protected, and the way they work together with and take care of them too. 

Adaptive Snowboarding Taught Me to Embrace the Evolving Nature of My Incapacity

Sean Marihugh skied as a baby, till weak spot introduced on by muscular dystrophy made him assume he’d have to surrender considered one of his favourite actions. It took him years to attempt sit snowboarding with an open thoughts. However as soon as he did, he cherished it. “As my physique continues to vary, it’s gotten simpler to reframe what I’ve beforehand thought of a ‘loss’ of skill, into a chance to be artistic and adapt,” he writes.


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