Quality Mobility Products
27/1/2009The SCOOTER Store offers a complete line of high-quality power chairs, scooters, and mobility accessories. We have several scooter and motorized chair models available. With a full range of features, The SCOOTER Store's scooters and power chairs, like the motorized wheelchair, are easy-to-use, comfortable, safe and reliable.
Product availability varies by geographic location, so please check with your Mobility Consultant for more information. You can also visit us at one of our many The SCOOTER Store locations.
Accessories and Transportation Solutions
The SCOOTER Store offers many solutions for transporting your scooter or power chair to places you want to go. Products include home ramps, car lifts, electric wheelchairs and other accessories. We also have products available by special order, so please give us a call and let us help you find what you need.
Products and Solutions for Rehab
In 2007, The SCOOTER Store founded its Alliance Seating & Mobility division to help customers who are unable to rely on traditional power mobility equipment to meet their needs. Alliance Seating & Mobility provides patients and clients high-quality rehab equipment, service and support. Products include customized rehab equipment, custom power and manual wheelchairs, and many other products to help clients lead a better quality of life.
Please contact us to learn more about our rehab solutions and how you can work with Alliance Seating & Mobility for your rehab needs.
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Robotic suit helps paralyzed walk
11/1/2009LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new robotic suit could transform the lives of paralyzed people, giving them the ability to walk again.
The invention, known as ReWalk, acts like a kind of exoskeleton. It consists of lightweight, motorized leg supports and an assortment of intricate motion sensors.
Users wear a backpack that holds a computerized control box which helps the medical device recognize when a step needs to be taken.
"Standing changes my whole environment. I don't have to look from the bottom up. Now I am eye to eye with everybody," Radi Kaiof, who has used the device, told CNN.
Kaiof, a former Israeli soldier, was paralyzed from the waist down 20 years ago. He doesn't have feeling in his legs but is still able to move with the use of the robotic suit
With the assistance of crutches, which offer balance and support, people paralyzed from the waist down can walk, bend, sit and even climb stairs when they wear the suit.
The futuristic invention offers an alternative to using a wheelchair for those who have functioning upper bodies and are capable of standing with the use of supports.
It is the creation of Dr. Amit Goffer, an engineer and founder of Haifa, Israel-based high-tech firm Argo Medical Technologies. Goffer was inspired to create the device more than a decade ago after he became disabled in an accident.
The medical technology that could help paraplegics do what was once considered impossible isn't available for purchase yet. The device wasn't ready for testing until late 2007 and currently is in clinical trials in Tel Aviv.
More trials are planned for the United States and Europe, and if the product receives the necessary approvals, it could hit the market in 2010.
The price of the device hasn't been set yet, but is expected to be comparable with the typical average yearly expense of using a wheelchair.
The robotic suit improves the quality of life of people paralyzed from the waist down, according to Goffer, who wanted to give paraplegics an alternative to using a wheelchair. It also benefits their overall health since it keeps their bodies active all day long, he says.
But when it comes down to it, the invention is all about helping people regain respect. Dignity is "the No. 1 problem" for people who use wheelchairs, says Goffer.
For Kaiof, the former soldier, the robotic suit has changed his life. Before he tried it on, his daughter had never seen him stand before.
When he stood before her for the first time, she couldn't believe just how tall he was, he recounted to CNN.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/09/robotic.suit/index.html
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