Let’s Get It Clear: Travelling by air with a wheelchair part II – Air Travel Configuration Card
Figure 1. American National Standard for Assistive Technology for Air Travel In last month’s Let’s Get It Clear article we reviewed the experience that wheelchair…
Let’s Get It Clear: Travelling by air with a wheelchair around the airport and the plane
Figure 1. The minimum width requirement for a body scanner is 90cm in Japan. Air travel and airports are not readily designed for ease of…
Let’s Get It Clear: Alternative controls to a standard joystick
Figure 1. A centrally mounted chin-operated joystick The convention for driving a powered wheelchair is to have a joystick positioned at the end of an…
Let’s Get It Clear: Child or adult? What’s the difference?
When we are assessing, procuring, supplying, or fitting equipment, what are the implications around so-called ‘paediatric’ equipment? Where do we take aboard legal ages versus…
Let’s Get It Clear: Managing progressive disorders
Figure 2. The Aergo PS seating system Many people need assistive products to help overcome physical, mental, or ‘behavioural’ impairments. For many people these impairments…
Let’s Get It Clear: Getting power under control
Figure 1. A controller with a standard joystick Figure 2. A mushroom or domed joystick handle Most electrically powered wheelchairs make use of a joystick…
Let’s Get it Clear: What makes a good positioning belt? Safety first
In previous issues of THIIS in the Let’s Get it Clear series1, we have covered various aspects of ‘What makes a good positioning belt?’. The…
Let’s Get it Clear: What makes a good positioning belt? 5. Harnesses and anterior support
Fig 2. Shoulder harness (left) and chest harness (right) In previous issues of THIIS in the Let’s Get it Clear series 1, we have covered…
Let’s Get it Clear: What makes a good positioning belt? 4. Wheelchair attachments
Figure 2. Circular clamp In previous issues of THIIS in the Let’s Get it Clear series1, we have covered ‘What makes a good cushion?’ over…
Let’s Get it Clear: When is an optional extra an accessory?
Fashion accessory? The use of the correct terminology becomes important when considering what is an accessory, as compared with an option, or an optional extra.…