EXCLUSIVE: A day in the life of a healthcare professional turned owner of an online mobility scooter store
Mary Eardley, Owner of Mobility Britain, talks about her role as the owner of an online store specialising in selling mobility scooters and how her…
EXCLUSIVE: A day in the life of an assistive technology design and innovation manager
Keir Haines, Design and Innovation Manager, has worked for Designability for 10 years. Designability is a Bath-based design charity that creates products and services with…
Let’s Get It Clear: Covering a mobility need in a care home
Fig 1. The Bodypoint Dynamic Arm Support dynamic arm support Having been approached a number of times in recent months, by friends and acquaintances in…
Let’s Get It Clear: Education Health and Care Plans – The essentials for success
Figure 1. The timetable to reaching an EHCP (numbers in brackets are the maximum number of weeks from the start of the process) At the…
Let’s Get It Clear: Managing the upper extremities of a seated person
Fig 3. The Moduform Dynamic Arm Support Over the years engineers have made a steady progression in improving wheelchairs and their accessories to the benefit…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – Absolute angles in seating system measures
Figure 1. The Right Hand Rule for describing the three gravitational axes (Fig in the CAG1) In the previous articles we looked at how parts…
EXCLUSIVE: A day in the life of an assistive technology sales manager
Bob Sagoo, UK and International Sales Manager for Pretorian Technologies, shares how his position is so much more than sales and involves working with therapists,…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – Absolute angles in body measures
Figure 2. The Right Hand rule for indicating the direction of positive or negative rotation around an axis (Fig in the CAG, 2) In the…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – relative angles of the body
In this article we look at what we need to do to measure the angles between different parts of the body with respect to the…
EXCLUSIVE: A day in the life of a product manager at an established TEC specialist
Nikki Williams, Product Manager at Tunstall Healthcare, discusses what a typical day in her life looks like, including the importance of working with health, social…