Best Wheelchairs

Scientist state "Virtual reality sets can help disabled people walk again"!

Numerous studies and experiments show that VR sets (glasses and nano-enabled exoskeleton) may help regain partial control over limbs. It all started back in 2014, when 156 greatest minds of the world launched the program helping handicapped people regain their footing. During this research, scientists have noticed that regular training with VR sets really gave a great result. VR positively affects the human nervous system, forcing nerves to carry messages from the brain to muscles, making the body move. As a result of the experiment, many patients gradually began to restore their ability to move the limbs. It's unbelievable, but after a constant use of virtual reality set, the young woman, who had been paralyzed for 13 years, could move again, though with the help of walkers. At the moment, scientists conduct additional researches to bring their discovery into the medical treatment level. Who knows, perhaps in the near future, VR sets will help disabled people regain their ability to move and enjoy life in full.

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Partial loss of any limb, let alone the total loss of legs or arms, completely changes the life. However, nowadays, technology and medicine can make the life easier offering high-quality prosthetics. Artificial limbs allow people to do activities they might not be able to do otherwise. Today, the market offers us new bionic prosthetics that significantly differ from mechanical ones.

A bionic knee can replace true muscle activity and adapt for slow and fast walking speeds, while a bionic leg can be even adjusted for cycling, hiking or cross-country skiing. As for upper limbs, a bionic hand is the first fully articulating prosthetic that acts and looks like a real human hand. The artificial hand is controlled by a highly intuitive control system that can read muscle signals to open and close fingers.

So, with bionic limbs, a large number of people can live a full life once again.

To make your sleep comfortable and relieve muscle pain, we suggest you get a comfortable mattress topper.

Stephen William Hawking is the most famous disabled scientist. It's Stephen Hawking who has discovered black holes and written "A Brief History of Time", an international bestseller. Being wheelchair bound for more than 50 years, Stephen Hawking gives lectures, write books, works on the basic universe laws, does researches in cosmology, and lives a family life. All this is due to his special wheelchair!

The scientist lost his ability to speak in 1985 when he caught pneumonia. Walter Woltosz, the CEO of Words Plus company, developed a high-tech communication program "Equalizer" that allowed Hawking to communicate with the people around. A small computer that could react to Hawking's mimic was attached to his wheelchair. Thus, Stephen Hawking got an ability to continue his research.

Yet, technologies don't stand still, and after a while, Intel presented a clever chair computer that could interpret a person's intentions rather than the actual input. Such a computer can always control biometric human condition as well as mechanical properties of the chair. Some sensors are responsible for the body temperature, pressure, blood pulse, while others control the chair itself. A special program can even arrange the optimal route to the desired point.

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Sport for athletes with a disability has existed since the 19th century; the first sport clubs for the deaf were opened in 1888 in Berlin. However, only after the World War II, sports for disabled were widely introduced. On 29 July 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized the competition for wheelchair war veterans, which he called the Stoke Mandeville Games! It was a turning point in Paralympics history. Four years later, competitors from other countries joined these Games and, thus, the Paralympic Movement was born.

The first Olympic-style games took place in Rome in 1960. 400 athletes from 23 countries came to these games, and since then the games have been taken place every four years! As for the first Paralympic Winter Games, they were held in Sweden in 1976.

To make showering easier, you'll definitely need a shower chair.

Some scholars believe that wheeled furniture has its roots in the 5th century, since the earliest image of the wheeled bed was found on a Greek vase of that age. Yet, the first wheelchair (also called an invalid chair) was made in 1595 for Phillip II, the king of Spain. In 1655, a self-propelling three-wheeled chair was invented by a paraplegic watchmaker, Stephen Farfler. And only since the late 17th century, invalid chairs were widely used in Europe. In 1760, James Heath introduced a bath wheelchair intended for invalids and ladies, that soon became a popular means of transportation. However, a bath chair was not very comfortable and during the next two centuries, was significantly improved. Only in 1869, a wheelchair was finally equipped with push wheels and front casters. In 1933 Harry Jennings along with his disabled friend, Herbert Everest, invented the first collapsible wheelchair. They founded the Everest & Jennings company and began mass production of folding wheelchairs. It's noteworthy that the same company was the first to manufacture electric wheelchair in 1956.

The positive effects of thermotherapy are numerous. Better blood circulation, pain relief, improved joint health, spasms soothing! If you want to try heat therapy, get a heating pad!