9th July 2024
Our client, Emily, has Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy which causes weakness in her hips and shoulder muscles. Being a full-time wheelchair user, she cannot lift the lids on her wheelie bins. REMAP engineered a pair of remote controlled “Bin Lid Lifters” so that Emily can more easily put her rubbish in the bins.
18th March 2024
Our client, Christine, has a mobility scooter but has not been able to use it for many months because operating the control levers causes pain in her arthritic hands.
10th November 2023
Hazel suffers with manual dexterity following polio. She needed a set of cutlery that allows her to feed herself, which fits her hands comfortably, and will not degrade in the dishwasher.
Earlier bespoke cutlery lost its shape in hot water so became useless.
She was inspired by Remapedia to ask us if there was something that could be made for her.
6th April 2023
The client is a semi professional guitarist in a band, but has a tumour in the area of the right collarbone. This means that the strap of the guitar presses on it and is painful.
There was a device called the “MBrace” which discontinued production a few years ago, which supported any guitar on a microphone stand and allowed it to swivel to the right angle for playing. This takes the weight of the instrument off the shoulder and allows the player to walk up to the guitar from behind to play.
The challenge therefore was to make a similar support to the M Brace to suit all of the client’s different guitars (around eight in all) both electric and classical to allow her to play them comfortably and switch guitars during a performance.
2nd September 2022
The client has limited use of his left hand due to a stroke. His physiotherapist had made an adaption to his fork so he could stabilise food for cutting with his unaffected right hand. However, the adaption wasn’t quite fit for purpose so he contacted Remap to see if something more suitable could be made.
17th May 2022
A jewellery maker who works with paper decorated using felt-tip pens has reduced strength in her hands due to Rheumatoid arthritis. She struggles with removing the tops of her pens and glue-stick and asked if we could devise something to help her do this more easily.
8th March 2021
The bed-lever needed a well padded removable cover. The client is always assisted by his carers to get in and out of bed.
3rd September 2020
A professional drummer with Motor Neurone Disease could not get onto the stool for his drum kit from his wheel chair. He had quite strong arms therefore he could shuffle forward over the stool, leaving the wheelchair behind him.
This method of getting onto the stool meant that there could not be a fixed back rest as it would get in the way during transfers.
Some means of folding the backrest down while transferring was needed, allowing him to get the backrest up again and fixed unaided.
25th August 2020
MsA is a wheelchair user and has a right hemiplegia. Following a head injury her scalp is very sensitive and she likes to wash her own hair, with help. Sitting in her wheelchair, she bends over the side of the bath and uses her left hand to do the hair washing. She needs something to lean against while she does this as she cannot use her R hand to steady herself and she has back problems making leaning forward in her wheel chair uncomfortable.
5th March 2020
27th February 2020
5 year-old boy (one of twins) with Cerebral Palsy, who has recently had surgery to enable him to stand, planning going on their first family holiday to the beach. He wanted to use his ‘K’ Walker on the sand and in the sea.
Image of a commercially made ‘K’ Walker before adaptation.
26th February 2020
An electric wheelchair user with poor hand function, lack of co-ordination, and weakness (CP) wanted to drink his cold drinks independently.
24th February 2020
A gentleman, who had been a professional drummer, was no longer able to play as he could not get his ankle into the correct angle to operate the drum pedal. He could not lift his foot to allow the drumstick to move back ready to make the stroke.
Before – He could not hold his foot in the correct position to use the peddle.
24th February 2020
To enable a blind man to make a hot cup of tea with milk without assistance.
21st February 2020
To attach a stump board to a mobility scooter which has no removable cushion, which would allow a standard board to be used.
His scooter before modification
Comfy Rider fitted in the standard position
27th April 2014
Man with cerebral palsy walks with a frame at home. When shopping he uses his scooter, and has to leave his frame behind. This makes him unable to access the shops, having to wait outside while his wife goes in.
An attachment was made to hold his walking frame on his scooter.
The attachment allows him to carry his frame on the back of his scooter, giving him independent access into the shops, library etc.
13th April 2014
A London marathon entrant broke his ankle but was determined to carry on, using crutches but “running” on crutches poses problems:
1. Crutches hit road at an acute angle, so often skids.
2. Cause rapid wear to rubber tips.
3. Severe impacts are transmitted to upper limb joints causing multiple injuries.
4. Standard crutches rapidly suffer structural failure.
Crutches were modified by having tungsten carbide points projected through rubber tips, preventing skidding and accelerated wear. Telescopic gas springs with hydraulic shock absorption were fitted. Memory foam was fitted to hand grips spreading the load over the palm area. All metal joints welded.
The marathon was completed without injury in 8 hours 17 minutes.
10th March 2014
The client has chronic pain, and an above knee amputation, and her medication causes drowsiness. To relieve pain, she sits on the bed edge, often falling when she dozes. She needs support when sitting there, whilst remaining independent in transfers.
A drop-down bed lever, allowing access on/off the bed when in the lowered position was made. When raised, the mushroom top allowed her to doze safely, without over-balancing. She was also able to use this to pull herself up from lying. The client can transfer to and from her bed and is safe in bed.
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