22nd May 2024
Our client self referred as young mother with an 8 month old baby. The mother has a fairly severe and painful spinal condition which means she mostly uses a wheelchair or occasionally a walking stick. Our client lives in Local Authority accommodation and has Local Authority support, however as the baby is in good health she is not entitled to any support with regard to caring for her baby and was in need of a cot for the baby in which she could care for it.
14th September 2023
Our client is a professional dog walker who was struggling with clipping a dog lead to the dog’s collar due to osteoarthritis in her hands and fingers. This simple adaptation of a carabiner clip has enabled her to carry on working safely with her dogs.
14th September 2023
Our client suffers from MND and experiences head drop when sitting upright which is, among other things, causing difficulties with using assistive technologies. This simple solution of using a fixed hat solved the problem.
14th September 2023
Our client is now wheelchair bound and cannot use the upvc door from the garage to the back garden as she cannot reliably lock it. As a consequence, she has stopped using her back garden as she is too worried that she cannot lock the door again.
2nd September 2023
Our client needs to be moved in a chair on wheels between his upstairs bedroom and the ground floor via a through-floor lift with the minimum number of transfers between different chairs. An end to end approach needed to be taken to achieve the requirement and adaptations put in place to overcome obstacles en route.
8th March 2023
Our client was elderly and frail and had had a stroke which affected her right-hand grip on her 4-wheel walker. She also had hurt her ankle on a protruding brake fixing on the lower tubing of the walker. Her Occupational Therapist asked Remap if her walker could be adapted to enable her to walk more comfortably indoors.
25th January 2023
Our client was a young mother-to-be who suffered from dramatic and unpredictable seizures. She was concerned that if she were to experience one of these seizures when she was out with her baby in the stroller, then she would not be able to protect her baby and the baby stroller could roll anywhere and into danger.
She asked if Remap could find a way to keep her baby safe.
29th December 2022
Jackie suffers from degenerative arthritis and is totally reliant on her mobility scooter for shopping and local socialising. Although she has a small ramp to her back door into the kitchen, it takes about half an hour to manoeuvre the scooter through the back door and into the kitchen because there is not enough space.
There is space to have a ramp to get the mobility scooter indoors via the patio doors. However, Jackie is unable to lift or manoeuvre into place any of the commercially available removable door ramps. Any permanent ramp needs to take into account the PVC patio doorframe and to ensure the protruding door fame lip and the door locking mechanism are not damaged or compromised.
18th December 2022
Gladys is a very determined and resourceful lady who although she suffers from tremors and the effects of a stroke, she is very keen to make the best of situations and to overcome difficulties. In the past, Gladys has always enjoyed crochet and knitting and was looking for a way to resume her passion for both of these hobbies. Her tremors and weakness in her left side made it very difficult for her to do either.
17th November 2022
Our client’s Occupational Therapist had asked for a four-wheeled walker leased from Medequip to be adapted to enable our client to have the mobility to safely walk to the local shops.
Following a stroke in 2008, our client has suffered from weakness in his left hand which prevents him operating the brake lever on that side of the walker. This makes the walker very difficult to steer and unsafe to use on the unevenly surfaced route to and from the local shops.
16th November 2022
Our client is a young boy who has short legs and very short thigh bones. He cannot walk but can manage getting up the house stairs using his knees and elbows.
He needed some steps to crawl up to get to his bath seat to get into the bath. The only available steps were too big and heavy to be used as they also had to be moved in and out of the small bathroom so the rest of the family could use it.
As he now weighs 22kg, it is a struggle and dangerous to try and just lift him on to and off his bath seat. Due to these difficulties he was developing a resistance to having his bath.
20th May 2021
Reaching the steering on your toy tractor is very frustrating if you are a 20-month old boy. If only you could have a small steering wheel close to your hand that would steer the tractor electrically, like a modern automated (fly-by-wire) tractor!
Fly-by-wire tractors also cost fractions of millions, and unfortunately are not available in a size to fit Theo.
21st October 2020
Martyn is an engineer who builds competition go-cart engines. Visual impairment means that reading precision measuring equipment is impossible.
15th January 2020
The client is an advanced stage of MND and now can no longer press a button to alert his carers. The only ability he has now is to blink. He needed a way to alert the carers using only blinks.
27th April 2014
The client, an amputee and having had a stroke, required a tray for reading his paper and the facility to transport a mug of tea from kitchen to lounge. The tray had to be removable.
A bracket was made coming from base of chair to accommodate hinging action of tray, with separate mug carrier.
The client can now make tea, transport it to lounge and spread out his newspaper.
27th April 2014
This lady client has multiple sclerosis, exacerbated by a recent stroke. This combination led to difficulty in food preparation as she needed her arms to be supported.
A cantilever style table with splayed legs and casters was produced which allowed the powered chair to enter between the legs. This permitted the use of the chair’s armrests to provide the necessary support for the client’s arms. The table has a lip to limit drop off on all sides except the one nearest the client.
This lady can now carry out a number of tasks in comfort that she previously found difficult or impossible to do.
27th April 2014
This client, living alone on a farm, has two water meters. She needs to read them regularly to monitor her neighbour’s usage so she can allocate costs. Reading her meters is difficult due to her poor eyesight and a torch reflects on the protective glass on both meters.
A magnifying lens was fitted on to a suitable rod. The meters are easily read in daylight and when a torch is needed, the light is not reflected from the curved top of the lens. It may be of interest that the handle was made out of a yoghurt pot, part filled with resin, then sand in the middle for economy, and topped up with resin. These pots are ideal in shape and grip.
Her water bills can now be properly allocated.
27th April 2014
The client enjoys an outdoor lifestyle. Problems with her ankle mean she needs to use walking poles when walking on rough ground. She has difficulty holding these due to weak, unstable wrists. The poles supplied by the hospital are too heavy and cumbersome to use for long periods and she wanted poles that did not look like NHS crutches.
Lightweight poles, (based on walking poles available commercially) were designed and manufactured by two students from the Art & Design Department of the College of York St John in conjunction with the Remap panel. This was their degree project.
The client can now enjoy her fell walking again and walk for a longer period of time now that the poles are lighter.
26th April 2014
A wheelchair user required additional support when using the family toilet, although standard support bars are already fitted. She accesses the pedestal from one side and needed additional support when in position.
The device shown gives this support and further enables her to flush the unit. It can be easily removed by other members of the family when the need arises.
The client now has the additional support needed.
25th April 2014
The local hospital asked for a scanning board as a therapy aid to help patients suffering from strokes to overcome a frequently encountered difficulty in that they are unable to turn the body to scan to the left. There was limited space available in the therapy room.
A four part scanning board was made consisting of white magnetic boards mounted on a castored tubular steel clothes rack. The two outer boards were hinged to reduce storage space requirements. Numbers and letters on white plastic tiles and with a magnetic strip on the reverse were made and can be placed on the board as required.
A low powered laser pointer fitted with a small 45° degree angled mirror is hung around the patient’s neck and shines on the board to show how far the torso is being rotated when searching for specified symbols.
The stroke patients can now be re-taught how to turn the torso to the left.
25th April 2014
The client was having difficulty in negotiating the full-height risers of a staircase but the disability was not such as to warrant the installation of a stairlift.
Fifteen half-step boxes were made and fixed close to one side of the treads so as to form a full staircase of halfheight risers. The existing carpet and paintwork were matched as closely as possible.
The client can now climb the stairs unaided and for the able-bodied there is negligible obstruction of the stairway. The adaptation is not obvious to the casual visitor and there has been no damage to the structure of the building.
25th April 2014
The client was unable to grip soap in shower as he has a reduced grip following a stroke.
A piece of sandpaper was stuck on the back of the soap – copying the ‘Cussons Imperial Leather’ principle.
There is now no risk of dropping soap, but he must make sure he uses the correct side!
21st April 2014
After an accident to his left hand, a retired plasterer was unable to hold his plasterer’s hawk.
The handle of the hawk was modified to include a tube to go over his wrist, and he is now able to plaster again.
15th April 2014
The client has dystonia and has had the forefinger of one hand released by surgery. She expressed a wish to hold a cup when her friends call.
The sealed tube through the beaker shown in the photographs allows her to hold a cup. The stand, weighted with lead, helps when ‘jamming’ the forefinger in place.
The client can now have a cup of tea with her friends.
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