Solutions

Here you will find an archive of many previous REMAP solutions. These may be pieces of bespoke equipment or adaptations that have been made by REMAP volunteers. To find out more about an item, please click view details.

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Raise ReTurn sit-to-stand aid footplate

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The footplate of a ReTurn sit-to-stand aid was too low for a child so a simple wooded platform was made to achieve the required height. View Details

Comfort adaptation for child potty training

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Being comfortable is always desirable. However, when you are a parent and trying to potty train your child, the comfort of the child becomes essential to the successful outcome. Whilst the majority of children's potty seats are made from rigid... View Details

Low Level Ride On Scooter

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The project was to provide a scooter for a two year old child with low growth. The ride-on scooter was suggested by their physiotherapist to help the child gain leg strength. View Details

Modified Stair Lift

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This client was unable to reach the lever of their stairlift which put them at risk of falling down the stairs. Their Occupational Therapist asked REMAP to adapt the lever, so the client could stay safe. View Details

bespoke kitchen step

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This client required a bespoke step so they could reach the kitchen work surface and help to cook with family members. View Details

School stool footrest

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A new year 7 pupil has Androchorodroplasia and her OT and SENCO asked Remap to modify a school stool by adding a footrest. The brief was to have a footrest 250mm from the seat and projecting 250mm from the stool... View Details

Steps for young adult with Morquio syndrome

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Remap Essex West were approached to provide a set of steps to enable the young adult Client with Morquio Syndrome to use the toilet facilities unaided at a training centre. Previously his mother had to attend every day to help... View Details

Sensory Regulation Spinner

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Sam is the teacher of 3 to 6 year olds, with severe learning difficulties in Purple Class at The Milestone School Longlevens. He came to us with this challenge All the children in Purple Class have severe learning difficulties.  Most... View Details

Customised Bath Steps

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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... View Details

School chair footrests

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Our client is a school pupil with achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism. The sort of chairs used in science, art, domestic science, and wood/metalwork are higher than normal school chairs and Remap were asked if we could add... View Details

Treadmill adaptation for boy with cerebral palsy

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This was for a 4 year old boy who needed to use a treadmill to help him develop his leg muscles.  He couldn't reach the handrails so a lower set needed to be attached to the original hand rails. View Details

Zimmer frame arm gutter supports

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Our client is of very short stature with significant posture issues.  She had been using a child's zimmer to help her walk, which had previously been modified to have an extra set of wheels, but this wasn't providing the support... View Details

Reduce height of 3-wheeled walker

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The client found that the height of her 3-wheeled walker could not be adjusted low enough for her.  Often, this can be easilly achieved by drilling extra adjustment holes and/or cutting the frame a bit lower, but this would not... View Details

One-handed Window Opener

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The client is a lady who has substantially lost the use of her left arm as a result of a stroke.  She is fairly short and is unable to reach over the sink to open her kitchen window.  A previous... View Details

Fly-by-wire kids tractor

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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... View Details

Wheelchair Step

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A Paediatric Occupational Therapist contacted us with the following challenge: A child with Cerebral Palsy has a tiny tracks electric wheelchair: https://www.tinytrax.com/ The wheelchair seat is 45cm off the ground, so slightly too high for her to sit straight into... View Details

Child’s Counterbalanced Arm Supports

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The challenge was how to enable Theo who has Nemaline Myopathy to use his arms so that he can use a tablet, play with toys etc. The major clinical features of nemaline myopathy are muscle weakness, hypotonia and reduced or... View Details

Wheelchair Rocking Table

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The concept called for a table mounted on inclined links from a floor-mounted base that was large enough and strong enough to accommodate a child in a wheelchair.  Movement by a child in the wheelchair would cause the table to... View Details

Step Stool

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The usual solution for helping someone to get on/off the sofa or to get in/out of bed might be standard NHS step stools but given the client’s height the platform on these stools is too high for her to step... View Details

Help for children with dwarfism

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Young girl with dwarfism was just starting school and required a way to reach the school wash basins and toilets View Details

Sensory woodland bird boxes

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Nidderdale Children’s Resource Centre in Killinghall near Harrogate offers short breaks to children and young people with special needs.  The facility has a sensory garden already, which Remap has helped with in the past, but the dedicated team who run... View Details

Folding toilet step

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A school requested Remap to make a folding toilet step for an exceptionally small pupil but which could also be used by others. View Details

Window Opener

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The client had trouble opening windows in her kitchen due to height / mobility issues. She also had psoriasis which made gripping any kind of implement a struggle due to dry skin. The challenge was to design a strong unit,... View Details

Bathroom Step

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Child with significant lower limb weakness is not able to stand up from the floor independently. She requires assistance for steps. The bath is in a lowered area 25cm lower than the bathroom floor. The OT requested a Platform/step between... View Details