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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Lightweight Electric Grabber

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Our young client has progressive muscular dystrophy and is currently losing mobility and strength in his hands. Retrieving dropped items such as the TV remote control, mobile phone and toys whilst using his wheelchair is a big problem. View Details

Wheelie Bin Lid Lifter for Wheelchair User

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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... View Details

Adaptive Stairlift

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We were asked to design a device which would raise and lower the seat height for a Stannah stairlift for a lady with muscular dystrophy.  We designed the adaptive seat in CAD which enabled us to share updates and design... View Details

Dog Ball Launcher

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Our client wants to be able to interact with his dog by playing fetch, but finds it challenging due to his reduced mobility. Therefore, to overcome this challenge, our REMAP engineer has expertly designed and created a bespoke dog ball... View Details

Brake Modification on Shower Commode Chair

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The client uses a T70 shower commode chair for toileting and showering. As he lives alone without careworker support, he needs to operate both brakes by lowering the left lever, which needs to be higher and longer than the original.... View Details

Boccia ball holder

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Boccia is a boules sport related to bowls and Pétanque, and is played up to Paralympic level.  Our client plays Boccia socially and required a Boccia ball holder to attach to an existing wheelchair tray he has. View Details

Night time toileting

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In a similar vein to a previous project https://remap.org.uk/solutions/urine-bottle-night-time-emptying/ this is a full solution to the problem of clients with severely reduced dexterity/movement, and night-time toileting. Conventional urine bottles, and this type of commercially available urine container were both unsuitable... View Details

Tilting bed

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The client requires her daughter's profiling bed to be kept flat when the head end is raised while she is continuously enterally fed over a 12 hour period. Keeping her head higher than her feet will enable her to be... View Details

Head Support

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The Suffolk East group was asked by an occupational therapist to provide some head support for use when walking. Neck collars and chin supports are available by they tend to be very uncomfortable. A support was not required when sitting... View Details

Bed transfer rail

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Our client had recently dispensed with a hospital-type profiling bed and bought himself a much nicer looking one.  But like the profiling bed, his new bed only came with a particular type of grab rail and our client has a... View Details

Wheelchair shooting table

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To construct a rigid but foldable table adapted to shooting regulations for a lightweight manual wheelchair for a client with limited mobility who wished to enter Paralympic level competitions.   View Details

Sliding Desktop Hand Support

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Our client was unable to use a pen to write or draw because she did not have sufficient muscular strength to move her hand and arm across the table. View Details

Powered platforms for children

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The Redway School is a Milton Keynes school for children and teenagers with physical and learning difficulties. The children often use 'activity chairs' (see photo) which support them physically and have an attached tray to allow them to work with... View Details

Rising Shower Chair

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The client, a man in his early 70s, has a rare late-onset progressive muscle disorder (inclusion-body myositis). He currently is wheelchair dependent and relies on a full function powered (“Quickie”) wheelchair. He has almost no extension power in the knees... View Details

Non-spill cup carrier

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We are often asked if we can help Clients who are unsteady on their feet (following a stroke, Parkinsons, or simply age related) if we can find some way they can carry drinks and other liquids without spilling them. The... View Details

Relocated Wheelchair Hand Control

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The client only had small hand movement, no arm movement, the movement control for hi electric wheelchair was mounted as usual at the side of the chair which he could no longer reach.  He could not talk and only communicated... View Details

help to get out of car

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I needed some help in getting out of the car, a higher doorsill to push against. View Details

Urine bottle night time emptying

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Our client was struggling with his care provider due to their staffing shortages and was often in a situation where the time period from being put to bed by his carers to a visit next morning was up to 12... View Details

Rascal Rio power chair tray

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Our client is an 80 year old lady suffering from MS. She wanted an easily removable tray fitted to her Rascal Rio powered wheelchair which she uses around the house.  Nothing was available from the manufacturer.  The controls for the... View Details

Arm support

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Client has Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome and her weak arms cause difficulty with lifting them above waist height, so has trouble with doing makeup, hair-drying, hair straightening, etc. She had tried resting arms on, for example, a dressing table but they... View Details

One-handed food preparation

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The client had a major stroke and lost use of her left hand but still lives independently and wished to be able to prepare fruit and vegetables, specifically melon. A number of commercial aids are available, but none would hold... View Details

Treadmill child safety rails #3

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Rose has cerebral palsy and needs to exercise daily. She has a treadmill available but it is for adults, so the existing hand rails are too high for her since she is only 7 years old. The risk of not... View Details

Boggy board for electric wheel chair

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Client with Limb Girdle muscular dystrophy could only walk short distance before pain in legs required a fitting to her wheel chair so that when her child who is being tested for the same condition got tired, the child could... View Details

One-handed viola playing

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After a stroke, the client, with reduced hand and arm strength on one side, wished to return to playing his viola. View Details