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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Portable Dog treat dispenser

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The Charity 'Dogs for Good' require potential assistance dog owners to be able to dispense single kibble dog treats to reward the right actions during their training period. This person has been waiting over a year to have an assistance... View Details

Leg Supports for Rollz Motion wheelchair

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This client has a Rollz Motion wheelchair and, for medical reasons, needs to have her legs horizontal. However, this wheelchair does not have an option for leg supports to be attached. I obtained some standard leg supports and designed and... View Details

Supermarket trolley linkage

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Our client has MS and relied on her wheelchair and help to get around, but found that her new wheelchair had side frames that were much further back than usual, such that she could no longer use the special wheelchair... View Details

Buggy safety tether

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The client is concerned that she will release her baby's buggy during an epileptic seizure and requires a means to restrain it. 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

Accessibility Handle for BT 4600 DECT Phone

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Our client had difficulty picking up and maintaining grip on their mobile phone. As a consequence, the phone would often drop to the floor and they were unable to retrieve it from their electric wheelchair. View Details

Accessibility Handle for Alcatel 1066 Mobile Phone

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Our client had difficulty picking up and maintaining grip on their mobile phone. As a consequence the phone would often drop to the floor and they were unable to retrieve it from their electric wheelchair. View Details

Drag-bag conversion to take ambulatory oxygen cylinder

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Client’s requirement This referral came from a pulmonary rehab OT for a 72 year-old Crone’s sufferer who had complications from medication which resulted in surgery and the occasional need for ambulatory oxygen. The engineer highlighted the limited mobility over rough... View Details

Shopping tray

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Rania lives alone and has weak muscles, but can push firmly. When shopping, a standard wheelchair tray proved inconvenient. Although a carer could fit the tray to the chair in the morning, Rania could not lift her purchases off the tray... View Details

Pushchair adaptation for supermarket trolley

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This disabled child could not use a shopping trolley child seat. The child’s pushchair needed to be adapted to permit use of a wheelchair user’s trolley. By fitting a suitable (easily removable) adaptor frame any style of supermarket wheelchair trolley... View Details

Oxygen cylinder carrier for wheelchair

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The client relies on bottled oxygen. When taken outdoors in her wheelchair she had to securely hold the oxygen cylinder between her legs, resting it on the foot plates of the wheelchair. Two support brackets are held in place on... View Details

Handlebar for mobility scooter

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This blind man wanted a handle to enable him to follow his wife’s electric scooter and sense changes of direction. A socket already existed on the back of the scooter. Into this fitted a square tube and on to this... View Details

Attachment of shopping trolley to wheelchair

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The client’s special wheelchair could not be attached to supermarket disabled shopping trolleys, due to the angled front leg supports.  A U- shaped bracket was made that attached to the existing leg support adjustment mountings and the uprights of the... View Details