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

Duvet lifter

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The client uses a self hoist to move from her bed into a wheelchair. She finds it very hard/impossible to remove her duvet to do this so REMAP was engaged to find a solution. It was a difficult solution to... 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

Motorised Neck Brace for client with MND

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The client needs to lean their head forwards in order to swallow. However, they have very weakened neck muscles, due to MND, and their head falls forward uncontrollably. The client is then unable to bring it back up without help... View Details

Touch sensitive remote control

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The lady in this case suffers from MS, Arthritis, and is on Oxygen due to respiratory problems. She was unable to operate the press buttons on the electric bed remote and if, in the night, she needed to lift the... 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

Bedside light with multiple switches

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The client has some mobility issues and had not used his bed for some time because he could not easily and quickly locate his bedside light if he needed to get up during the night. He did not want to... 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

Door opener for self closing doors

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Self closing doors are essential in many places such as care homes to limit the risk with fire but commercial door openers are prohibitively expensive. View Details

Game for Blind or Partially Sighted

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The Essex branch of the charity Deafblind UK found it very difficult to entertain blind or partially sighted people, singularly or in groups, they were aware of a games console made by Essex Central Remap for people with disabilities, but... View Details

Servo-assisted drum kit modification

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Young client with cerebral palsy is a keen drummer, however has limited use of this legs, so experiences difficulties with using the high hat and bass drum, which are both pedal operated. The traditional way of dealing with this issue... View Details

MaMa T4CE

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The simple domestic oven presents particular design challenges for the engineer.  No more so when the design has to allow for the individual capabilities of a client who is differently abled. The latter means that no one solution will fit... View Details

workbench / motorbike lift

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The project was to build a workbench that could also pick up a motorbike so the client could maintain it, the lifts on the market you couldn't get a wheelchair under so were not acceptable. View Details

Electric grabber

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The client is a wheelchair user and has a very weak hand grip. He struggles to pick things up from the floor, even using a modified, mouth operated "Helping Hand" type device. An electric device similar to one already made... View Details

Servo assisted sailing

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RYA Sailability is a large well established organisation that enables those with disabilities to enjoy getting on the water in a variety of ways. This project is particularly concerned with dinghy sailing, either accompanied or single-handed. Early adaptations of dinghies... View Details

Push Button Sewing Machine Control

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He employed his full time assistants to operate the foot pedal of the sewing machine.   He wished to control the sewing machine himself.Additional benefits would include:Timed interval between pushing the button and stitch (so he can prepare the work and... View Details

Motorised hammock

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This six-year old is brain damaged, partially sighted and deaf. Her parents wanted a motorised hammock which could give a sense of movement and her carers wanted some relief from rocking her in her sprung cradle. The swing has a... View Details

Motorised chair raiser

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A man living alone could walk with sticks but found it impossible to go from sitting to standing, or vice versa, without assistance and spent most of the day standing. He needed an aid to lift him from a sitting... View Details

Modified bath lift

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This 90 year old lady lives alone and sometimes has dizzy spells. When this happens she lowers herself to sit on the floor but is unable to get up without assistance. As her carer only comes twice a day, she can... View Details

Modifications to toy car

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An eight year old boy, mad on cars, has cerebral palsy and is unable to sit unaided or control his legs. He has limited control of his right arm and some use of his left arm. The modifications to the... View Details

Joystick control for golf buggy

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A farmer has a spinal injury resulting in central cord syndrome. The panel was asked if it could adapt a golf buggy to steer using a joystick so that he could go around the farm to check his sheep. A... View Details

Heated trousers powered from wheelchair

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A motor accident left this client using a wheelchair. With poor circulation and sensation in his legs, going outside for any reasonable time on a cold day risked some serious health issues. His wheelchair was battery power-assisted, and he had... View Details

Dog handling device

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The client has cerebral palsy with very little movement other than of his head and drives his electric chair with his chin. He has a pet dog and wanted to have some degree of control when they go out together,... View Details

Aid for drummer

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This lady plays drums at her local church. Unfortunately, her right foot had become too weak to operate either the bass or high hat pedals so, at her request, the pedals were changed over so that the left foot operated... View Details