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.

All Solutions

Making arms weightless

0 comments

The client has an unusually severe case of osteoporosis resulting in difficulties in lifting her hands to her mouth and being able to feed herself. A frame of 25 mmx 2mm mild steel box section has been welded together and... View Details

Motorised Head Support

0 comments

The head support was designed for a client whose head has dropped forward and to the left. (Photos show head support on a different sofa) View Details

Utensil aid for a quadruple amputee

0 comments

A cutlery holder made by Perth & Kinross Panel for an upper limb amputee, plus a similar device seen on the internet, provided some ideas. Unfortunately neither of these were appropriate for our client who had higher amputations, ie she... View Details

Bespoke Cutlery

0 comments

This was a project that involved the creation of customised cutlery supports for two clients. The primary client initiated the request via the carer and the second client was in the same care home with similar needs, and so the... View Details

Life without fingers and thumbs

0 comments

Our client contracted Covid fairly early on, which led to sepsis and necessitated the amputation of all fingers and thumbs. Help from the NHS was coming but not in the immediate future. I visited with her Occupational Therapist and saw... View Details

Bespoke Cutlery for Post Polio Sufferer

2 comments

Hazel suffers with manual dexterity following polio. She needed a set of cutlery that allows her to feed herself, which fits her hands comfortably, and will not degrade in the dishwasher. Earlier bespoke cutlery lost its shape in hot water... View Details

Tilting bed

0 comments

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

Parkinsons chair support

2 comments

When sitting at a table the client gradually leans over to the left. So something was needed to sit on a range of different chairs to stop this happening. The solution also needed to fold down so it could be... View Details

Bespoke Cutlery

1 comments

The client has limited use of his left hand due to a stroke. His physiotherapist had made an adaption to his fork so he could stabilise food for cutting with his unaffected right hand. However, the adaption wasn't quite fit... View Details

Adapted thin and light cutlery.

0 comments

The challenge was to find a way of making very light cutlery items with thin grippy handles, with the fork and spoon both being angled. View Details

Plastic table for lady with severe allergies

0 comments

She sits the majority of her time in a plastic garden chair and needs a table to put her meal plate on which is served to her by her carer. View Details

Nutria Feed Opener

2 comments

A very active and independent lady in her 90s, has to have “Nutria” line feed overnight. But to open the feed, you have press down & twist to break the seal, and she lacks the strength and dexterity to open... View Details

Child’s Counterbalanced Arm Supports

0 comments

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

Relocate Feeding Tube Stand

0 comments

The Occupational Therapist contacted us saying: "Somebody from Remap previously made a fantastic stand to attach this child's overnight tube feed to his profiling bed. This attached into the existing socket on the bed-frame at the head end of the... View Details

Palm Free Cutlery

2 comments

Philippa is unable to tolerate pressure in the palms of her hands, making it difficult to hold or grip cutlery. Off-the-shelf equipment does not offer a suitable solution. The OT had made a cutlery holder that fits around the back... View Details

Replacements for amputated hands

0 comments

The loss of both hands meant that the lady had no hand function and was totally reliant on others to feed, write and many other things.  Whilst there are many prosthetic hands under development, there are not immediately available on... View Details

Spork-lift

0 comments

Following a serious accident, the client is unable to raise his hands much above waist-level and accordingly is unable to feed himself using conventional cutlery. A long-handled fork was made for him (KW1448) which has proved successful, but he would... View Details

Plate holder/mover

0 comments

The client only has use of his left hand and feeding himself was difficult. His right hand would spasm and knock any tray or plate away from him. He also wished to move the plate away from him when he... View Details

Microwave transfer

0 comments

Garry, who has muscular dystrophy, required a shelf near his microwave as he had difficulty carrying hot dishes from the microwave to his table. Part of the problem was resolved by changing the position of his microwave. A shelf was... View Details

Microwave cooking helper

0 comments

This lady has little strength in her hands and wrists and was unable to remove containerised meals from a microwave oven and transfer food to a bowl. A device was produced which holds the container when slid out of the... View Details

Mechanical eater

0 comments

Client has arthrogryposis which limits his upper limb and hand functions making eating from a plate at table level very difficult. A wooden tower was made to support the food plate nearer to mouth level. A mechanical lever mechanism enables... View Details

Looped cutlery

0 comments

The client was unable to grip cutlery normally, so help was requested. The solution was to add loops to two sets of cutlery through which, with help, he could slide his fingers. The loops were made from copper tube, and... View Details

Inserts for wheelchair tray

0 comments

A wheelchair using client with multiple sclerosis has poor grip and shaking hands and was unable to feed self unless plates and bowls were positioned at functional height and stabilised to avoid spillage. MDF was used to make a tray... View Details

Feeding machine

0 comments

Hazel, who has motor neurone disease, could not lift her arms far and had very little grip. Consequently she had to be fed by her husband. She wanted to be more independent for both eating and drinking. A machine was... View Details