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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Combined Bed Side Table and Standing Aid

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A very sturdy bed table, bolted to the bed and doubling as a sit-to-stand aid for a visually impaired client. View Details

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

Standing Aid

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A client's left leg is 5.5 inches shorter than her right. A custom stand was made to make transfers from and onto her wheelchair a lot easier. View Details

Sofa Arm-Rest

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A client needed help with sitting to standing from their sofa. Raising the sofa alone was not sufficient as he needed something to press down on. 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

Ambiturn belt extension kit

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We were contacted by an OT who was having difficulty securing the belt around a client who was using an Ambiturn sit-to-stand aid.  A larger belt wasn't obtainable. View Details

Support chair

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Our client had weak posture resulting in pronounced leaning to the right both standing and seated, and wanted to feel supported and held in a more upright position whilst seated at the dining table. 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

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

Sit-to-stand sling modification

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The client uses a MiniLift sit-to-stand aid for transfers but the sling is unsuitable. The Oxford Journey aid has a more suitable sling, but the aid itself is too large to maneuver inside the client's home and its sling uses... View Details

Alternative to sofa raising

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Lynne has poor strength in her lower body and finds getting on and off her sofa almost impossible. She thought the answer might be to raise the sofa, as we have done so many times before. But the sofa was... 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

Mini Lift Platform Footrest

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The client has Cerebral Palsy affecting all four limbs. She mobilises in a powered height adjustable wheelchair. She is weight bearing with support and uses a Mini Lift 125 for transfers. She previously had work done on her old Mini... View Details

Molift Knee Blocks

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The client had had recent surgery, preventing him from being able to transfer independently by standing following a surgery. This meant that he was having to be lifted by mum or hoisted at school. School had tried to use a... View Details

Standing Frame Modification

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The client uses a standing frame at school; but as she uses it, she twists her trunk. The Physio was keen to try and prevent her being able to twist so much by adding taller elbow blocks. The School Physio... View Details

Wheelchair-mounted turn disc

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The client uses a turning disc when transfering from his wheelchair. Normally, this would be mounted on the floor and the wheelchair footrests moved out of the way. The wheelchair footrests are fixed, so a de-mountable method of fixing the... View Details

Standing-up aid

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This lady had muscle weakness in her legs and having had bilateral hip replacements had limited movement, limiting her social life as she cannot rise from a chair without assistance. It was found that the weight on the seat reduced... View Details

Standing assistance

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Muscular dystrophy had led to this man being unable to straighten up from a “toe-touching” position. A cordless screwdriver was used to elevate the cross arms of a standing aid and raise his body to the vertical. He could now... View Details

Arms for ejector seat

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A girl with muscular dystrophy had difficulty getting in and out of a chair, even with the assistance of an ejector seat, due to lack of upper limb strength. She required outside help at all times for this purpose. Two e-commode... View Details

Arm extensions to riser chair

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The client needed extra leverage and support when standing up from her chair and the existing arms did not give her this support.  Wooden extending arms were made and great effort was made to match the existing wood finish on... View Details

Air cushion sit-to-stand aid

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Winifred, who has a muscle -wasting disease, needed assistance to stand up from her chair before using a walking frame. An air bag made of tough boating material was placed on the chair seat and attached to a Bravo air... View Details