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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One-handed Rollator brake – one brake, two wheels

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The client could only use one hand to brake his four-wheel Rollator. This meant that sometimes, the Rollator would swing wildly and had resulted in occasional falls. The solution made the Rollator much more stable when the right-hand brake was... View Details

4-wheel walker HEIGHT EXTENSION

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Extending the handles of a 4-wheel walker using 3D printed parts and carbon fibre tube. View Details

Single handed walking frame

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Single handed walking frames used to be available commercially but production was stopped many years ago. The panel was requested to convert standard frames to single handed versions by various NHS therapists. Since we started making them in 2004 we... View Details

Rollator handle modifications

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Our client was in the rehabilitation ward of a local hospital, and the standard palm rest on the rollator she was walking with was uncomfortable, and a twisted wrist/arm meant the angle of holding it was uncomfortable too.  Remap were... View Details

4-wheeled Walker adaptation

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Our client’s Occupational Therapist had asked for a four-wheeled walker leased from Medequip to be adapted to enable our client to have the mobility to safely walk to the local shops. Following a stroke in 2008, our client has suffered... View Details

Rollator carrier for electric chair

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The challenge was to construct a bracket to hold a three wheeled Rollator onto a electric chair so the client could access smaller shops that his chair would not fit into. View Details

Child’s exercise bars

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A 20-month old child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) required a set of parallel bars for exercise. View Details

Four Wheeled Walker Brakes

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Our client needs to use a 4 wheeled walker to walk outside, but she also has bad arthritis in her hands and is unable to muster the strength to apply the brakes. Consequently, she was effectively house bound. View Details

Tray walker see-through top

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Our client uses a "tray walker" to help with her mobility and to carry things around the house, but being of moderate stature, was struggling to manoeuvre it with the top tray in place as it tended to block her... View Details

Zimmer frame arm gutter supports

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Our client is of very short stature with significant posture issues.  She had been using a child's zimmer to help her walk, which had previously been modified to have an extra set of wheels, but this wasn't providing the support... View Details

Reduce height of 3-wheeled walker

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The client found that the height of her 3-wheeled walker could not be adjusted low enough for her.  Often, this can be easilly achieved by drilling extra adjustment holes and/or cutting the frame a bit lower, but this would not... View Details

Walker stability

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As the 9 year old user of the Lecky walker has grown, the walker has become unsafe and liable to topple over due to the narrow track between the large wheels when he plays energetically. The manufacturer was unable to... View Details

Rollator arm gutter support

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Our client had suffered a stroke, leaving her with a poor gait, and her right arm with a degree of pain, discomfort and reduced dexterity.  A standard issue arm gutter zimmer frame was unsuitable for her.  Four wheeled arm gutter rollators... View Details

Child’s Parallel Bars

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The client has CP and needs help to gain confidence to walk without his wheeled walker. View Details

Gutter frame customisation

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The client is 6 feet 4 inches and could not find a gutter frame to suit his height. The requirement was for two complete frames to allow the client to be discharged from hospital. View Details

I can jump waves on holiday!

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5 year-old boy (one of twins) with Cerebral Palsy, who has recently had surgery to enable him to stand, planning going on their first family holiday to the beach. He wanted to use his ‘K’ Walker on the sand and... View Details

Clear Walker Tray

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The client broke a hip 6 months previously, and has resulting Neuropathy in his feet, and uses a wheeled walker. He needs to be able to see his feet in order not to trip. However, he likes to be able... View Details

Modified Tray

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A child who used a wheeled walker at School for mobility wanted to be able to collect his lunch from the canteen and take it to his table as all classmates do. The client's OT asked if we could enable... View Details

Single Handed Walker

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Client has had a stroke and is weak on the right hand side.  She requires a walker with a fitted crossbar between the handles to assist stability for single-handed use when walking. View Details

Oxygen attachment for walker

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The client needed to have her oxygen cylinder with her when she went shopping with her 4-wheeled walker; the cylinder could fit into the basket under the seat but the seat could not be then used if she needed a... View Details

Tray rollator arm supports

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Margaret is blind and has a “combination trolley walker” on which she keeps the things she needs on a daily basis to hand, but it had conventional rollator handles that didn’t provide the level of support and stability she needed... View Details

Rollator brakes

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A client has a progressive muscle weakness, that particularly affects hand grip, walking and balance. He is having trouble operating the brakes on his wheeled walker and this makes him feel very unsafe. View Details

Reduce width of 3-wheeled walker

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Original over-centre locking linkage with frame in closed position … … and locked in open position. New fixed linkage Spacer added The finished narrower rollator The client’s 3-wheeled folding rollator was too wide to pass easily through the doorways in... View Details

Trolley walking frame

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A child with Downs Syndrome cannot walk unaided.  At his Montessori school, he need to be able to select his own activity from where it is stored and take it to his table. He requires a trolley to provide him... View Details