You can always find something new on the Rehacare in Düsseldorf.
However you have to look closely at some vehicles to recognize the range of use.
Quite often you see things from the past coming back. This supposed-to-be new technical achievement is obviously a medieval upgrade.
An
Offroad Palanquin Chair
with a battery-powered supporting middle wheel is quite special.
It is made by: www.ferriol-matrat.com and makes trekking tours through virtually every terrain possible. The company also makes other innovative technical aids.
There is also the variant of a
Semi-palanquin Offroad Chair
with two middle wheels so that the wheelchair doesn’t fall over, for just one pusher.
You can rent such a wheelchair in various places in Germany for trekking tours. For more detailed information please contact the producer!!!
Now I just need two sherpas, and I can climb the Taunus mountain range again via the north face
Since one year, I am going to the Frankfurt University twice a week, and I don’t mean the University medical center this time, which you may think in my age…
It’s quite impressive when I announce sitting in my wheelchair that I don’t have time because I have to go the sports university
… no, I am not training explicitly for the next Paralympics…
I am there in a project group for
Stochastic Resonance Therapy (STR-Therapy)
This therapy, co-developed by the institute of sports sciences in Frankfurt/Main, transmits low-frequency (6-12 Hz), randomized vibrations by two plates independent of each other. *
The effect is quite complex.
In simple words, the feet are fixed onto 2 aluminium plates, or as pedestrian you stand on the plates.
These plates move/rattle heavily and simulate walking to the body. The nerves are stimulated and suppose walking to the brain.
The success especially for people with walking disabilities is remarkable.
More information on Stochastic Resonance Therapy and experience reports and equipment (in German): click here and click here.
Except for the STR equipment there is normal workout equipment as well. A sports therapist is always available for us.
The training with other handicapped people is fun, and of course there is an intense exchange of experiences.
I wouldn’t have thought that I ever would visit a gym voluntarily. There are still places available in the project.
In the video you can see Jens Maspfuhl, reigning 6-times German champion in Wheelchair Golf. He is chairman of the private incorporated society “German accident and disaster relief”
DUK-Deutsche Unfall und Katastrophenhilfe e.V.
This society is sponsor of the project and is funding it by donations and sustaining memberships.
The society also supports successfully a vocational school for disabled people of the “Father Ray Foundation” in Thailand, many of them wheelchair users.
Because of the flooding the price for rice has increased dramatically, and therefore the Foundation needs support to feed more than 800 people per day.
Additionally, the fundless highly quadriplegic young Thai woman Nuch is supported.
There are still some donation receipts and sustaining memberships left. Donate quickly before everything is gone…
Every donation is well received in the projects, I am sustaining member myself and have donated several times!!!
Somewhere I can be seen with Jens on one of the cross-fading pictures on the DUK homepage, 16 pictures after the German minister of finance Schäuble
Since the summer 2013 has found us as well I have the prototype of a cooling shirt, also from the company E-cooline in permanent test mode, and I am happy.
Read the comments to the blogposts, there are some tips of other readers!!!
Final Report European Wheelchair Basketball Championship 2013 in Frankfurt
End of the European Championship…!!!
The German women showed an impressive performance throughout the whole tournament in their matches.
Except for the heart-stopping final which they unfortunately lost with only one basket difference against Holland they have won all their matches.
They thrilled me the whole week. 2nd place, chapeau…!!!
Look closely, in Frankfurt they don’t only get a cup, but also a ”Bembel”.
A “Bembel“ is the traditional blue-and-grey stone ware jug, depository of the Hessian national drink apple cider. It is used to pour the drink into the legendary 0,3 l glass with rhomb design.
Source: Me
Back to the European Championship…
Our men played a tournament with quite some ups and downs, but secured with a sweeping match against Holland place 6 and the qualification for the next World Championship.
The men’s final was Great Britain vs. Turkey, an exciting match at eye level.
Great Britain won the match by one point.
They were singing “God save the Queen” so ghastly that they are probably hit with a lawsuit for criminal assault now.
I thought it was a bit of a shame that the two blocks of Turkish fans, who made a great atmosphere during the match by loudly cheering for their team, almost completely left the hall after the lost match and didn’t stay for the cup presentation of their team.
Now an unforgettable week is over where I haven’t only seen lots of sport, but also collected lots of material for new blogposts and built new contacts.
During the European Championship my desk has changed its colour without my interference from black to white. I think I have to take care about the backlog of administration now… grrr… Outside sun and 26°C ;-( and I am sitting here…
The complete women’s team plus coach and physiotherapists have signed on my “Lion shirt” which I got for my appearance as “Cheering Extra” for the image film “Frankfurt is spinning the wheel” (see older blogpost).
Our German man are still flagging a bit, match against Switzerland at 12:15 h… they’re gonna make it…!!!
He is one of the pioneers in our country who are shredding with their chair through the half pipe and do some tricks in the skater park.
When he rolls to the edge of the halfpipe he has enough space most of the times because the skaters and bikers stand still and watch extremely interested if the guy with the chair really wants to get down there.
“ChairSkating”
is already popular in the USA for some time, and even kids have fun with it.
Just have a look into Youtube under WCMX, there are a lot of cool videos.
Some weeks ago, the German Wheelchair Sport Association has organized a workshop for “Chairskating” with young people and of course David.
You should be quite fit to try out this sport.
When you pursue this sport reasonably with appropriate protection equipment and special wheelchair, the risk for injuries is manageable.
A hand cycle is fairly inappropriate for the half pipe
I have decided to engage in the future instead of Chair skating into Extreme Wheelchair Origami.
On Friday I was at the discount supermarket with the big L and looked at the offers for the coming week.
You should have taken a picture of my face, I am still a bit speechless!!!
As far as I remember we have in Germany doctors, health insurances and medical supply stores who take care about the patients supply of medical devices, and not the supermarkets…
Why does a discount supermarket suddenly sell rollators???
Did I miss something???
I am missing a medical device number in the flyer.
Who will adjust the rollator to the user, and what about maintenance, repair and liability???
Please post a comment…
Do I have to buy my next wheelchair at IKEA and screw it together myself out of two Billy shelves?
