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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XXX
Saturday, March 16th, 2013During my last stay in the wheelchair hotel Mar y Sol in Tenerife (see older blogposts) I wanted to do some physical training when I met the Scotswoman Mary.
On her wheelchair two aluminium tubes were fixed with hose clamps which made me a bit curious.
Even I didn’t know what to do with this construction!!!
On my enquiry it turned out that you put those sticks into the tubes with which you push the rocks at wheelchair Curling. Curling is a very common sport in Scotland. If the term Curling doesn’t mean anything to some of you, it is a sport similar to ice stock sport, but Olympic.
When she took out a black bandage glove which looked a little as if she wanted to enter the boxing ring with me for twelve rounds instead of spreading the ping-pong balls broadly in the gym she started to scare me.
With this special velcro tape glove type Hand Grip she is holding the stick at wheelchair curling with which the rock is pushed, a ping-pong or badminton racket or hockey stick tight in her hand. This is working excellently even though she is quadriplegic like me and has very limited finger functions.
You can use the glove especially well for working out with weights, or supposedly for playing with the “Wii”.
Maybe I should start with a 500 gram weight first, but I do everything for a good shot
The glove is from the English company active hands, who are specialised in gripping aids for handicapped (as well for kids).
I have ordered such a glove in England. It was delivered within a week. The price is quite high with 65 €, but justified.
When you order the glove online beware that the check mark is set for “left glove”. But you can put the left glove on the right hand without problems
The English have always been a little “twisted”, this is probably because the genetic pool of the islanders is exhausted
Now I can finally hold a little hammer when I urgently need to consult my piggy bank.
Translator BL
Wheelchair Tuning Part XXXIII
Saturday, March 9th, 2013Strictly speaking, a wheelchair is nothing else than a shoe!!!
It is not owned by yourself, but by your medical supply store.
Refurbishment and reconstruction are only allowed to be done by the medical supply store for insurance reasons
Except for cleaning you are not allowed to do anything officially…!!!
However I also recommend regular greasing and oiling (see older blogpost).
With a newly prescribed wheelchair you are usually allowed to select the colour, but this is the utmost individuality you can get.
Of course a wheelchair has to fit primarily from a medical point of view, but where is it written that it should not look stylish as well.
The look of the wheelchair reflects the soul of its owner… ommm…
I really have to work on my meditation… eh, medication, well, this is a little bit right however…!!!
The easiest way to change the appearance of your wheelchair is to fix spoke protector discs with motif on the running wheels.
The original reason for spoke protector discs is that such a “buckled finger” like me doesn’t clamp his fingers in the spokes.
Children get these quite expensive discs with logos from football clubs or motifs from Princess Lilifee and other kids characters paid by the health insurance, and the kids are very proud how great their wheelchair is looking.
As old guy you have to pay the discs yourself or drive around with the original health insurance shopper look.
Depending on the company, you have a choice of dozens of motifs “ready-made”, but you can get almost every picture printed on the discs as well.
Believe me, I have seen quite weird things.
You can let your creativity “run wild“.
I have now got my own discs produced, in fact according to my own design with personal reference:
With such an eye-catcher the wheelchair is not so much seen as medical device anymore and can even ease some situations. Especially kids react unbiased to the motif and don’t have any fear of contact.
I have got the discs produced at an innovative family company (contact on request at rollinator@eigude.de).
If you are on 25.-27. April 2013 visiting the REHAB in Karlsruhe, keep the eyes open if you discover my motif at one of the booths
A physiotherapist noticed once with expert’s eye that the lion is an above-knee amputee…
I was just in this moment in the swimming pool, forgot to move the arms and was almost drowning.
Translator BL
Addendum Technical Aids Tips and Tricks VII
Thursday, July 12th, 2012I have already reported on 01.04.2010 about a
vertical magnet key holder
It is nothing new that a wheeler is wearing a couple of key chains every now and then.
Slowly this technique gets a little annoying and a bit out of hand…!!!
(picture is not faked!!!)
If the chains are collectively lying around, for no apparent reason a Gordian knot is formed again and again. I explain this by the momentum.
Therefore I have meanwhile established a key chain
hanging board parking place.
Maybe I should sort the key chains by spectral colours.
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Sport News Part II
Saturday, March 17th, 2012The sun beds in the Mar y Sol in Tenerife at the pool are extra high for us wheelers so that it is easier to transfer.
But because constant hanging around on the sun bed can lead to permanent back disorders I decided to perform some complementary training.
After the training match of the Swedish national team in wheelchair rugby (see older blogpost) the sports hall of our hotel was available for us tourists again.
The idea of my mates to play wheelchair hockey I found quite appealing.
Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away… or roundabout 25 years ago it was the last time when I had a hockey stick in my hands.
At this time I was playing hockey at the club SC 1880 Frankfurt until the last youth age class. Back then of course with real wooden sticks.
The plastic sticks were not heavy at all with about 200 g. But there it was again, the challenge: How to play hockey when you are not able to hold the hockey stick because of the paralysis of the hands as quadriplegic.
The first attempts to bind the stick onto the arm with bandages and theraband did not lead to the desired success.
With black duct tape a match overlasting
Hockey stick-hand-arm-adaption
could be achieved. I was quite satisfied with the result, and the wheelchair hockey match was fun.
After the match there was actually only one loser, my skin…!!!
Wheelchair hockey is excellently suitable for permanent hair removal
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