AbleChair Benefits
Tilt & Recline
The AbleChair provides extensive independent adjustments, allowing users to tailor the tilt angle and seat angle to their specific requirements. These functions offer numerous benefits:
- Pressure Relief: Maintains range of motion to prevent discomfort and skin issues.
- Managing Spasticity: Assists in controlling muscle spasticity, enhancing comfort and movement.
- Increased Sitting Tolerance: Enhances the duration of comfortable seating for users.
- Facilitates Weight Shifts: Enables crucial weight shifts to prevent pressure ulcers and enhance comfort.
- Improved Blood Circulation: Promotes better overall health through enhanced circulation.
- Enhanced Lung Function: Contributes to better lung function with optimal positioning.
- Posture Improvement: Prevents poor postures caused by fatigue, ensuring better body alignment and comfort.
Elevated & Lowered Sitting
Empowering individuals with disabilities to effortlessly adjust their seating height—whether higher or lower—has never been more accessible! The extended lift adjustment of the AbleChair offers a versatile range, allowing increased elevated sitting and goes beyond, granting users the option of lowered seating, even to floor level. The benefits are multifaceted:
- Elevated Sitting: Fosters eye-level conversations, promotes better posture, and offers psychological comfort during interactions.
- Enhanced Access: Improves reach to higher-level objects for increased independence in daily tasks.
- Lowered Sitting: Enables access to floor-level objects and facilitates floor transfers. Uniquely, the AbleChair lowers its seat completely to ground level, simplifying activities such as caring for a baby or engaging in yoga for individuals with spinal cord injuries. This exceptional feature sets it apart, catering to diverse needs.
- Increased productivity - due to increased vertical range of reach or access.
Standing & Assisted Gait Training
The AbleChair revolutionizes standing and gait training by integrating height adjustment, full-range tilt, and seat adjustments. As the sole device offering optimal assisted gait therapy with controlled weight bearing, it enables users to practice walking at home without transfers or clinic visits, expediting recovery. Benefits include:
- Accelerated gait recovery.
- Relief from muscle tension and spasms.
- Enhanced bone density and bowel function through standing exercises.
- Reduction of spasticity and improved blood circulation.
- Expanded diaphragm space for better breathing.
- Mitigated muscle atrophy, reduced fatigue, and improved well-being.
- Promotion of joint and bone health, enhancing mobility and flexibility.
- Promotion of an active lifestyle and heightened visual awareness.
Transfers
The AbleChair reduces the need for transfers because of the versatility and allows transfers seamlessly when needed including floor, bed, chair and toilet transfers.
Powered Mobility & Wireless Controls
The AbleChair is designed as a full-featured power wheelchair, combining adaptability with robust structure to grant users confident and seamless mobility. Equipped with essential features like speed limit settings, electromagnetic braking, and drive engagement levers, it ensures comprehensive control and safety across various environments.
- Removable wireless joystick controls address specific user needs:
- Enabling caregiver control for users.
- Providing convenient joystick placement after utilizing the overhead harness.
- Facilitating easy adjustment of the AbleChair's proximity.
- Allowing users to monitor chair functions from a distance.
These features collectively create a safer environment, decreasing the likelihood of falls and associated injuries.
Fall & Injury Prevention
The AbleChair offers various advantages to prevent falls and injuries:
- Enhanced Stability: Its balanced design reduces tipping hazards.
- Safe Transfers: Facilitates safe transfers, lowering the risk of falls.
- Spasticity Management: Helps manage muscle spasticity, reducing falls.
- Fall-Preventive Positioning: Enables safe reclining and tilting.
- Gait Training Safety: Allows safe home-based gait training.
- Improved Independence: Reduces dependency, minimizing fall risks.
Dignity and Self-respect
The AbleChair boosts users’ dignity and self-respect by providing:
- Independence: Enables self-reliance in daily tasks.
- Privacy and Comfort: Offers personalized adjustments for comfort and privacy.
- Therapeutic Support: Aids in therapy and rehabilitation, fostering a sense of accomplishment.
- Social Inclusion: Assists in social interactions at eye level.
- Gait Training Safety: Allows safe hoImproved Well-being: Enhances overall quality of life and self-perception.me-based gait training.