Pride Mobility Chairman and CEO calls on HHS Secretary to investigate potentially problematic standard power chair bids in Riverside, Calif. bidding area.
The editors of Home Health Products’ sister publications, Elisha Bury
of Respiratory Management and Laurie Watanabe of Mobility Management, have each selected a product in their market segments that caught their attention. Here are their selections this month:
Kids need to move. Movement is the way they learn, the way they gain strength, the way they explore their environments and grow, physically and intellectually. That’s true for children in wheelchairs, too.
A pediatric power chair must work on a number of levels. It must meet medical needs as defined by rehab professionals. But it must also please its user, which means it must fit in on the playground, in the classroom and at home. In other words, a power chair also needs to be cool.