Pool Lifts
SUREHANDS®, Pine Island, NY, presents the SURHANDS® Wheelchair-to-Water™ Lifts, which provide safe and easy pool access. Users can go directly from a wheelchair into the water in one effortless movement. To accommodate special needs, the company offers hydraulic, motorized, and seat pool lifts, and a variety of transferring accessories, along with a newly available motorized spa lift. The Wheelchair-to-Water Lifts are ideal for rehab centers, schools, homes, hotels, health clubs, and public pools. (800) 724-5305; www.surehands.com.
Gait Trainer
Biodex Medical Systems, Shirley, NY, introduces the Gait Trainer 2. Audio and visual biofeedback prompts proper gait patterns of step length, speed, and length variability (step symmetry). The Gait Trainer 2 features an easy-to-use, color, touch-screen display to automatically calculate the speed needed to achieve the desired step cycle; a zero starting speed; 0.1 mph speed increments; belt speed range from 0 to 10 mph with -3% to 15% grade; heart rate monitoring; and data storage on up to 500 patients. (800) 224-6339; www.biodex.com.
Therapy and Fitness Handle
TherapyZone Inc, Denver, introduces the MARV™ 3-Way Therapy and Fitness Handle, used for pronation, supination, ulnar and radial deviation, flexion, and extension when combined with any resistance tube. Users can perform these important wrist and elbow exercises easily and effectively with this one flexible tool. (800) 822-2889; www.therapyzone.com.
Wheelchair
Innovation In Motion, Angola, Ind, presents the X5-Frontier, a wheelchair designed to combine off-road capability with mid wheel drive performance. The X5-Frontier is now available with Amysystem's Seat Elevator/TIS Combination, which has 55-degree tilt-in-space, a 10-inch seat elevator, and a combo seating system that can be used with MPS or Rehab Seating. Off-road, the X5-Frontier's high-performance, high-speed four pole motors provide nearly 1,000 watts of mid wheel power and are matched with the all-digital, computer-assisted driving system. (800) 327-0681; www.mobility-usa.com.
