New Mobility Newsletter – Jan. 21, 2025

Products

Extreme Motus: a wheelchair with a human engine to explore beyond the accessible paths

The Extreme Motus All-Terrrain wheelchair is an aluminum and aluminum aluminum mobility device designed to allow wheelchair users to explore beyond accessible paths and the land. Built with three large and low pressure tires and a resistant but relatively light frame, Extreme Motus design makes it easier for an adult to push a rider through rocky trails, sandy beaches and snowy trails.

News

Medicare now covers intestinal management devices

As of January 13, Medicare will cover intestinal management devices, also known as Transanal Irrigation Devices. As Bob Vogel writes, for many Tai Systems wheelchair users you can change the game, emptying the intestine so completely that users have a 24-48-hour window without having to worry about accidents. Now these effective but expensive systems will be more accessible.

Comic

Please remain sitting: access ramp

Professional tips

How to manage pets as a wheelchair user

“I have read conversations of cat owners who seem to agree that the best thing can do to prevent a cat from being hit with his chair is to run over the cat with his chair,” writes John Beer. Talk to other wheelchair users to go beyond that questionable maximum and learn how they keep their little safe pets, and how they interact and care too.

Adaptive skiing taught me to embrace the evolution of my disability

Be Marihugh Esquó as a child, until the weakness caused by muscle dystrophy made him think that he would have to give up one of his favorite activities. He took years to ski with an open mind. But once he did, he loved it. “As my body continues to change, it is easier to rethink what I had previously considered a” loss “of skill, in the opportunity to be creative and adapt,” he writes.