Sep 14

DoAbility offers several products designed to help people with disabilities have comfort and support in bed, such as rope ladders, bed cradles, horizontal bars, floor support, end attachments, and bed rails.

Swereco’s Rope Ladder is used as an aid to rise from the bed, or even from the tub. It is made up of five pins mounted to a nylon rope, and the bottom ends of the cords are tied around the bed legs. The plastic ladder enables the person to pull herself up with a hand over hand movement.

The Bed Cradle, on the other hand, keeps the blanket from getting in contact with tender parts of the body.

Another set of products by Swereco, the Horizontal Bar and Bed Rails are easy to lift off before making the bed. The bar can be changed from right- to left-hand use. These are designed to assist a person in rising or sitting up on the bed. They are also used as protection from rolling out of bed. The Bed Rail may be combined with the Horizontal Bar or another Bed Rail.

The end attachments and floor support are used for the Horizontal Bar and Bed Rails.

Quite often, using the right mobility equipment will allow a person to be less dependent or require less assistance from their caregiver.

Sep 13

Disability can affect your sex life in a lot of ways. If you have a physical disability, especially that which involves mobility, it can influence the way you take on sexual activities, the way sex feels, and your access to sexual partners, specifically in public places, where most spaces are not completely convenient, and meeting people and flirting can be hard or unattainable depending on your disability.

When envisaging sex and physical disability, one of the main barriers is a lack of imagination and innovative sexual problem solving. If you consider that the only means to have sex concerns an erect penis and well-lubricated vagina, you are way behind time. When you recognize that there is more to sex than mere intercourse, what you will get are better opportunities and lesser obstacles.

What makes experiencing good sex and having a disability tricky has a lot more to do with the general public than it does with the person with disability. What keeps people with disabilities down is the misguided belief that their sexual isolation was some internal fault.

There are numerous factors that may make the life of a disabled person more complicated when it comes to sex. There is the lack of access to sex education and lesser opportunities to find and have sexual activities. In addition, even if you can actually get into a bar, club, or pub, the social standards about how to meet people, flirt, and pick up rule out most people with disabilities.

Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of a sexuality guru, what is essential is to recognize the social systems that make it complex to sexually express yourself if you have a disability, while simultaneously, always remembering that disability and sexuality are distinct experiences and identities that suit and feel different on every person.

Sep 5

For more than 30 years, Swereco has been providing equipment and tools to make the lives of the handicapped and elderly people as normal and as comfortable as possible.

From its humble beginnings, it has founded a competitive company with faster and more personal service compared to its competitors. At present, Swereco is an even more superior company, but still encompass the essential aspiration and modesty to its customers and the reality.

Giving excellent customer service and offering high quality products at a reasonable price have been Swereco’s primary principles since 1973. Their headquarters is situated in Stockholm, Sweden. They have their own manufacturing plant located in Lenhovda in the southern part of Sweden.

Swereco’s credit rating has been, for many years, ranked AAA by a recognized finance company. For their customers this means safety and security. This guarantees that Swereco products will always be in the market and will continually provide good quality service.

Structure, value, and environmental consciousness are also some of Swereco’s priorities, proof of which are their certification of the Quality Management System of SS-EN ISO 9001:2000 and the Environmental Management System of SS-EN ISO 14001:2004.

Swereco manufactures and delivers a large assortment of effective and reasonably priced products. In addition, aside from their standard collection of mobility aids, they also have products for individual user needs.

Swereco’s most popular products include the folding travel cane, children’s toilet seat, walking frame for kids, wheelchair cushions, and shower benches among others.

DoAbility is the exclusive distributor of Swereco products in the United Kingdom.

Sep 5

If you are recuperating from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, your physician or physical therapist may arrange a physical rehabilitation program for you that regard your normal pursuits, fitness, and degree of your injury.

A rehabilitation program must involve toning, flexibility, and cardio exercises, as well as conditioning and power workouts for athletes.

The action of muscles in the leg with ACL must be as powerful as in the leg without injury prior to returning to your normal activities.

The rehab program is commonly made up of a therapy center appointment with a physical therapist and a personal regimen at home, at a gym, or in a health club. Mainly, as you have lesser consultations with your therapist, you become more independent in your program.

The amount of time it will take for you to improve relies on the severity of your ACL injury, the extent of the surgery, and your consistency in following the program, which usually takes 4 to 6 months. Patients who stick to their rehab program get better faster and have lesser knee complications afterwards compared to those who have not completed their program.

Rehabilitation is a necessity after nearly all ACL injuries, with or without surgery involved. Rehab programs make the knee stronger and its adjacent muscles, conducting better knee strength, and allowing you to gain back the normal range of motion and resilience of your knee.

The efficacy of a rehab program depends on what treatment/s you have, like whether you had surgery then a rehab program, or whether you do rehab only, and how dedicated you are with your program.

It is vital that your healthcare provider set up your expectations on the rehab program. This will be based on how old you are, how extensive your injury is, and how healthy you are.

A number of people who do rehab only are able to get back enough steadinesses in their knee to carry on with their normal lives without having to undergo surgery. Nevertheless, other people, most especially athletes, who have unfortunate results and never recovered from their injury can either have surgery or give up their sports.

If you do rehab without surgery, there is more likely that your ACL can be aggrieved again.

Competitive athletes who undergo surgery and then do rehab religiously have a greater chance of recovery.

Rehabilitation programs must be extremely supervised to make sure that the exercises are suitable and the degree of development is appropriate for you. The contingencies of a rehab program are progressing very quickly during rehab that may actually weaken the fixed ligament, as well as beginning sports training early. You will jeopardize your knee if you do not finish your program, or breeze through it without doing each exercise training properly.

Physical rehabilitation for an ACL injury is far-reaching. A few people think of it as having an additional job. Discuss with your physician the span or depth of your rehab program.

If you devotedly participate in a program, you could avoid or postpone the need for a knee surgery by building up your quadriceps and hamstrings, which support the knee. If surgery is finally needed, you would be more ready for surgery and rehab after surgery.

Just always remember that not all physical rehabilitation programs are alike.