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Cost: $500 | Weight limit: 265 lbs. | Travel range or battery life: 12.4 miles | Weight of scooter: 90 lbs. | Folding design: Yes | Max speed: 3.7 mph Mobility scooters can cause a serious dent in ...
A mobility aid is a device that helps individuals with mobility impairments to walk or improve their overall mobility. [1]These aids range from walking aids, which assist those with limited walking capabilities, to wheelchairs and mobility scooters, which are used for severe disabilities or longer distances that would typically be covered on foot.
A mobility scooter is an electric personal transporter used as mobility aid for people with physical impairment, mostly auxiliary to a powered wheelchair but configured like a motorscooter. When motorized they function as micromobility devices and are commonly referred to as a powered vehicle/scooter, or electric scooter. Non-motorized mobility ...
The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy was the founding name of the AOTA. Occupational therapy was launched as a new profession at the first meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy at Consolation House, Clifton Springs, New York in March 1917. The Society was founded by a small group of ...
Micromobility company Bird is boosting its president, Shane Torchiana, to CEO status in a "long-planned" shakeup that sees founding chief executive Travis VanderZanden further stripped of power.
Occupational therapy (OT), also known as ergotherapy, is a healthcare profession. Ergotherapy is derived from the Greek ergon which is allied to work, to act and to be active. Occupational therapy is based on the assumption that being active is a basic human need and that purposeful activity has a health-promoting and therapeutic effect.
A motorized wheelchair, powerchair, electric wheelchair, or electric-powered wheelchair (EPW) is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric motor (usually using differential steering) rather than manual power.
A knee scooter is a related device with some features of a wheelchair and some walking aids. Unlike wheelchairs they are only suitable for below knee injuries to a single leg. The user rests the injured leg on the scooter, grasps the handlebars, and pushes with the uninjured leg. Some walkers can be used as a wheelchair. These walkers have seat ...