Wheelchair Replacement Wheels

Okay - I know that sounds weird. ;0)

In May of this year my husband and I were in NY and got side swiped by a city bus. I broke my right shoulder, my collarbone, my elbow and some ribs, I also shattered my right hip, knee, leg and ankle. I've had a right hip replacement and a partial knee replacement. I still have a cast on my leg/ankle - since there's four surgeries, there is a metal plate in the front of my leg and pins in my ankle (we got hit on my side, my husband was driving - and just for the record, he broke his pinky. that was it! lol). Anyway, I was given the wheel chair because I couldn't hold myself up with the crutches, not with my shoulder and everything. After all the surgeries it's just easier for the moment - that and my legs aren't that strong anymore, but I have PT four times a week. ;0) So I'm getting there.

It's like right below my tail bone, right about my *** - it goes numb and hurts a lot - like there's a lot of pressure. The few times I actually get out of the chair (I can walk around for small amounts of time - as long as I use canadian crutches or my actual crutches).

Any suggestions as to what I could do to ease some of the pain. I've heard someone suggest my sciatic nerve (I think I spelled that wrong) - but I'm not sure as to what that is - or how affected it would be by sitting.

Any suggestions are welcome! Thank you!

In case it matters: the pain is a pressure with pain, and when I stand up it's like a shock. It goes up my spine and will last for about ten minutes. The pain is intense though. It's like when you break a bone in the cold and then you go into the house and your skin gets warmer, you have that shock because the pain kicks in cause it's not numb anymore and the pins and needles from your skin heating up.

Does that make sense?

That makes total sense

It's not your sciatica but you are developing a pressure area on your sacral area.

The way to relieve it is quiet easy.

1) Massage the area and surrounding skin to get the blood flowing freely again.

And

2) Take as much pressure off the area as much as you can. By laying down. Changing your butt position. Getting a specialy designed pillow to sit on.

This will help a lot.

Get your hubby, unless you can see right around there, to check for redness.
If there is then start pressure care as above straight away as you are at real risk of skin breakdown and an ulcer occuring.

2008-10-29 02:02:42 by εїз Cяystâiℓℓee εїз

After extensive followup and interviews the need for a repair and replacement program for the over 700000 wheelchairs delivered since 2000 by The ...

Okay - I know that sounds weird. ;0)

In May of this year my husband and I were in NY and got side swiped by a city bus. I broke my right shoulder, my collarbone, my elbow and some ribs, I also shattered my right hip, knee, leg and ankle. I've had a right hip replacement and a partial knee replacement. I still have a cast on my leg/ankle - since there's four surgeries, there is a metal plate in the front of my leg and pins in my ankle (we got hit on my side, my husband was driving - and just for the record, he broke his pinky. that was it! lol). Anyway, I was given the wheel chair because I couldn't hold myself up with the crutches, not with my shoulder and everything. After all the surgeries it's just easier for the moment - that and my legs aren't that strong anymore, but I have PT four times a week. ;0) So I'm getting there.

It's like right below my tail bone, right about my ass - it goes numb and hurts a lot - like there's a lot of pressure. The few times I actually get out of the chair (I can walk around for small amounts of time - as long as I use canadian crutches or my actual crutches).

Any suggestions as to what I could do to ease some of the pain. I've heard someone suggest my sciatic nerve (I think I spelled that wrong) - but I'm not sure as to what that is - or how affected it would be by sitting.

Any suggestions are welcome! Thank you!

Is a pressure ulcer the same as a bed sore - or like it atleast?
In case it matters: the pain is a pressure with pain, and when I stand up it's like a shock. It goes up my spine and will last for about ten minutes. The pain is intense though. It's like when you break a bone in the cold and then you go into the house and your skin gets warmer, you have that shock because the pain kicks in cause it's not numb anymore and the pins and needles from your skin heating up.

Does that make sense?

i really hope you're not developing a pressure ulcer because those can be really difficult to heal. ask you husband to look and see if your skin is all reddened in that area. just google images of pressure ulcers and you'll see what i mean. they are a terrible terrible thing that can lead to big holes in your skin and can also develop bad infections. i'm an RN and i have seen so many over time. just be careful and make sure you change positions as frequently as possible.

2008-10-29 01:47:56 by εїз Cяystâiℓℓee εїз

Capacity:75 lbs each
Diameter: 50mm (2")
Finish: Black

I've having problems with my knee for the past year or so. I was kicking some heavy timbers with the side of my foot to straighten them up when I felt a sharp pain in my knee. I knew I messed something up. I made a doctors Apt. that same day, and by the time I got to the doctors office I couldn't walk. They put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me up to the Dr. office. The doctor had me get some X-rays gave me some pain pills and advised me to stay home for a week or so. Oh he also gave me a shoot of cortisone. after a few weeks the pain went away and the x-rays came back negative. A few months down the road the pain came back and again I could hardly walk. I went back to the doctor and he gave me another shot and some more pills. Again the pain somewhat went away. Let me ad that I am a superintendent for a construction company so I have to walk around the job-site all day. Lately its been acting up more and more. we finally had on MRI done and I went back to the DR. to go over the results. He told me that I have some broken cartilage, which is bruising the bone, and also thinning cartilage. He told me that I could either have a knee arthroscopy or just live with the pain. He said the knee arthroscopy might help and might not. Since my cartilage is already thinning I am concerned about taking out any more causing my knee to be bone on bone. I am wondering if a pain management plan might be better for me at this time than the arthroscopy. As I am only 31 years old, and I have a felling I am going to have knee replacement in the future. I guess bad knees run in the family. my dad is 55 and he recently had both of his knees replaced. Any suggestions you might have to help me make up my mind would be appreciated

If the procedure goes well i think its well worth having done, I turn 30 this year and have had this type of operation done twice, the first when i was 18 when a had a lot of damaged cartilage removed which was fine of a few years until i mangled the same knee on some rocks while scuba-diving The result of that was operation number two at the age of 22, my medial cartilage is now held in place with a gum/rubber band and a few nylon screws, doesn't sound great but i have a very active lifestyle and have virtually no problems at all with the knee except for some minor discomfort in very cold weather. hope this helps best of luck JG

2009-04-22 17:06:47 by Nick

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Great ideas are born at universities, where students are challenged to think up new solutions to problems. Once class is over, these ideas often gather dust. At the University of South Florida, however, a small company is now turning great student ideas into reality. Rather than have student inventions remain on the sketchpad or be purchased by someone else, Rehab Ideas is striving to put them to use.

Rehab Ideas is run by Professor Stephen Sundarrao. He introduces his engineering students to people with disabilities. Then, he asks his students to create products that will help these people.

A few years ago, Travis Watkins was one of Sundarrao's students. When Watkins was asked to design an engineering project to help people with disabilities, the first person who came to mind was his father. His father had once cherished walks along the beach. However, an illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease had left him in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Regular wheelchairs cannot go on the beach. So Watkins came up with a solution. He created a sturdy, wheeled platform that attaches to a wheelchair. It moves easily over uneven, rocky, or sandy ground.

Watkins' wheelchair platform is one of a handful of student creations that Sundarrao believes has potential. Other Rehab Ideas products include an aluminum crutch that folds up neatly to fit into a purse. There is also a mechanical arm that can grab a textbook out of a backpack attached to the back of a wheelchair. Rehab Ideas products add to a commercial field that includes replacement body parts, swimming fins for people who have lost limbs, and adaptive equipment for hunting and fishing.

Rehab Ideas products range in price from $695 for a tray that attaches to a wheelchair to $4,495 for the beach wheelchair platform. Student designers get a small cut of the profits, said Sundarrao. More importantly, they have the experience of seeing their designs become real products for sale. This is an opportunity that most college students don't get. It is made possible because Rehab Ideas is part of the University of South Florida's business incubator. A business incubator is a program that helps young businesses get started. For a price, the University of South Florida's business incubator gives students and faculty support and guidance. It also provides materials and work space.

There are many business incubators at universities around the country. Mike Shipp is director of rehabilitation services at Louisiana Tech University. He says that business incubators not only help businesses, but the universities, too.

"I think what universities recognized several years ago is, if you want to attract … and keep good [teachers], and bring new students in, you have to do what you can to support their research and ideas," Shipp said. "Everyone gains from that."

Sundarrao and his students are certainly gaining from the university's support of Rehab Ideas. The company's clients are benefiting, too, but in a different way. Christopher Rhoades is 19. He uses a wheelchair. Recently, Rhoades visited Sundarrao's class. His mother accompanied him. She watched as Rhoades maneuvered the wheelchair platform designed by Travis Watkins. She cried as Rhoades used the mechanical arm to take a book from the backpack behind his wheelchair.

"It just seems so simple but yet it's such a huge thing. [It is] one less thing that he has to ask someone else to do for him," Rhoades' mother said.

I will let you do it.

Here is how you do it.

Each paragraph's first sentence is a summary of the paragraph. Bring these sentences together and you might see a summary.

Also remember that paragraph one is a summary introduction of the article and the last parapgraph summaries the ideas presented.

Now you know how to do your homework. You know how to fish forever.

2008-12-20 16:24:07 by iƒяεѕн ƒяεακ ™

I am an ex addict. I had gotten very addicted to sniffing coccaine years ago. I am fully recovered now, which is by the grace of God above only. Except for one relapse, I have been clean from it for going on 16 years now, and been free from drinking alcohol for going on 3 years. A near fatal and severe car accident in 1996 had almost left me crippled indefinitely, had it not been for my will to want to walk and better my life again. I spent 2 years in a wheel chair, and was actually told that I would never walk again. But I wanted better, becaue I had not one cent to buy myself new things, and people were treating me like crap. I had also began to gain quite a bit of weight, and at the peak of it, I weighed 405 lbs. at one point. Anyway, after 2 years of being in that wheel chair, I decided to have a surgeon, against his wishes, operate on me and take out the long metal rods from my legs. He reluctlantly did, and I slowly but surely began my journey back to the walking world. In between that time, just after my 1998 surgery, my grandma passed away. A month after her death in the same year, my uncle, who was her son, committed suicide. A month after he killed himself, my mother just suddenly died unexpectantly of a massive heart attack. She was like the best part of what small world that I had at that time. So these deaths, mainly hers, set me back in a depression state of being, which almost caused me to just give up myself. But I pushed through it, and went through undescribable emotional and physical pain. I began to get my self esteem back, which was lost due to family and friends' abuse while I was in the wheelchair and couldn't fend for myself. But I made it, I worked out, and worked hard at it. And now, 10 years later from my family's deaths, here I am; I am waking, running, kicking, and I now weigh not 405 lbs that I did weigh, but I now weigh about 220. I feel great. I am very happily married to a wonderful woman, been m arried going on 3 years now. I had to tell all of this, which I had posted here in Yahoo a time before concerning guilt, in order to ask my medication question. So here goes the question: I had started having some severe cramps and pains in my knees and ankles. I had crushed one knee in the wreck, broke both ankles, and fractured the other knee pretty badly, and had also broken about 3 inches of bone in my upper right femur (leg). Anyway, The pains had started hurting me more, and preventing me from doing certain things that I wanted to do. I have been told several times that I am in need of total knee replacements, but the doctors want to hold off as long as they can due to my age and how long the knee replacements lasts. They would only be able to replace my knees twice, with each time lasting 8 to 10 years. After that, I would prolly be chair/bedridden. Anyway, my family doctor had me start going to a pain management doctor for my problems. The doctor started me on some medication, and I am taking 10/325 mg oxycodone pills, 5 times daily, and also 30 mg extended release morphine pills, 3 times daily. They have tried the anti-inflamatory medicines many times, and some of them I am allergic to, and the otehrs dont work, but just make me gain weight. Sometimes the charlie horses that I get are so unbearable, I come to tears during those episodes. Anyways, Since I have been on those meds, everything in my life has improved. My work performance and stability at my job, which requires standing up 10 to 12 hrs daily. I am able to ride that bicycle that I was told I would never be able to ride. I just can do so much more. Like I said, I have never been addicted to anything except the sniffing of cocaine, which I have been in remission really for about 16 years minus one setback. The pills are very addicting as I have read, but I am not developing that addiction to them. So my questions is that my wife is constantly worrying about me taking those types of medications, being that they are narcotics; and she worries to the point at times to where she totally stresses over them. She is afraid that they are going to kill me, or that they will lead me right back to ujsing cocaine again. I keep telling her that it ain't happening, but she still worries. My doctor is a very good and very careful doctor, and she monitors me with those meds closely. How can or what can I do to calm my wife once and for all that the meds are really helping me, and not a hinderance at all? Since I have been taking them, the charlie horses that makes me cry sometimes have diminished a great deal, and so has the other pains that I was having. But also, should I be worried too, that they will lead me back to the cocaine and booze? It hurts me that my wife is so worried that she becomes agitated and stressful, but I don't know what to do. Her getting that way causes me to worry as well. Can anyone out here provide me with any feedback? I know that I have come

First of all, I have to commend you on your strength. Bravo for fighting to walk again! I also take my hat off to you for staying clean. I have been addicted to prescription meds, and both of my parents are alcoholics, it killed my dad =(
So it would appear that I am at risk to becoming addicted again. That is something I fear very much. I am now married to a wonderful woman, and have 3 great kids and 2 stepsons that I care for very much. It is the fear of failing them that keeps me straight, friend. I have my own set of aches and pains, and am not here to compare mine to yours, but I am here to say that a healthy fear of failing due to any type of drugs may be just what you need to keep yourself straight. Perhaps you can explain this to your wife.
I wish you all the very best, and again, bravo to you for all you have accomplished!

2008-08-30 03:30:19 by Nicholas B