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Entries for the ‘Medical’ Category

Healthtrax Therapy Pool and Steam Room

250 Faunce Corner Rd.
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
Phone: (508)999-2171

www.healthtrax.com
 

Last week my mom treated me to a membership of 
Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center  after seeing how fully wheelchair accessible it is as well as the great equipment/programs they have to offer to persons in wheelchairs.
This week I went to Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center on Monday, […]

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Mounts for Wheelchair Seatbelt

Body Point Designs
558 First Avenue South
Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone:  800-547-5716

http://www.bodypoint.com/

Wheelchair manufacturers clearly state that their wheelchair seatbelts are used ONLY for posture positioning and support and are NOT designed or intended to protect wheelchair seated passengers in a vehicle during transport. Yet since there are no State or Federal laws requiring a wheelchair seated passenger to […]

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Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center

250Faunce Corner Rd.
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
Phone: (508)999-2171

www.healthtrax.com
 

My friend told me that he loves working out at Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center because they have some adaptive machines that he can use while sitting in his wheelchair and a great heated therapy pool. I decided to check it out for I am definitely in need of […]

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Journey Forward

755 Dedham Street
Canton, MA 02021
Phone: 781-828-3233

www.Journey-Forward.org

Bryan Rinaldi, Certified Rehab Technology Specialist and Licensed OTA of 
Hudson Home Health Care/Rehab Equipment invited my mom, friends and me to attend the ‘Journey Forward with Hudson’ event at Journey Forward in Canton today. Journey Forward is a non-profit organization who is dedicated to bettering the lives of persons who […]

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Baker Building

Epilepsy Center
330 Brookline Avenue
504 Baker Building
Boston, MA  02215

http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/

Every 4-6 months I travel to the Epilepsy Center, located in the Baker Building at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to see my long time neurologist Dr. Donald L. Schomer. I was here yesterday and decided it was time to do a wheelchair accessibility review of the Baker […]

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i BOT by Independence Technology

Route 22 West
P.O. Box 151
Somerville NJ 08876-0151
Phone: 866-501-2968 ext 5701

www.ibotnow.com
 

Today my friends and I traveled to Massasoit Community College to see a demonstration of the iBOT Power Chair.
The iBOT is an AMAZING Wheelchair! 
The iBOT Demonstration was shown by Kate Adams, a representative and product consultant for the Independence Technology.
The Ibot Power Chair has 4 functions on it. Below […]

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The Helping Hands Club and i BOT Demonstration

The Helping Hands Club
 of Massasoit Community College
 will Present a Demonstration of the
iBOT Mobility System
 Wednesday September 17, 2008
12 noon to 1pm
at the Quadrangle in front of the Student Center.
The iBOT Demonstration will be held inside the Student Center if the weather is inclement.
The iBOT is a 4 wheel drive, all terrain wheelchair that climbs curbs, steps […]

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De-Bug All Terrain Wheelchair by Deming Designs, Inc

 
Deming Designs, Inc.
1090 Cobblestone Dr.
Pensacola, FL 32514
Phone: 850-478-5765

http://www.beachwheelchair.com/index.html

I loved going to the beach before I became wheelchair bound and was so sad when I thought that I would never again be able to go on the sand to feel the ocean water for it is impossible to wheel a wheelchair on the sand. Yet a […]

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Jordan Hospital - Emergency Department

  For wheelchair accessibility
  For service
275 Sandwich Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
Phone: 508-746-2000

http://www.jordanhospital.org/

My roommate and good friend Josh goes home to visit his family every weekend. Last night his sister called my friends and I to let us know that she and her mom took Josh to Jordan Hospital Emergency Department  to be checked out for a […]

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Quantum 600 Tilt and Space Power Wheelchair

Pride Mobility Products Corp.
Phone: 1-800-800-8586

http://www.quantumrehab.com/

I decided to write a review my Quantum 600 Tilt and Space Power Wheelchair to let everyone know how great I think this chair is.  My Quantum 600 power wheelchair allows me to be much more independent.  When I don’t use my power chair I have to ask a friend to […]

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