Buying age-appropriate mobility equipment for disabled youngsters could be a daunting task for mothers and fathers. Naturally, you need the best supportive equipment for your children.
There were major changes to children’s disability products in recent years. During the past, children were supplied with full sized wheelchairs that merely had cushions added into the seat to make them higher and narrower. Obviously this was not acceptable and so smaller-version wheelchairs where designed specifically for youngsters.
The problem was that some parent and carers found it unsatisfactory to put their younger kids into a wheelchair when they felt they still needed to be in a pushchair due to their age if not their disability.
In Sweden things were totally different. Young children with disabilities were given state of the art highly modified pushchairs that were suitable to age and disability. Swedish manufacturer Alvema came out with the Max which was considered, at the time, to be the Rolls Royce of pushchairs. Alvema have continued in this vein since then and have subsequently released many other models onto the marketplace. All of which are of the same high quality as the orignal buggy.
Rainbow Mobility have been distributing supportive pushchairs for youngsters with disabilities for more than 20 years and have seen the numerous changes take place over that period of time. Rainbow respect a parent’s concern for their child and as a result carry out free assessments as standard before any sale so that parents and carers can be absolutely certain that their child is getting the proper pushchair for their needs.
The Alvema Ito and the Alvema Pixi pushchairs Rainbow supply are two of the best on the market today. Alvema have been able to successfully bridge the gap between obvious wheelchair and disability-appropriate pushchair and, at all times, keeping the user’s dignity and comfort and that of their mother and father and carers, at the centre of design.
Brian Young is the M. D. of Rainbow Mobility Limited, a specialist mobility product supplier. Brian has been involved in the distribution of disabled children’s pushchairs and many other mobility products in a career that spans over thirty years in this sector. Rainbow Mobility are based on the Wirral peninsular in North West England. They supply mobility equipment all over the United Kingdom. The company concentrates on top specification products for both children and adults with varying levels of disability.