Tag: mobility

CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Precision Comfort, a newer division of Merits Health, started shipping its first three cushions late last year and launched its first back, the PC ProForm, in June.“It's the first back for our company,” said Dave Leverette, designer and general manager. “It's just for our power wheelchairs right now, but we'll have a full line of backs down the road, as we continue product development.”Precision Comfort offers three cushions: PC Lite (general use), PC Gel...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Eppic Medical has acquired Mobul: the mobility store in Long Beach, Calif. As part of the acquisition, which is Eppic Medical's third, Mobul will also provide custom complex rehab products to customers requiring more than just standard medical equipment. Eppic Medical, an HME retailer based here serving customers in Palm Desert and San Diego, is affiliated with Access Medical, a provider of complex rehab products with offices in Carlsbad, Anaheim, Palm Desert, Burlingame, Honolulu...

NASHVILLE - LUCI, a new mobility-focused technology company, has launched its premier product, LUCI. This hardware and software platform uses sensor-fusion technologies to allow a power wheelchair to “see” its environment. LUCI mounts onto a power wheelchair between the power base and the seat to help users avoid collisions and dangerous drop-offs while maintaining personalized driving control. Through cloud-based capabilities, LUCI can also monitor and alert users and caregivers of low...

CHICAGO - Messe Dusseldorf has pushed REHACARE2020 to Oct. 6-9, 2021, in Dusseldorf, Germany. “We are constantly adapting our pre-existing high-level safety and hygiene standards,” said Werner Dornscheidt, president and CEO of Messe Dusseldorf. “Despite the announcement to make trade fairs and specialist congresses possible again by May 31, 2020, we have decided to postpone REHACARE until 2021 due to its specific demographic.” The event offers exhibitors and private visitors...

MINNEAPOLIS - Reliable Medical Supply, a provider of complex rehab technology, clinical respiratory products, and DME and supplies, has announced a partnership with A&A Medical Supply. As part of the partnership, A&A's management team, including Anton Yeranossian, founder and CEO, will become investors in RMS and will continue to help grow the combined company. “When we decided to launch an aggressive growth plan in late 2019, we targeted companies who share the same patient-centric attitude...

ELYRIA, Ohio - Invacare provided a business update on March 23, saying demand for respiratory products and beds has increased dramatically but demand for mobility and seating products has slowed.“While demand of our respiratory products and beds continues to spike, we have experienced a reduction in the momentum of our mobility and seating product line over the past few weeks,” said Matt Monaghan, chairman, president and CEO. “This has been caused by a shift in priorities of our...

BUCKLEY, Wash. - Complete Access Co. has added 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Ohio to better serve the Eastern seaboard, the Great Lakes region and Canada. The company also has manufacturing plants strategically located in the Northwest, where it is based, and the Southeastern U.S. Its products include ADA stairs and decking, ADA ramps and easy kits, and residential ramps. They also include OSHA stairs and decking. Complete Access Co. is a division of Integrated Stair Systems.

As the mobility market becomes more technologically advanced and product demand continues to grow with the aging baby boomer generation, the outlook for wheelchair and scooter sales is that it will remain a strong category, offering HME providers a range of opportunities.Brad Peterson, vice president of professional affairs and clinical education for Invacare, says the Elyria, Ohio-based manufacturer is “heavily focused on GP3 power mobility” and that he sees “continued robust demand...

LEBANON, Tenn. - Permobil and the Permobil Foundation will sponsor and host occupational therapy students and researchers from Belmont University and Vanderbilt University on April 12 to fit and train children to use custom-fit toy cars. The cars are meant to improve the day-to-day lifestyle of children with mobility impairments as part of the Go Baby Go program. Students and researchers from the universities and Permobil employees will modify the battery powered ride-on cars to be custom fit for...

MADISON, Wis. - Rowheels, a developer of manual mobility technology, has been chosen to appear on “Project Pitch It,” a local TV show in which entrepreneurs pitch their startup companies “Shark Tank”-style and compete for weekly awards valued at a total of $30,000, according to a press release. Rowheels has developed a patented technology that allows wheelchair users to pull rather than push when they want to move forward, preventing repetitive stress injuries of the shoulder....