New Assistive Devices in the Market

October 12, 2011

As the market for assistive devices matures there are brand new devices on the market almost every year that aim to cater to a new niche of the market for patients who suffer from handicaps that leave them with limited mobility or who have other issues such as age or injury related mobility disorders or even bariatric reasons for limited mobility.

One of these products that have been popular of late is a new take on the normal walker that we have known and used for decades. This new kind of walker is called a rollator or a rollator walker and it can most easily be described as walker with wheels on the bottom of it. The wheels mean that you can slide it along unlike a regular walker with rubber feet that you have to lift up and put down after every step. This means that for people who frequently get tired and suffer from cramps in their arms, shoulder, neck and suffer from back pain due to prolonged use of a walker these new rollator walkers are the answer.

One of the companies that has been making handicap lifting devices for a long time is the most popular manufacturers of rollator walkers as well. That company is drive medical rollators and they have a range of popular rollators and bariatric rollator walkers.

Other companies that make popular products in the same category are the well-known Medline which makes the popular Medline rollator transport wheelchair which is a special wheelchair that can also carry your rollator walker for you so that you essentially have the best of both worlds. A normal wheelchair so that you can take the weight off your feet when you are tired and the ease of use of a rollator walker when you want one.

These new products aim to give more customized solutions and make the lives better of people who need to use assistive devices and handicap lifting devices.

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