Showing posts with label rehabilitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rehabilitation. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tricycle for disabled children

The need of a tricycle for disabled children that are able to cycle is permanent. Several commercially available models are not comfortable, awkward, and non-ergonomic. The devise is to be safe, easy to climb and to get off, ergonomic, and designed for children.

Shabtai Hirshberg from School of Practical Engineering at Hadassah College Jerusalem designed this trike to encourage physical activity among kids suffering from neurological or muscular disorders. It is named A2B. When a child mounts the trike, stepping on the pedal locks the wheels, enabling the child to literally walk right into a seated position. The chest support keeps the child stabilized, and the whole trike can be customized to each child's needs.The gear based rear wheel makes it easy for the child to pedal since less force is required to drive the system. The entire steering shaft is cable driven so very small movements translate into larger ones. שבתאי הירשברג 

שבתאי הירשברג

Now, I hope that Israel, known for its fast commercial implementation and economic stability (I mean the last weeks) will provide entrepreneurs for mass production  of the A2B.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Al-Hussein Society in Amman

In the frame of the MERC project we collaborate with the Al-Hussein Society for the Habilitation/Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged. Princess Majda Ra’ad is the Chairperson of the Society and actively takes part in supervision of its manajement. The society was founded in 1972 and now its permanent stuff is about 90 people.
Here are my pictures from there:
Leg-forms Corridor
By the way, lated I saw on the Net, that those wheelchairs were donated by Japanese government in 1999.