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Wheelchair Lifts Explained: Types, Costs, and Top-Rated Options

Wheelchair Lifts Explained: Types, Costs, and Top-Rated Options
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

This comprehensive wheelchair lift buying guide helps users and caregivers choose the best lift for vehicles or homes based on clinical needs, mobility level, and lifestyle. It explains key features, types of lifts, real-world use cases, and includes top product recommendations, weight capacities, and answers common questions.


Choosing Floor Scales for Hospitals, Clinics, and Home Healthcare

Choosing Floor Scales for Hospitals, Clinics, and Home Healthcare
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This comprehensive floor scale buying guide explores the top 12 medical-grade scales for diverse patient needs, including bariatric, wheelchair-accessible, portable, and voice-assisted models. It breaks down the types of scales, clinical use cases, and essential features to consider, like weight capacity, mobility accommodations, and infection control. The guide also includes a detailed FAQ section and offers practical, experience-based advice to help clinicians and caregivers select the right scale for safe and accurate weight monitoring.


Home Steam Shower Generators: Choosing the Best Model for Your Space

Home Steam Shower Generators: Choosing the Best Model for Your Space
By Megan Smith, PT

This guide explains how to choose the best steam shower generator by breaking down the different types, key features, and sizing tips. It covers the health benefits of steam therapy, like muscle relief, improved circulation, and respiratory support, while also highlighting important safety features and optional upgrades. A helpful FAQ section answers common questions so readers can make a confident, well-informed decision.


Float Pods: Our Guide to Choosing the Right Sensory Deprivation Tank

Float Pods: Our Guide to Choosing the Right Sensory Deprivation Tank
By Megan Smith, PT

This comprehensive buying guide explores the clinical benefits and practical considerations of float pods, also known as sensory deprivation tanks. It breaks down how float therapy can support pain relief, recovery, stress reduction, and sleep, while providing actionable advice on features to look for and how to select between commercial and home-use models. The guide includes specific product recommendations to help readers make informed, therapeutic purchases.


Hydrotherapy Tubs Explained: Which One Is Right for Your Recovery Needs?

Hydrotherapy Tubs Explained: Which One Is Right for Your Recovery Needs?
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This comprehensive buying guide explores the therapeutic benefits and practical features of hydrotherapy tubs for clinical, athletic, and home use. It outlines key use cases such as arthritis management, post-surgical recovery, and sports performance, while breaking down essential features like jet customization, temperature control, and accessibility. The article also highlights different types of hydrotherapy tubs, from extremity whirlpools to full-body and mobile units, and includes specific product recommendations.


Water Wheelchair Buying Guide: Features, Uses, and How to Choose

Water Wheelchair Buying Guide: Features, Uses, and How to Choose
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

This guide to water wheelchairs explains who can benefit from them, what features to look for, and how to choose the right model. It covers real-life clinical scenarios like spinal cord injuries and arthritis, offers therapist-recommended buying tips, and includes top product picks from RehabMart to help users and caregivers find safe, durable options for aquatic therapy and recreation.


How to Choose Pool Steps and Ladders for Safety, Accessibility, and Comfort

How to Choose Pool Steps and Ladders for Safety, Accessibility, and Comfort
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This buying guide covers the best pool steps and ladders to improve safety and accessibility in pools. It explains who needs them, such as older adults, people recovering from surgery, or children, and what features to look for, including non-slip surfaces, handrails, and ADA compliance.


Ramps for Swimming Pools: How to Choose the Right Model

Ramps for Swimming Pools: How to Choose the Right Model
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This comprehensive guide explores how ramps for swimming pools improve accessibility for seniors, disabled individuals, and rehab patients. This article explains when and why pool ramps are necessary, what features to look for (like ADA compliance, non-slip surfaces, and durability), and offers top product recommendations. Whether you're outfitting a therapy pool or creating an inclusive aquatic space, this guide ensures you choose the safest, most supportive ramp for your needs.


Do Cooling Vests Really Work? 4 Types & How to Choose

Do Cooling Vests Really Work? 4 Types & How to Choose
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This comprehensive buying guide breaks down the four main types of cooling vests—evaporative, ice-chilled, phase change, and circulatory—explaining how each works and who they’re best for. Whether you're managing a medical condition like multiple sclerosis or need heat relief for work or sports, this guide helps you choose the right cooling vest based on cooling duration, comfort, and portability. Expert recommendations and Rehabmart product links are included to support informed decision-making.


How to Choose the Best Folding Mobility Scooter

How to Choose the Best Folding Mobility Scooter
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

Finding the right folding mobility scooter is essential for maintaining independence and mobility. This expert-reviewed guide compares 12 top-rated models, detailing key features such as portability, weight capacity, battery range, and terrain adaptability. Whether you need an ultra-lightweight travel scooter, a rugged all-terrain model, or an airline-approved option, this article helps you make an informed decision based on your specific mobility needs.


How to Choose the Best Pool Exercise Equipment for Seniors

How to Choose the Best Pool Exercise Equipment for Seniors
By Megan Smith, PT

This guide explores the benefits of pool exercise equipment for seniors, highlighting its role in mobility support, arthritis relief, post-surgery rehabilitation, strength training, and cardiovascular health. It provides expert recommendations on the best aquatic therapy products, including flotation belts, resistance weights, underwater walkers, and pool bikes, ensuring a safe and effective water workout experience. With an in-depth FAQ section answering common questions about aquatic exercise, this article serves as a comprehensive resource for choosing the right pool exercise equipment.


How to Choose the Best Bed Rail for Safety and Support

How to Choose the Best Bed Rail for Safety and Support
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

Bed rails are essential safety devices designed to prevent falls, assist with mobility, and provide support for individuals with limited movement, including seniors, post-surgery patients, and those with disabilities. This comprehensive guide explores the different types of bed rails—full-length, half-length, adjustable, swing-down, and dual-side—highlighting key features such as compatibility, weight capacity, safety mechanisms, and installation ease.


How to Choose the Best Tennis Elbow Brace

How to Choose the Best Tennis Elbow Brace
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This comprehensive guide explains the different types of braces, counterforce straps, compression sleeves, and hybrid braces, helping users choose the best option based on pain severity, activity level, and daily needs. A detailed FAQ section addresses common concerns, such as how to wear a brace, when to seek medical attention and the best exercises for recovery. Whether you're an athlete, office worker, or manual laborer, this guide provides evidence-based solutions to manage tennis elbow pain effectively.


A Flexible Seating Classroom Guide by a Pediatric Occupational Therapist

A Flexible Seating Classroom Guide by a Pediatric Occupational Therapist
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

This comprehensive guide explores the benefits of flexible seating classroom solutions, helping educators and therapists select the best options for student engagement, posture, and sensory regulation. This article breaks down different seating types including active seating, sensory-friendly seating, rocking chairs, and collaborative seating, and recommends the best products for each category. FAQs address common concerns, ensuring a well-informed decision when integrating flexible seating into learning environments.


How to Choose the Right Safety Bed: A Comprehensive Buying Guide

How to Choose the Right Safety Bed: A Comprehensive Buying Guide
By Megan Smith, PT

 

Choosing the right safety bed is essential for individuals at risk of falls, those with special needs, or individuals requiring enhanced mobility support. This guide explores different types of safety beds—including manual, semi-electric, and fully electric models—outlining their features, pros, and cons. By understanding key considerations such as fall prevention, caregiver assistance, and patient independence, you can select the best safety bed for your needs. 

 

 


Best Portable Red Light Therapy Devices: Choosing the Right One for Your Needs

Best Portable Red Light Therapy Devices: Choosing the Right One for Your Needs
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

 

This buying guide covers the best portable red light therapy devices for pain relief, muscle recovery, and skin rejuvenation. It explains key factors like wavelength selection, treatment areas, and FDA clearance. The guide highlights top products, including red light therapy belts, infrared wands, and knee massagers, with links to FDA-cleared options from Rehabmart. Clinical studies are referenced to support their effectiveness in reducing pain, inflammation, and improving circulation.

 


How to Choose Between the Types of LED Light Therapy Colors

How to Choose Between the Types of LED Light Therapy Colors
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

This article explains how to choose the right LED light therapy color for skin care, pain relief, and wellness. It covers the benefits of red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and infrared light therapy, highlighting their effects on collagen production, acne treatment, circulation, and healing. 

 


How to Choose the Right Esthetician Chair: A Comprehensive Guide for Spa and Salon Professionals

How to Choose the Right Esthetician Chair: A Comprehensive Guide for Spa and Salon Professionals
By Megan Smith, PT

Choosing the right esthetician chair, facial bed, or treatment table is essential for optimizing client comfort and practitioner efficiency in spas and salons. This guide explores hydraulic, electric, and portable treatment chairs, highlighting their benefits and ideal use cases. It also reviews top-rated med spa chairs and massage tables, offering expert recommendations to help you invest in ergonomic, durable, and high-quality equipment tailored to your specific treatment needs.


How to Choose the Right Behavioral Health Furniture for Your Facility

How to Choose the Right Behavioral Health Furniture for Your Facility
By Mike Price, OT, CIO/CMO

Choosing the right behavioral health furniture ensures safety, durability, and compliance in clinics and institutions. This guide covers key considerations, furniture types, pros and cons, and expert product recommendations to create a secure, therapeutic environment.

 


Types of Electric Bikes and How to Choose the Right One

Types of Electric Bikes and How to Choose the Right One
By Hulet Smith, OTR/L, MBA, CEO

Electric bikes offer an eco-friendly, versatile, and accessible mode of transportation for commuting, recreation, and off-road adventures. This guide explores various types of e-bikes, including city, folding, senior-friendly, mountain, long-range, commuter, and cargo electric bikes, detailing their pros, cons, and ideal use cases. With expert recommendations on top-rated models, key features to consider, and essential safety tips, this article helps you choose the perfect e-bike for your lifestyle.


How to Choose the Right Lymphedema Pump

How to Choose the Right Lymphedema Pump
By Morgan Hopkins, DPT, CMTPT

Lymphedema pumps and compression devices have been safely and effectively used for nearly 70 years to treat lymphedema by promoting circulation and reducing swelling. These devices, suitable for both medical and home environments, help alleviate pain, improve mobility, and lower the risk of circulatory problems.


How to Choose the Best Alarm for Deaf People

How to Choose the Best Alarm for Deaf People
By Heather Collins, MSN, RN, CNOR

Don’t let limited hearing hold you back. Empower yourself or your loved one with the ultimate safety and security solution. There are several options for deaf alarms, including visual alarms with flashing lights, vibrotactile alarms that shake, and auditory alarms with higher volume and lower frequency sounds. To find the best alarm for you, check out our selection of alarms for the hearing impaired, which offers a variety of options to fit different preferences and needs.