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How to Choose the Best Wheelchair

How to Choose the Best Wheelchair
By Hulet Smith, OT

Wheelchairs are specially designed medical chairs outfitted with wheels, designed to aid individuals with limited mobility. Read on for Rehabmart's buying guide on how to select the best wheelchair model to meet you or your loved one's needs! 


Top 5 Wheelchair Ramps for Home

Top 5 Wheelchair Ramps for Home
By Mike Price, OT

If you are aging in place or dealing with a disability that makes it difficult or impossible to safely walk up and down stairs, a wheelchair ramp can help you maintain independence and allow you to leave and return home safely. Our product experts give their top five selections in this article.


Best Wheelchairs for the Beach

Best Wheelchairs for the Beach
By Nancy Sailer, LPTA, BSEd

The common design among beach wheelchairs is their large, broad wheels which allow better access and mobility over the sand. There are several types of beach wheelchairs and each of them have different features, dimensions, and accessories. Our product experts give their top five selections in this article.


What Is The Difference Between A Wheelchair And Transport Chair?

What Is The Difference Between A Wheelchair And Transport Chair?
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

When choosing a transport chair or standard wheelchair, users must consider the device’s features. For those interested in shorter trips periodically, a transport chair might be best. However, a standard wheelchair offers greater comfort and more features for individuals who need more regular mobility assistance. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


Top Rated Manual Wheelchairs

Top Rated Manual Wheelchairs
By Jeanine Clancy, MEd, BSN, RN

Manual wheelchairs are most often used for long-term, indoor use. Users generally spend more time in these chairs, and it’s especially important to consider investing in a model that you know will keep you safe and support your mobility needs. Our product experts give their top seven selections in this article.


Best Lightweight Folding Wheelchairs for Traveling

Best Lightweight Folding Wheelchairs for Traveling
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

Lightweight wheelchairs open up the world for users! This list features our lightest and most portable wheelchairs, giving you more freedom - whether it is to the grocery store, visiting family, on vacation, just around the house, or anywhere in between. Our product expert gives you our top 8 favorites and helps you determine what is the best lightweight wheelchair for your needs.


How to Choose the Best Wheelchair Ramp: Your ULTIMATE Guide

How to Choose the Best Wheelchair Ramp: Your ULTIMATE Guide
By Susan Griffitts, MSN, RN, FCN

Wheelchair ramps are available in various styles and configurations, catering to different purposes and users of mobility devices. They ensure safe access over uneven surfaces, steps, and inclines for individuals using wheelchairs, scooters, and other assistive devices. Factors like permanence, portability, construction materials, and design suitability for specific climates are essential considerations. Additionally, we explored specific ramp types, including pool ramps and vehicle ramps, offering insights to help find the ideal ramp that meets specific requirements.


Useful Items for Lower Limb Amputees

Useful Items for Lower Limb Amputees
By Susan Griffitts, MSN, RN, FCN

While losing a limb will alter your life in a variety of ways, choosing the right daily living aids can make your recovery journey much easier and more comfortable. Many activities of daily living may seem impossible following amputation. However, using the appropriate assistive devices will help you optimize your health, keep you connected, and support you in living your life to the fullest. Read on to learn more about how to help yourself or a loved one adapt to lower limb loss and still live life to the fullest!


Best Power Assist Wheelchair Devices

Best Power Assist Wheelchair Devices
By Susan Griffitts, MSN, RN, FCN

Power assist devices are very dynamic devices that add life and color to the lives of users by providing automatic wheelchair movement for manual wheelchairs. They also provide easier movement, enabling the user to travel farther distances with considerably less effort! Our product experts give their top three selections in this article.


Top 6 Best Threshold Ramps

Top 6 Best Threshold Ramps
By Mike Price, OT

Threshold ramps deliver a smooth transition through doorways and over small inclines, steps, and uneven flooring for people of all ages living with either temporary or permanent mobility challenges. Whether you use a walker, wheelchair, rollator, or mobility scooter threshold ramps help to prevent slips and falls, providing safer access for both riding and walking. Our product experts give their top selections in this article.


Grit Freedom Chair Review: Keep Up With Any Adventure

Grit Freedom Chair Review: Keep Up With Any Adventure
By Susan Griffitts, MSN, RN, FCN

Wheelchairs can be very helpful tools for helping people living with mobility impairments get out and about. But some all-terrain wheelchairs are not truly designed for the outdoors and typical push-rim propulsion can lead to shoulder pain and fatigue. GRIT spent years prototyping the design of the GRIT Freedom Chair, ensuring it was best suited to help those who matter most: the riders. The result is a tough, all-terrain wheelchair that is ready to take you just about anywhere, enhancing comfort, ease of propulsion, independence, and connection.


Zoomer Chair vs Zinger Chair

Zoomer Chair vs Zinger Chair
By Susan Griffitts, MSN, RN, FCN

The Zinger and Zoomer Chairs offer unique capabilities to fit your individual needs. Wheelchairs enhance personal mobility, quality of life, and community involvement and are a vital component for those with mobility dysfunction and disability. Providing adaptability, portability, stability and comfortability, both the Zoomer and Zinger Chairs will get where you need to go and give you freedom to explore.


3 Best All Terrain Wheelchairs

3 Best All Terrain Wheelchairs
By Mike Price

Living life in a wheelchair can inhibit your ability to journey - especially if you want to navigate over tough terrains like beaches, outdoor trails, and gravel paths. But with these all-terrain wheelchairs, you can live a life without compromise that’s bursting full of adventure! Our top picks are all about living life to its fullest, no matter what terrain or climate you’re traveling to. Keep reading to learn more about what makes these choices our favorites and how they can enrich your life for the better! 


Best 10 Foot Wheelchair Ramp: EZ-Access Gateway 3G Ramp

Best 10 Foot Wheelchair Ramp: EZ-Access Gateway 3G Ramp
By Jeanine Clancy, MEd, BSN, RN

The EZ-Access Gateway 3G Ramp offers a level of versatility that is unmatched by its competitors. The Gateway 3G can accommodate a wide range of access applications, perfect for temporary, semi-permanent, and even permanent use. Easy to assemble and attach, this portable wheelchair ramp delivers unrivaled strength and stability in all outdoor conditions, optimizing safety and ease of use for people using a wheelchair, power scooter, walker, cane, or crutches.


Deming Designs | Beach Wheelchairs and Aquatic Mobility Aids

Deming Designs | Beach Wheelchairs and Aquatic Mobility Aids
By Jeanine Clancy, MEd, BSN, RN

Spending time by the water is restorative from a mental a physical perspective. The team at Deming Designs team has helped to ensure that everyone can enjoy a long trip down the beach and a splash in the ocean. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


EZRide+ Power Assist for Manual Wheelchairs

EZRide+ Power Assist for Manual Wheelchairs
By Donald Jacobsen, MSN, MBA, RN-BC (NI)

The EZRide+ power assist for manual wheelchairs is the perfect solution for those who want to regain independence and mobility. With its lightweight and portable design, the EZRide+ is ideal for those on the go. It's also customizable, so you can make it work just for you. Whether you're looking to get back to your favorite activities or simply want to move around more freely, the EZRide+ is the perfect solution.


Driving With A Disability: Hand Controls For Cars 101

Driving With A Disability: Hand Controls For Cars 101
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

There are a range of hand controls to help individuals with disabilities modify their vehicles for easier and safer use. Each person will benefit from different hand controls based on their specific impairment. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


Vipamat Hippocampe All-Terrain Wheelchair: An Honest Review

Vipamat Hippocampe All-Terrain Wheelchair: An Honest Review
By Donald Jacobsen, MSN, MBA, RN-BC (NI)

Wheelchair users deserve to have the opportunity to spend time adventuring in the outdoors like anyone else. Vipamat Hippocampe All-Terrain Wheelchair chair has many fun and exciting accessories (like balloon tires for the beach or skis for the slopes) and has passed trustworthy safety tests so you and your family can rest easy. 


Best Karman Wheelchairs

Best Karman Wheelchairs
By Jeanine Clancy, MEd, BSN, RN

Karman has been a reliable company producing quality medical equipment since 1994. Karman wheelchairs reflect the company’s deep appreciation for wheelchair users’ needs. Karman is also committed to keeping up with the rising demand for high-quality medical products. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


How Wide Are Wheelchairs? [ANSWERED]

How Wide Are Wheelchairs? [ANSWERED]
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

There are many factors to consider when looking to determine what wheelchair width you need. You must be sure it is wide enough to accommodate your body comfortably while also being able to travel throughout your home safely. Here is a complete guide to How Wide Are Wheelchairs?


Top 5 Best Pediatric Wheelchairs [Updated]

Top 5 Best Pediatric Wheelchairs [Updated]
By Hulet Smith, OT

A pediatric manual wheelchair can be a significant tool in expanding a child’s world and enhancing development, it’s important to find the model that will provide the most opportunities for freedom of exploration. Our product experts give their top five selections in this article.


Top 9 Power Wheelchairs [Updated]

Top 9 Power Wheelchairs [Updated]
By Amanda Marten, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Having the right power wheelchair can restore your sense of independence. Power wheelchairs are especially useful for exploring the outdoors, traveling more quickly over longer distances, and turning tight corners to more easily navigate smaller indoor spaces. Our product experts give their top nine selections in this article.


Cheapest Electric Wheelchairs

Cheapest Electric Wheelchairs
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

There are a range of affordable options of Electric Wheelchairs with various features suited to the needs of an individual with mobility challenges. Some features to look for include battery life, turning radius, rear-wheel drive, and portability. Our product experts give their top selections in this article.


Top 7 Transport Wheelchairs

Top 7 Transport Wheelchairs
By Jeanine Clancy, MEd, BSN, RN

Wheelchair users all have unique preferences in terms of what they consider the most important features, and luckily there are products on the market that suit a wide range of patient preferences. Our product experts give their top recommendations for every preference in this article.


Top 7 Lightweight Electric Wheelchairs for Travel

Top 7 Lightweight Electric Wheelchairs for Travel
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

Don't let mobility stop you from doing what you love! If you need a portable power wheelchair, here are our 7 favorites. Whether it's a trip to the store or exploring a new city - we have what you need. Our product expert explains everything you must consider before making a selection, along with highlighting the best features of each chair.


How to Find Your Wheelchair Size [ANSWERED]

How to Find Your Wheelchair Size [ANSWERED]
By Brittany Ferri, OTR/L

Ordering a wheelchair requires a bit of forethought on your part. But once you have these simple measurements in hand, you can get a seating device that enables you to interact more easily and comfortably with your environment. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


Top 5 Shower Wheelchairs

Top 5 Shower Wheelchairs
By Mike Price, OT

A shower wheelchair assists people of all ages living with mobility impairments to safely and comfortably take a shower, enhancing independence. Helping to overcome the challenges of limited mobility, shower wheelchairs come in a range of styles to transport users to and from the shower, allowing users to remain in the chair during the shower. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.


How does a tilt in space wheelchair differ from a reclining back wheelchair?

How does a tilt in space wheelchair differ from a reclining back wheelchair?
By Mike Price, OT

A reclining wheelchair takes pressure off in different ways than a tilt-in-space wheelchair does, but the goal of each is the same - to provide the most comfort and pressure relief for the user. Pressure relief, the ability to accommodate individual patient needs, and ease of use for patients and caregivers all contribute to the quality of daily life for anyone who spends most of the day in a wheelchair. Our product experts give their top recommendations in this article.

 


Top 5 Best Portable Wheelchair Ramps

Top 5 Best Portable Wheelchair Ramps
By Mike Price, OT

Portable wheelchair ramps deliver safe, supportive accessibility for people of all ages and abilities. Great for seniors aging in place at home or in assisted living communities, these access ramps provide a safe way to traverse over steps, curbs, and other inclines. Our product experts give their top five selections in this article.


Wheelchair Ramps for Homes: What to Know Before You Buy!

Wheelchair Ramps for Homes: What to Know Before You Buy!
By Mike Price

Are you looking to purchase a modular wheelchair ramp? If so, this is the information you must know before you buy!


The Ultimate Wheelchair Travel Guide

The Ultimate Wheelchair Travel Guide
By Hulet Smith

“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible.” - Stella Young Traveling with a wheelchair may initially seem fraught with difficulty, as the world is not always an easy place to maneuver when you’re living with disabilities - whether you have a wheelchair or not. But as another paraphrased saying goes, “If...

6 Great Ways to Work Out from a Wheelchair

6 Great Ways to Work Out from a Wheelchair
By Sara McEvoy, PT, DPT

Exercise is an important part of daily life in order to maintain a healthy body and mind, but for people in wheelchairs, finding accessible solutions to daily exercise can be a challenge. We outline a range of equipment-free wheelchair exercise modifications, as well as 6 assistive tools to really ramp up your workout game. Read on to learn more!


Get a Better Fit From Your Wheelchair: 6 Best Accessories

Get a Better Fit From Your Wheelchair: 6 Best Accessories
By Mike Price, OT

Wheelchair accessories can make or break a wheelchair, providing the perfect adaptation to turn any chair into a uniquely customized mobility system. Not only changing the fit, but also the function of your wheelchair, we introduce 6 of the best accessories. Read on to find out what we picked and why!


Wheelchairs Move Better With SmartDrive Power Assist

Wheelchairs Move Better With SmartDrive Power Assist
By Mike Price, OT

The SmartDrive is the middle ground between the portability of a manual wheelchair and the added power assistance of a power wheelchair. This innovative tool is easy to install, simple to operate, and ideal for nearly any wheelchair user. Read on to learn more and get one for yourself!


Strongback Wheelchairs: More Lumbar Support, Less Pain

Strongback Wheelchairs: More Lumbar Support, Less Pain
By Hulet Smith, OT

Tired of back pain from unsupportive wheelchairs? Strongback revolutionized the camp chair, and they've used that same design to re-invent the wheelchair, promoting good posture that alleviates slouching, pain, and pressure for a lightweight, foldable wheelchair that still has you feeling great all day long. Read on to learn more about this innovative design and how it can help you!


Wheelchair Ramps and ADA Guidelines: Everything You Need to Know

Wheelchair Ramps and ADA Guidelines: Everything You Need to Know
By Phillip McMullen II, MD, PhD

ADA Specifications are the best way to maintain a safe and accessible wheelchair ramp. But all those guidelines can be confusing. We dove in and brought you the most important things you need to know about ADA guidelines and the specs you should follow. Read more to find out what they are!


Is Your Threshold Ramp Really ADA-Compliant? How to Know For Sure

Is Your Threshold Ramp Really ADA-Compliant? How to Know For Sure
By Mike Price, OT

Threshold ramps are an important safety tool for people with limited mobility, but is your threshold ramp really ADA compliant? Because of the unique design of threshold ramps, they're not as tightly regulated as more permanent models, so many ramps labeled ADA-compliant may not actually be. Read on to learn more about how to know for sure.


13 Simple Ways to Make Your Home Universally Visitable

13 Simple Ways to Make Your Home Universally Visitable
By Johanna Galyen, RN

Want to make your home wheelchair accessible but don't know where to start? We're here to offer our 13 best tips to easily modify your home without having to go through an expensive remodel. Check them out now!


The First Truly ADA-Compliant Threshold Ramps: SafePath Products

The First Truly ADA-Compliant Threshold Ramps: SafePath Products
By Mike Price, OT

SafePath manufactures some of the best threshold ramps on the market, utilizing 100% recycled materials to make durable, weather-proof ramps that are guaranteed to be ADA-compliant. Learn more about how they're revolutionizing the industry, and check out some of these amazing ramps!


Types of Wheelchairs & 7 Tips to Help You Choose the Best

Types of Wheelchairs & 7 Tips to Help You Choose the Best
By Mike Price, OT

Overwhelmed with the wide variety of wheelchairs available on the market? We'll help you narrow it down by laying out the different types of wheelchairs, and then walking you through our top 7 best tips to help you choose the right one for your specific needs.


6 Amazing Reasons to Choose an Aluminum Wheelchair Ramp

6 Amazing Reasons to Choose an Aluminum Wheelchair Ramp
By Mike Price, OT

Looking for a better way to choose a wheelchair ramp for your home? Look no further! Rehabmart is here to walk you through the most important considerations, and help you to find the right solution for your needs. Choosing between a wooden or aluminum modular ramp can seem challenging, but it doesn't have to be. With our know-how and superior catalog of products, we're the best resource for high-quality information and products.


Bathing and Dressing Become Simple with Pants-Up Easy

Bathing and Dressing Become Simple with Pants-Up Easy
By Megan Smith, PT

Pants Up Easy is a revolution for the mobility-challenged community, serving as both a dressing and toileting aid that helps users who aren't so steady on their feet pull their pants up and down without assistance.


Colours in Motion: Redefining Disability with Custom Wheelchairs

Colours in Motion: Redefining Disability with Custom Wheelchairs
By Hulet Smith, OT

John Box: A Rebel With A Cause At first glance, the name “Spazz” could appear to be a bit of a misnomer - after all, how many times have children with disabilities been called this name, typically in a way that is intentionally meant to offend? Unless, of course, you’re John Box. John takes a very different point of view on this line of thinking. In 1981, a motorcycle accide...

The Wheelchair Mover Makes Patient Transfer Smooth, Safe, & Easy

The Wheelchair Mover Makes Patient Transfer Smooth, Safe, & Easy
By Hulet Smith, OT

For any hospital, elderly care facility or rehabilitation center looking to prolong the health and service of their medical staff, the Wheelchair Mover is a wonderful and creative tool to ensure safety plays a key role in every patient interaction - for the patient, as well as the caregiver! 


No More Drained Wheelchair Batteries: Liberator Solar-Powered Wheelchair

No More Drained Wheelchair Batteries: Liberator Solar-Powered Wheelchair
By Megan Smith, PT

The Liberator Solar Powered Wheelchair is the first power wheelchair on the market today that runs primarily on solar energy, thanks to its innovative Solar Companion—a unique sun converting solar panel designed exclusively for the Liberator chair!


Roll-A-Ramp: Easily Transportable, Exceptionally Strong

Roll-A-Ramp: Easily Transportable, Exceptionally Strong
By Hulet Smith, OT

American-made and created with military-grade metals, Roll-A-Ramp equipment rolls up like a sleeping bag while boasting an immense weight-to-capacity ratio: each eight-foot ramp weighs around 41 pounds, but will support up to 1,000 pounds!


Harmar Mobility: Reclaim Your Independence in the Home You Love

Harmar Mobility: Reclaim Your Independence in the Home You Love
By Hulet Smith, OT

Together with RehabMart, Harmar offers a variety of product options for a number of common mobility needs. From vehicle lifts compatible with nearly any type of car model to vertical and incline wheelchair platform lifts, Harmar has the solution you need.