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Thanks to our loyal customers’ return business over the years, combined with recent growth in our customer base, Sportaid buying power has continued to evolve into more Customer Saving Power! It is no secret that our 120% Lowest Price Guarantee is the most respected in the industry. Sportaid.com is committed to making sure you always receive the best price and value on every purchase you make. The Sportaid Lowest Price Guarantee is a testament to that commitment.
Shopping online has been and continues to be the best place to shop for the best selection, best price, and best value. Sportaid.com is dedicated to ensuring your shopping experience is both enjoyable and rewarding. When asked why they prefer to shop online at Sportaid.com, here are some of the many benefits of shopping online according to Sportaid customers.
- Shop any time of the day or night.
- Save time and reduce travel costs.
- Comparison shop named brands.
- Find things easily.
Sportaid.com listens to its customers. To make customers’ shopping experience even better, Sportaid has recently implemented improvements and enhancements throughout the entire site in areas of security and privacy, menus and navigation, categories and product grouping, and much more.
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As an example, regarding categories and product grouping, Sportaid.com wheelchairs are divided into familiar categories starting with the Ultra Lightweight and Lightweight series chairs. It’s easy to browse everything from standard wheelchairs to high performance sports chairs. And that’s not all. Find a huge selection of name brand wheelchair tires and tubes, wheelchair accessories, wheelchair cushions and backs, and much more!
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Customer Online Buying Power Stronger Than Ever!
From an economic perspective, all indications are that now is the time to invest in your medical needs. Of course, from a medical health perspective, your medical needs must always come first. Here’s what some of the economic experts have to say about retail forecasts and online shoppers “spending power.”
Nielsen Unveils Retail 2015 Forecast
“While e-commerce sales felt the recessionary pain in 2008 and 2009, Q4 2009 sales were solid and interest from both manufacturers and retailers to provide online buying options has never been stronger,” said Todd Hale, senior vice president, Consumer & Shopper Insights, The Nielsen Company. “With tech-savvy Generation X and Millennials growing in importance in both numbers and spending power, the time is ripe for the next step in the evolution of online searching and buying.”
Economic Forecast: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – June 15, 2010. Contact Jennifer Frighetto, The Nielsen Company – Full News Release: http://en-us.nielsen.com/content/dam/nielsen/en_us/documents/pdf/Press%20Releases/2010/June/Nielsen%20Unveils%20Retail.pdf
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Sportaid.com — Sportaid’s history and customer service differentiates them from other medical equipment suppliers. In 1988, Sportaid was the first company of its kind. Sportaid has grown from a supplier of transport wheelchairs, wheelchair tires, and other everyday wheelchair accessories to a supplier of wheelchair cushions and backs, ROHO cushions, and high performance racing chairs.
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Sportaid Medical News and Events from Medscape Medical News, Reuters Health (RH), The New York Times — Today’s Paper, The Washington Post — Top News, and more.
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Sniffing Device Allows Disabled to Write, Run Wheelchairs
An Israeli research team has harnessed the power of the sniff to help severely disabled people play computer games, express themselves through writing and even move around in wheelchairs.
The experimental “sniff controller” takes advantage of the fact that cranial nerves in disabled people are often not damaged and are still able to send messages to the soft palate (the back of the roof of the mouth). The device registers changes in….
Source: HealthDay News, July 26, 2010. Full Article: http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=641487
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Aussie wheelchair rugby captains named
News: QUEENSLAND, AUSTRAILIA. August 25, 2010. By AAP, The Sydney Morning Herald – Queenslanders Cameron Carr and Ryan Scott have been named co-captains of the Australian wheelchair rugby team for next month’s world championships in Vancouver. The Australian Steelers head coach Brad Dubberley said the team was one of the best he had seen and confident of reversing their loss to the USA in the gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.. Full Article: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/aussie-wheelchair-rugby-captains-named-20100825-13rgk.html
News: COLLINGDALE, PENNSYLVANIA. August 29, 2010. By Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer – Those with paralyzed limbs say rowing in events like the Bayada Regatta allows them to feel free. That’s his favorite thing about rowing – the independence and freedom he feels when he leaves his chair behind. Saturday’s Bayada Regatta – the nation’s oldest and largest “adaptive” rowing competition for people with disabilities. Full Article: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100829_Finding_escape_on_the_water.html
Sportaid.com — Sportaid’s history and customer service differentiates them from other medical equipment suppliers. In 1988, Sportaid was the first company of its kind. Sportaid has grown from a supplier of transport wheelchairs, wheelchair tires, and other everyday wheelchair accessories to a supplier of wheelchair cushions and backs, ROHO cushions, and high performance racing chairs.
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What You Need to Know About Sport Wheelchairs
Sport wheelchairs are separated from everyday wheelchairs by several distinct factors. There are several design differences that must be considered to grant a chair sport status. With each design catering to different movements, the type of sport wheelchair you will require depends on your favorite activities. While one may think that only athletes stand to benefit from these types of wheelchairs, anyone who needs to use a wheelchair can benefit from the exercise and physical improvements gained by doing sports that involve using sport wheelchairs.
In general, there are four different types of wheelchairs that are designed specifically for sports purposes. Each of these sports wheelchairs use aluminum or titanium for their frames which grants a durable and light weight design. First is the court chair, which is used for basketball and tennis. The design of a court wheelchair allows for quick back and forth movements to accommodate the agility needed for the fast pace of both of these sports. The design usually differs in regard to the angle of the wheels and the placement of the axle to compensate for the users center of gravity. In the newer models of basketball wheelchairs specific attention to detail is placed on manufacturing a chair that has no parts that stick outside of the frame. This is important to the continuous play of the game as it ensures that two chairs won’t get caught on each other.
Looking for a wheelchair or wheelchair parts and accessories? Shop online at Sportaid.com. Sportaid has a large selection of wheelchair types including lightweight folding wheelchairs and lightweight rigid wheelchairs. In addition, Sportaid has wheelchair accessories, wheelchair tires, and wheelchair cushions and backs.
A second type of sport wheelchair is the racing wheelchair. The sport of wheelchair racing itself details the design rules that must be observed. A racing wheelchair must have two back wheels and a third wheel in front with all moving parts of the chair being mechanical. These chairs also have rules that detail the size of the wheels and the chair itself. Most of these chairs will only vary depending on the athlete’s physical requirements such as being able to kneel, needing to use a chair with a strap in front as a leg rest, or making use of an amputee sling.
A third type of sport wheelchairs is the hand cycle which is also constructed with three wheels and requires the user to use their hands to power the cycle. The last type of sport wheelchairs are of the all terrain variety, which allows several options for physical activity for the user as these chairs permit stability over surfaces a conventional chair could not maneuver. The all terrain sport wheelchairs are the only type that may come in both manual and powered varieties, and the main functional difference is in the wheels. The wheels on these types of chairs allow for 360 degree movements and incorporate shock absorbing materials that make traveling over rocky, snowy, or sandy landscapes more smooth.
Summer Season Wheelchair Favorites
This summer season wheelchair favorites include everything from wheelchair ramps to pool access wheelchairs for the wheelchair-bound. Whether for the beach or the backyard pool, pool access wheelchairs feature no rust, all plastic rear wheels, and stainless steel front wheels. If it’s the beach where you will be spending a lot of your time this summer, wheelchair ramps will make your ups and downs a much simpler and safer task.
Now, we all know how important it is to buckle-up for safety sake. That’s not just for drivers of vehicles on our roadways, it goes for wheelchairs users as well. If your are heading off to the pool or the beach, it might be a good idea to give that rig the once over making sure everything is in top working order. After all, you are out there to have fun not to spend your time playing mechanic to your chair. Keeping a few spare repair parts in your vehicle might be a good idea too in case they are needed. You never know when you might need wheelchair tires or tubes.
So grab the sun lotion, your favorite pool toys, and lets hit the beach!
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Dancing Wheelchairs – Advanced Assistive Technology
Customized wheelchairs are now being regularly designed to accommodate nearly every special need. Individualizing wheelchairs for performance is often required for athletes or very active users. Customization even includes special wheelchairs for dancing with the ideal center of gravity designed to help the wheelchair user to perform spins and complicated maneuvers with ease.
Advances in assistive technology, such as the recent progress in wheelchair design make it easier for disabled persons to integrate into society. But even with new technology, users would not be able to integrate without public access and wheelchair funding sources to purchase modern assistive technology devices.
The best wheelchair in the world would not help a disabled person to move about if society did not provide wheelchair ramps, specialized wheelchair parts, and other wheelchair accessories to enable access to public spaces, transportation, sidewalks, and roads.
While in some countries laws have been created and public funds have been set aside to help disabled people integrate, in many other countries access is not yet available, and wheelchair users are left at home. In such countries wheelchair individualization is still a thing of the future. Advances in assistive technology can improve the wheelchair, but it takes a progressive society to improve the surrounding world.
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Invacare Wheelchairs at Sportaid
Invacare is the world’s leading manufacturer of assistive technology products and mobility assistance devices for people with disabilities. Innovative products from Invacare that are available here on Sportaid.com include walkers, rollators, wheelchairs, and more.
Sportaid offers a full array of Invacare lightweight folding wheelchairs and lightweight rigid wheelchairs. In addition, Sportaid has wheelchair accessories, wheelchair tires, and wheelchair cushions and backs. Looking for a wheelchair or wheelchair parts and accessories? Shop online at Sportaid.com.
Invacare Wheelchairs – Behind the Brand
The beginning of Invacare wheelchairs as a brand can be traced all the way back to 1885. Years before becoming the extraordinary company it is today, the path was being laid for what would become the leading distributor and manufacturer of personal and medical wheelchairs. Invacare rose out of an entirely different organization called the Worthington Company, which was at the time producing wheelchairs and invalid chairs. While the company did produce an array of products the focus was always mainly on wheelchairs.
Battery vs. Fuel Cell Powered Wheelchairs
Energetics, a technology and management consulting firm specializing in research fields of energy, environment, homeland security, and global health conducted studies into the use of sodium hydride fuel cell systems to power wheelchairs. According to Edward G. Skolnik and Christina Y. TerMaath, Energetics, fuel cell systems could compete with battery systems for certain types of power wheelchair users.
Using a ten-year lifetime as a basis for the fuel cell powered wheelchair study, results indicated cost for the fuel cell technology were about six times more than for the conventional batteries in use. Skolnik and TerMaath predict that if the price of sodium hydride should drop due to a larger market, the cost difference would become small and the advantages of this alternative system would make it very attractive to all wheelchair users.
Analysis of a Non-recycling Hydrite System for Powered Wheelchairs, 2002. By Edward G. Skolnik and Christina Y. TerMaath, Media Post. http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/47_2_Boston_10-02_0186.pdf
The Division of Fuel Chemistry American Chemical Society provides a forum for documentation and communication to the international community of research and development results, in order to promote efficient and environmentally acceptable fuel production and use.
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Separate Benefits for Complex Rehab Technology
Establishing separate benefits for complex rehab technology is still a topic of great debate between US politicians and advocacy groups. These groups have a tough sale to deal with because of the lack of knowledge among US politicians with regard to assistive equipment and services needed by persons with complex disabilities and medical conditions.
According to Ann H. Carlson (April 2010) “Today’s PMDs give patients more independence than ever before—but low reimbursements threaten access to newer technologies.” PMDs (power mobility devices) are more complex than your everyday wheelchairs. In addition, unlike Invacare wheelchairs, lightweight wheelchairs, and even sport wheelchairs, these complex rehab technologywheelchairs and similar mobility devices are usually not covered in full under Medicare.
Economic hard times mean Medicare cuts for products and services needed by persons with extreme disabilities and medical conditions. Carlson’s article includes a list of steps to consider in order to obtain coverage when dealing with the procurement of PMDs.
Source — Rehab Management: The Power Struggle, April 2010. By Ann H. Carlson. Full Article: http://www.rehabpub.com/issues/articles/2010-04_05.asp
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Ultimate All Terrain Wheelchairs – Off Road Wheelchairs
Here on the Sportaid.com Blog we have discussed mobility devices including wheelchairs, lightweight wheelchairs, sport wheelchairs, and more. One of the coolest categories of wheelchairs that we offer on Sportaid.com can be found in our Outdoor Equipment listings for wheelchairs, wheelchair tires, and other wheelchair accessories. Check out our complete line of beach and pool wheelchairs, hunting and fishing wheelchair accessories, battery operated tree stands, and the ultimate all terrain wheelchairs.
These all terrain wheelchairs, often called off road wheelchairs, are what you need to enjoy the freedom of the outdoors in local parks, at the beach, and just about anywhere you dare go. Dirt, snow, sand, and gravel are no match for these outdoor all terrain wheelchairs.
Participate in the energetic and rewarding lifestyle that you deserve. With a 360-degree turning radius and shock absorbing tires, your ride will be as smooth as possible. Tackle those rugged, rocky surfaces that standard wheelchairs cannot navigate.
Sportaid has the largest selection of wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories on the net! Sportaid is a reputable supplier of wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories and is proud to provide you with a complete line of wheelchairs. Order your free Sportaid catalog today and see our offerings with pictures and prices listed in our catalog available for secure on-line ordering!
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Wheelchairs at Sportaid – Best Price Best Selection
When looking for a wheelchair, you will find the best selection and best price shopping for wheelchairs at Sportaid. Sportaid has a great selection of wheelchairs including the best brand names for everyday wheelchairs to sports wheelchairs. Sportaid.com is definitely the number one place to shop for affordable, high quality wheelchairs, wheelchair parts, and wheelchair accessories.
Looking for one of the greatest sports wheelchairs on the market? For an ultra lightweight rigid wheelchair with a smooth ride, check out the TiLite ZR Series 1 Titanium Wheelchair.
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Shop Sportaid.com where savings of 30% and more can be found for the best wheelchairs from a broad selection of named brand manufacturers including but not limited to, Quickie, Top End, TiLite, and others. Sportaid, a first-in-class Internet based company providing assistive devices to people with difficulties in mobility; all at the best prices on the net.
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