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I Just Want A Wheelchair I Can Use!
Erin’s tells of her saga, now nearly two years long, of inappropriate and incorrect wheelchairs being supplied and how she can’t get proper support because her condition is formally undiagnosed. Many people have undiagnosed disabilities – this does not make them any less real or mean the people who have them are any less in need of assistive technologies. Read more »
What Do Average Doctors Know About Wheelchairs?
Last week I received a letter from Domiciliary Equipment Services here in SA because I am due to get a new wheelchair soon. I have been driving an electric wheelchair for over 15 years. What they are telling me is that before I can have my new chair that I have to be assessed as MEDICALLY FIT TO DO SO by my bloody DOCTOR and then a further PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT by an OT or PHYSIO. Read more »
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