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MORE POWERTO THE PEOPLE
Spring/Summer issue
TheSPOKESMAN
The World’s Best Mobility and Seating SolutionsNews from Gerald Simonds
Suppliers of the World’s Best Mobility and Seating Solutions
LIGHTWEIGHT WHEELCHAIRS
POWERCHAIRS
STAND UP WHEELCHAIRS
COMFORT WHEELCHAIRS
POWERDRIVES
WHEELCHAIR SEATING
PRESSURE AREA CARE
WALKING AIDS
Gerald Simonds Healthcare Ltd.9 March Place, Gatehouse Way
Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 8UATel: 01296 380200
email: [email protected]
swimming and shooting were among the activitiescompetitors could take part in.
The NSIC team won two individual trophiesin table tennis and swimming and achieved bronze andsilver medals in bowls and table tennis. The three-dayevent had a positive impact on the whole team.
The Inter-Spinal Unit Games is a greatopportunity for people with spinal cord injury to trydifferent sports in a supported and encouragingenvironment. The guiding ethos is to encourageparticipation in sport, an aim established by the NSIC’sfounder, Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann, more thansixty years ago. Sport therapy not only works alongsidephysiotherapy, it also gives great social interaction anda confidence boost to people after a spinal cord injury.
Georgina Friend and Theresa Dunlop, SportsTherapy Clinical Support Workers at Stoke MandevilleSpinal Unit summed it up: ‘We are very proud of our teamand the personal achievements they each have made.’
The Spokesman has always been an outward sign ofthe relationship we have with our current and futurecustomers and friends. We see it as an opportunity forus to tell you about new developments in mobility andseating and for you to tell us about how you use them.Or how they could be improved. Or what else youwould like to see.
We are now launching an e-version ofSpokesman, to be accessed or distributed electronically.
Around eighty competitors from thirteen spinal unitsacross the UK tried their hand at a range of sports atthe 24th Inter-Spinal Unit Games held at StokeMandeville Stadium. We were proud to sponsor TheNational Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) team, from StokeMandeville Hospital, who came second overall in thegames, organised by the charity Wheelpower.
The event, held next to Stoke MandevilleHospital - birthplace of the Paralympic movement - isheld annually to promote a healthy and active lifestylethrough sport for people who have been paralysedduring the previous year.
The games feature a mix of competition and‘have-a-go’ sessions, allowing participants to experiencea wide range of sports. Archery, table tennis, bowls,
Gerald Simonds is pleased to be working withMotability, the national charity, to offer thebenefits of the Motability Scheme for poweredwheelchairs.
The Scheme enables recipients of theHigher Rate Mobility Component ofDisability Living Allowance or their WarPensioners' Mobility Supplement to use theirallowance to obtain a new powered wheelchair.Motability has overall responsibility for theMotability Scheme and may also be able to offerfinancial help towards the cost.
Through Motability, you simply turnpart, or all, of your allowance into the poweredwheelchair of your choice. And, with Motability,you also get all the support and help you need toenjoy worry-free mobility. Your lease includes a newpowered wheelchair of your choice every threeyears, standard nationwide pricing, insurance, loss
and damageprotection andbreakdown
assistance from Motability Assist - 24 hours a day,365 days a year. It really is that simple.
SUPPORTINGSUCCESS
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR..
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR..
Motability take part, or all, of yourallowance directly from the Department for Workand Pensions, or the Service Personnel andVeterans Agency and you get all the benefitsabove - there are no catches!
Choose a new powered wheelchair fromGerald Simonds and, before you place your order,our experts will go through a product suitabilityassessment with you to make sure you get aproduct you are happy with.
Email us on:[email protected] call us FREE on 0800 220975for more information.
To help us, it would be useful to know:1. Do you read The Spokesman regularly?2. Would like to receive the Spokesman
directly onto your computer?If so, please let us have your email address. You cancontact us by emailing: [email protected], calling FREE on 0800 220975 orby writing to The Editor, Spokesman, Gerald SimondsHealthcare Ltd., FREEPOST, Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 3BR.
ARE YOU READY FOR THE e-SPOKESMAN?
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR
The World’s Best Mobility Solutions
Quickie has combined the latest ultra light 'hydroformedaluminium' technology, design and engineering tocreate Xenon - the lightest folding wheelchair inthe world. At just under 8.4kg and with an innovativecross brace folding technology, Xenon is easy to fold,lift and transport. It has also been cleverly designed tocreate the kind of minimalistic style that you wouldexpect from a rigid chair.
Incorporating the new, patented DynamicFolding System and the Quickie® Locking System,Xenon can be folded in seconds with just one hand.Xenon locks automatically in the folded position withthe Quickie® Locking System. To unfold simply pressone lever and the Dynamic Folding System starts theunfolding process.
This innovative locking system makes Xenoneasy to handle, provides the smallest possible foldingpackage and helps people without finger function.
To custom build a virtual Xenon, try the newXenon Configurator on our website. Navigate to theQuickie Xenon page and click on Xenon Configurator.
FREE AND EASY WITH FREEWHEEL
The new TiLite Aero Z Series 2 builds on the designquality of the original Aero Z with a rigid frame,aluminium mono-tube construction. The newSpeedLoader adjustable front caster housingquickly and accurately adjusts the fork anglein one degree increments, while the highlyadjustable camber mount incorporatesTiLite's Tru Fit System, with up to 3.5" ofrear seat height adjustment. And you canrest assured that the Aero Z Series 2 willperform as well in five years as it does today.
With fully adjustable folding height andangle adjustable backrest, the Aero Z Series 2is fully customisable with six Colour AnodisePackages and nineteen frame colours to choose from.
Barry Brooks
Look out for the new crash testlogo which is now being used on
our website (www.gerald-simonds.co.uk)to show which models have been fully crash tested.
CRASH TEST
TILITE AERO Z Series 2When choice matters
Nesad takes a starring roll with a FreeWheel
..ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR
..
An independent review of theFreeWheel All Terrain WheelchairAdd-On by Barry Brooks, who brokehis neck, C6/7, and became paralysedthree weeks before his seventeenthbirthday. He went on to specialise inwriting TV commercials, havingworked on some of the world’s topbrands and eventually running hisown agency in the heart of London.
He also found time to travelwidely and win a couple of Olympicswimming medals! He now sits ongovernment tribunals and still findstime to write.
“ ”They say there’s nothing new under the sun. But wouldyou settle for something that was a little bit new? A littlebit better? I would if that little bit new and better wasthe FreeWheel, available from Gerald Simonds.
It’s a third wheel for that old wheelchair ofyours, a third wheel that even a novice para can get alittle more whiz from, and the sort of freedom to pushand enjoy that an old para could only dream of. Untiltoday that is, because the FreeWheel, according to DougRobinson, MD of Gerald Simonds,‘is one of the bestadvances in wheelchair independence in years.’
What’s truly remarkable, in the over-pricedwheelchair world of ‘how could anything dare to cost somuch!’ is how, at £395, (or £375 including delivery ifyou buy online at www.gs-direct.co.uk).
The FreeWheel is an American invention. It’s asimple wheel that clips on to the front of a rigid framechair’s foot plates (sorry only rigid frame chairs – at themoment). The wheel is about a foot in diameter andraises your plates off the ground leaving you with astable, go-anywhere (well nearly) chair. You can cutacross grass, go through snow, cross over sand and takeon terrain that previously would have left you stranded,and generally become free as a Californian beach bum.
The FreeWheel is to our world of wheelchairswhat the 4-wheel drive is to the world of cars. Nowhereis off limits. It just opens up the options. Attach it andyour chair truly becomes a land rover, just like itscapitalised car counterpart. And all with a wheel less.
Technically it’s Germanic in itsprecision and Honda-like in its absolutefitness to do the job it was designed for. It’ssimple to clip on and, once on, stays thatway, come rough ground or even rougherhandling. Then, when it’s time to revertback to the orthodox you, it practically zipsoff, it’s so easy and immediate.
To see the FreeWheel in actionand showing all its amazing virtues, simplycheck into the Gerald Simonds website atwww.gerald-simonds.co.uk. There you’ll finda short video that will put you fully in thepicture.
He would say that,wouldn’t he!Gerald Simonds Mobility Specialist, Nesad Causevic(right), tries out the FreeWheel All TerrainWheelchair Add-On.
Nesad, a wheelchair user himself, said: ‘Overthe years I’ve tried out lots of different wheelchairattachments, but I have to say that the FreeWheel isfantastic. It’s the best thing I’ve tried. It really does freeyou up and lets you go almost anywhere’.
QUICKIE XENON Lightest folding wheelchair in the world
NEW Additions to the Gerald Simonds’ range
ON THE ROADOnce again this year we exhibited at The MobilityRoadshow, held at the East of England Showground,Peterborough at the end of June. A steady stream ofcustomers old and new came on to our stand toexperience at first hand our range of the world’s bestmobility and seating solutions.
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR
The World’s Best Mobility Solutions
Quickie has combined the latest ultra light 'hydroformedaluminium' technology, design and engineering tocreate Xenon - the lightest folding wheelchair inthe world. At just under 8.4kg and with an innovativecross brace folding technology, Xenon is easy to fold,lift and transport. It has also been cleverly designed tocreate the kind of minimalistic style that you wouldexpect from a rigid chair.
Incorporating the new, patented DynamicFolding System and the Quickie® Locking System,Xenon can be folded in seconds with just one hand.Xenon locks automatically in the folded position withthe Quickie® Locking System. To unfold simply pressone lever and the Dynamic Folding System starts theunfolding process.
This innovative locking system makes Xenoneasy to handle, provides the smallest possible foldingpackage and helps people without finger function.
To custom build a virtual Xenon, try the newXenon Configurator on our website. Navigate to theQuickie Xenon page and click on Xenon Configurator.
FREE AND EASY WITH FREEWHEEL
The new TiLite Aero Z Series 2 builds on the designquality of the original Aero Z with a rigid frame,aluminium mono-tube construction. The newSpeedLoader adjustable front caster housingquickly and accurately adjusts the fork anglein one degree increments, while the highlyadjustable camber mount incorporatesTiLite's Tru Fit System, with up to 3.5" ofrear seat height adjustment. And you canrest assured that the Aero Z Series 2 willperform as well in five years as it does today.
With fully adjustable folding height andangle adjustable backrest, the Aero Z Series 2is fully customisable with six Colour AnodisePackages and nineteen frame colours to choose from.
Barry Brooks
Look out for the new crash testlogo which is now being used on
our website (www.gerald-simonds.co.uk)to show which models have been fully crash tested.
CRASH TEST
TILITE AERO Z Series 2When choice matters
Nesad takes a starring roll with a FreeWheel
..ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR
..
An independent review of theFreeWheel All Terrain WheelchairAdd-On by Barry Brooks, who brokehis neck, C6/7, and became paralysedthree weeks before his seventeenthbirthday. He went on to specialise inwriting TV commercials, havingworked on some of the world’s topbrands and eventually running hisown agency in the heart of London.
He also found time to travelwidely and win a couple of Olympicswimming medals! He now sits ongovernment tribunals and still findstime to write.
“ ”They say there’s nothing new under the sun. But wouldyou settle for something that was a little bit new? A littlebit better? I would if that little bit new and better wasthe FreeWheel, available from Gerald Simonds.
It’s a third wheel for that old wheelchair ofyours, a third wheel that even a novice para can get alittle more whiz from, and the sort of freedom to pushand enjoy that an old para could only dream of. Untiltoday that is, because the FreeWheel, according to DougRobinson, MD of Gerald Simonds,‘is one of the bestadvances in wheelchair independence in years.’
What’s truly remarkable, in the over-pricedwheelchair world of ‘how could anything dare to cost somuch!’ is how, at £395, (or £375 including delivery ifyou buy online at www.gs-direct.co.uk).
The FreeWheel is an American invention. It’s asimple wheel that clips on to the front of a rigid framechair’s foot plates (sorry only rigid frame chairs – at themoment). The wheel is about a foot in diameter andraises your plates off the ground leaving you with astable, go-anywhere (well nearly) chair. You can cutacross grass, go through snow, cross over sand and takeon terrain that previously would have left you stranded,and generally become free as a Californian beach bum.
The FreeWheel is to our world of wheelchairswhat the 4-wheel drive is to the world of cars. Nowhereis off limits. It just opens up the options. Attach it andyour chair truly becomes a land rover, just like itscapitalised car counterpart. And all with a wheel less.
Technically it’s Germanic in itsprecision and Honda-like in its absolutefitness to do the job it was designed for. It’ssimple to clip on and, once on, stays thatway, come rough ground or even rougherhandling. Then, when it’s time to revertback to the orthodox you, it practically zipsoff, it’s so easy and immediate.
To see the FreeWheel in actionand showing all its amazing virtues, simplycheck into the Gerald Simonds website atwww.gerald-simonds.co.uk. There you’ll finda short video that will put you fully in thepicture.
He would say that,wouldn’t he!Gerald Simonds Mobility Specialist, Nesad Causevic(right), tries out the FreeWheel All TerrainWheelchair Add-On.
Nesad, a wheelchair user himself, said: ‘Overthe years I’ve tried out lots of different wheelchairattachments, but I have to say that the FreeWheel isfantastic. It’s the best thing I’ve tried. It really does freeyou up and lets you go almost anywhere’.
QUICKIE XENON Lightest folding wheelchair in the world
NEW Additions to the Gerald Simonds’ range
ON THE ROADOnce again this year we exhibited at The MobilityRoadshow, held at the East of England Showground,Peterborough at the end of June. A steady stream ofcustomers old and new came on to our stand toexperience at first hand our range of the world’s bestmobility and seating solutions.
MORE POWERTO THE PEOPLE
Spring/Summer issue
TheSPOKESMAN
The World’s Best Mobility and Seating SolutionsNews from Gerald Simonds
Suppliers of the World’s Best Mobility and Seating Solutions
LIGHTWEIGHT WHEELCHAIRS
POWERCHAIRS
STAND UP WHEELCHAIRS
COMFORT WHEELCHAIRS
POWERDRIVES
WHEELCHAIR SEATING
PRESSURE AREA CARE
WALKING AIDS
Gerald Simonds Healthcare Ltd.9 March Place, Gatehouse Way
Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 8UATel: 01296 380200
email: [email protected]
swimming and shooting were among the activitiescompetitors could take part in.
The NSIC team won two individual trophiesin table tennis and swimming and achieved bronze andsilver medals in bowls and table tennis. The three-dayevent had a positive impact on the whole team.
The Inter-Spinal Unit Games is a greatopportunity for people with spinal cord injury to trydifferent sports in a supported and encouragingenvironment. The guiding ethos is to encourageparticipation in sport, an aim established by the NSIC’sfounder, Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann, more thansixty years ago. Sport therapy not only works alongsidephysiotherapy, it also gives great social interaction anda confidence boost to people after a spinal cord injury.
Georgina Friend and Theresa Dunlop, SportsTherapy Clinical Support Workers at Stoke MandevilleSpinal Unit summed it up: ‘We are very proud of our teamand the personal achievements they each have made.’
The Spokesman has always been an outward sign ofthe relationship we have with our current and futurecustomers and friends. We see it as an opportunity forus to tell you about new developments in mobility andseating and for you to tell us about how you use them.Or how they could be improved. Or what else youwould like to see.
We are now launching an e-version ofSpokesman, to be accessed or distributed electronically.
Around eighty competitors from thirteen spinal unitsacross the UK tried their hand at a range of sports atthe 24th Inter-Spinal Unit Games held at StokeMandeville Stadium. We were proud to sponsor TheNational Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) team, from StokeMandeville Hospital, who came second overall in thegames, organised by the charity Wheelpower.
The event, held next to Stoke MandevilleHospital - birthplace of the Paralympic movement - isheld annually to promote a healthy and active lifestylethrough sport for people who have been paralysedduring the previous year.
The games feature a mix of competition and‘have-a-go’ sessions, allowing participants to experiencea wide range of sports. Archery, table tennis, bowls,
Gerald Simonds is pleased to be working withMotability, the national charity, to offer thebenefits of the Motability Scheme for poweredwheelchairs.
The Scheme enables recipients of theHigher Rate Mobility Component ofDisability Living Allowance or their WarPensioners' Mobility Supplement to use theirallowance to obtain a new powered wheelchair.Motability has overall responsibility for theMotability Scheme and may also be able to offerfinancial help towards the cost.
Through Motability, you simply turnpart, or all, of your allowance into the poweredwheelchair of your choice. And, with Motability,you also get all the support and help you need toenjoy worry-free mobility. Your lease includes a newpowered wheelchair of your choice every threeyears, standard nationwide pricing, insurance, loss
and damageprotection andbreakdown
assistance from Motability Assist - 24 hours a day,365 days a year. It really is that simple.
SUPPORTINGSUCCESS
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR..
ALBER / ETAC / HANDICARE / JAY / KUSCHALL / LEVO / MAXGREPP / PROACTIV / QUICKIE / TILITE / VICAIR..
Motability take part, or all, of yourallowance directly from the Department for Workand Pensions, or the Service Personnel andVeterans Agency and you get all the benefitsabove - there are no catches!
Choose a new powered wheelchair fromGerald Simonds and, before you place your order,our experts will go through a product suitabilityassessment with you to make sure you get aproduct you are happy with.
Email us on:[email protected] call us FREE on 0800 220975for more information.
To help us, it would be useful to know:1. Do you read The Spokesman regularly?2. Would like to receive the Spokesman
directly onto your computer?If so, please let us have your email address. You cancontact us by emailing: [email protected], calling FREE on 0800 220975 orby writing to The Editor, Spokesman, Gerald SimondsHealthcare Ltd., FREEPOST, Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 3BR.
ARE YOU READY FOR THE e-SPOKESMAN?
