Apart from many mobility aids enabling people to get out and about as well as moving around their own home, they also provide a chance for the user to excercise and to try and maintain strength of various parts of the body.

The movement also helps with circulation which can help someone recovering if they are just using mobility aids temporarily but also its beneficial for the long term user of mobility aids.

To help keep up leg strength and from the comfort of your own home you can use a Pedal Exerciser, you even have the comfort of being able to stay seated in your favorite chair, you just place the pedal exerciser in front of you on the floor, slip your feet onto the pedals and can do a gentle pedal.

It can help maintain muscle in your lower and upper legs and is even good to warm up those muscles for a few minutes and getting the blood flowing nicely before actually venturing outside.

You have the freedom to pedal for as little or as long as you’re comfortable with and by doing it as regularly as possible you keep blood flowing well throughout your legs which also helps the circulation throughout your whole body.

You can usually adjust the resistance setting so that it’s not too difficult for you and the pedals are non-slip to avoid any accidents.

A pedal exerciser can be purchased for around £25 and one should last you for quite some time and provide you with gentle and comfortable excercise any time that you’re ready to use it.

Depending on how you use your walking stick there can be times when only a part of the ferrule of the walking stick is in contact with the ground, thats the rubber part that you see on the end of the stick.

Furrules are available to purchase to replace the worn-out one and they are easy to fit but for around about the same price you can purchase a flexible ferrule and how it works is that the flat bottom can stay touching the floor or ground completely while your walking stick can be at an angle so that you benefit from the furrule having better contact with the ground while still having normal use of your walking stick.

You can pick up a flexible ferrule for under £3 and they are well worth it for added safety and piece of mind knowing that not just the edge but instead the whole bottom of the ferrule is touching the floor or ground as you walk.

For manual wheelchairs, you can buy spare types for both the large back wheels and also the front castor wheels, they usually come in sizes between 18 and 24 inches for the large back wheels and there usually isn’t much price difference between the small castor tyres and the large back tyres but fortunately they are generally inexpensive.

Because the tyres are taking the full weight of the wheelchair and user, they will in time wear down and less grip on the tyres can mean less traction and require more of an effort by the wheelchair user, but there’s also the factor of safety, for example making your way up or down a ramp, you want to make sure that the tyres have enough grip on them to prevent any chance of sliding or not being able to stop properly.

Both the castor type and the larger tyres will usually be priced at around £8 upwards, generally costing not much more, and thats cost per tyre.

When buying spares and replacing parts on a manual wheelchair, the tyres are probably one of the most important to deal with as they are the parts touching the ground and taking most of the wear and tear over time.