For individuals needing a stronger walking frame than is usually used by most people, they have the opportunity to purchase a bariatric walking frame that is designed just like the others but with the ability to support more body weight, often up to around 50 Stone.

They are usually solid but still light weight so that using the frame doesn’t require excessive effort, you will find rigid and folding bariatric frames and they are usually height adjustable.

Diffirence in price occurs with bariatric frames because they are strong and solid enough to support extra body weight so prices will often vary from around £150 – £280 depending on what you’re looking for.

As technology improves over the years and designers of products get a better understanding of what people want and need it means that products get closer each time to what people are looking for.

The mobility market has seen great improvement over the years with better designs and more new products that make a difference to the daily living of individuals with disabilities.

Of importance is the fact that a wide selection caters for different ages, body sizes and people that may have more than one mobility issue to deal with, many mobility aids are about giving the user as much independence as possible and assist in allowing the user to do what they want to, with as much comfort and as little challenge as possible.

No matter how much new information the designers and manufacturers can gather about mobility products it’s the users of the products themselves that really have the best understanding as they use them often enough to know and understand how various aids can be improved and redesigned to make them even better.

A question to the consumers of mobility aids is, how have you found mobility aids improving for you during your time using them? If you’re a long term user of mobility aids, what has been the most significant improvement that you have seen and experienced?

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Have you noticed how some of the bags that can be fitted to wheelchairs are the type that go on the backrest of the wheelchair? This is handy in many cases and you can fit a fair amount of items in them but sometimes it’s a less suitable storage space for a few reasons.

One of those reasons is that if you are out on your own, then to get to anything in the bag you have to get out of your wheelchair and walk around to the back of the wheelchair to take something out of the bag or to put something in it.

There’s also the fact that you cant keep as close an eye as you may like to on the bag behind you, you may not have anything valuable in the bag but in certain situations it wouldn’t stop a less than honest person maybe slipping a hand into your bag behind you when you’re distracted.

A storage area that may suit you more at times is to have an underseat bag attached to your wheelchair, it means that you may find it easy to reach forward and put something in the bag or remove an item because its closer for you to access, this will be dependant on any difficulties that you may have of course.

This method of storage is safe regarding weight balance as the bag is directly under the seat and you may feel more relaxed knowing that any items in the bag are directly underneath you and not out of view behind you.

An underseat bag wont affect the positioning of your legs either as these types of bags are designed to fit neatly underneath the seat and not protrude in any way so they dont affect comfort or normal use of your whelchair.