New Mobility

Bowhead’s new ultraportable Nano has the potential to change the way many wheelchair users travel, much like the company’s line of high-end handcycles changed adaptive outdoor recreation. Weighing under 10lbs and quickly folding to fit in your lap, the Nano is compact enough to serve as a lightweight shower chair or an airplane aisle chair. Arielle Rausin, a T11 paraplegic an...

In more than 50 years as a manual wheelchair user, Pam Daly has amassed so many wheelchair repair horror stories that she can no longer keep track of which ones she’s told — or who she’s told them to. There’s the time her brake fell off while she was sitting on the toilet in a store; the time a caster fell off repeatedly while she was on vacation in New York City; and the tim...

What if you took a handful of the best features from premium catheters and put them into a catheter that came with a small, portable base that allowed you to easily clean, disinfect and reuse the catheter? That’s the idea behind Aurie, a reusable intermittent catheter system that is looking to disrupt and improve how users get and use intermittent catheters. Earlier this year...

I work with many people who have experienced strokes or brain injury, which cause destruction or deterioration of brain cells and can result in muscle weakness, mobility impairments, fatigue, disturbed sleep, inattention, impaired speech and memory, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, dizziness and headaches. For many years, it was believed that a damaged brain could not r...

As a manual wheelchair user for 22 years, I like to stay up to date on the “latest and greatest” tools and mobility devices designed for our community. It’s not often that I come across a product that truly excites me, but when I saw the Bowhead Nano I instantly hoped this product would literally and metaphorically take a weight off my shoulders when it comes to traveling.