What are the Top 5 products most useful when you own a wheelchair accessible vehicle?
In this article, we’ll be taking a look at a range of products that can make your life easier, more comfortable and potentially safer whilst you are getting in and out of or driving your accessible vehicle as a wheelchair user.
We have picked out the top 5 products that we consider to be the most useful, however there are in fact, many other products that may be equally or more useful depending on your vehicle use and the particular issue you are dealing with.
It’s true to say that the range, diversity and innovation of car and travel aids is increasing rapidly as manufacturers aim to satisfy this rapidly growing market.
It’s good news for users of wheelchair accessible vehicles as it means there is a much greater choice of products than ever before aimed at making life easier and more comfortable during every journey.
These products augment the many technical innovations that are factory-fitted to many new accessible vehicles, so giving you as the driver a comprehensive range of useful options.
1. Lockable Disabled Badge Holder and Timer Wallet
Firstly, here’s a great idea that comes in the form of a Lockable Disabled Badge Holder and Timer Wallet.
This equally stylish and useful product is designed to prevent the theft of your Blue Badge Holder from your car whilst parked.
The Blue Badge Holder is manufactured from high grade, heavy duty metal to ensure ultimate safety and security.
The hologram safe holder helps to protect a blue badge and timer card from damage whilst also making it clearly visible to inspectors.
The wallet comes with a time chart included so that your time of arrival can be quickly and easily changed with minimum hassle. Overall a simple and stylish design that is easy to operate.
2. Car Support Handle
When you drive a wheelchair accessible vehicle, it’s more important than ever to know that you can enter the vehicle driver door and seat in safety whilst maintaining the integrity of your balance and weight transfer.
One product that can be especially useful in this regard is the car support handle.
This amazingly strong and supportive device quickly and easily attaches to your door catch and then provides a firm and safe handle that can be used to bear your weight as you enter or leave your vehicle.
The car support handle, as the image shows, gives you that little extra security and reassurance right where you need it in your accessible vehicle.
It also promotes independence as you are not having to rely on friends or relatives for lifting and support whilst entering or attempting to leave your vehicle.
Another important and especially useful feature of the car support handle is that is can double up as an emergency tool that comes with a built in seat belt cutter and hammer feature. This can be used to break glass in the case of emergency.
3. Soft Transfer Cushion
A soft transfer cushion can really help you when you find it difficult to swivel on the seat to leave the vehicle after driving.
This is one of those situations in your car where the ligaments and muscles in the lumbar area of the spine can be under great strain and give painful response when trying to twist out of the car to enter or leave.
This cushion features a soft, padded, flexible turning disc ideal for use on car seats, chairs and beds - so great not only in the car, but also within the home itself.
The soft transfer cushion works by allowing the easy rotation of the user, when the surface of the cushion swivels on its base, therefore allowing easier alighting or leaving of the vehicle.
It is a soft feeling cushion that can remain in place for the whole of the journey, providing a comfortable sitting position throughout.
4. 5 Function Massage Cushion with Heat
The 5 Function Massage Cushion with Heat is ideal for providing back and shoulder relief and is equally at home in the car, or placed upon any seat, or the bed, in the home setting.
This unique and innovative massage chair delivers a high quality relaxing massage function to stimulate and relieve major muscle groups, including the lumbar region of the spine (lower back) the spine, neck and shoulders.
The attractive heated seat cover has been designed with five massage motors, with 3 speeds of intensity to relieve aches and pains in the upper and lower back, hips and thighs.
It’s a versatile device, sitting on top of an existing car seat, thanks to the car adapter which is very easy to use to power the cushion.
5. Car Sticker
Our last product is especially useful for virtually all wheelchair accessible vehicle drivers, as it helps to alleviate the problem of other drivers who have a bad habit of parking too close to your vehicle, so making it very difficult for you to get your wheelchair or scooter in or out of your vehicle.
This car sticker is very effective at just giving that clear and bound-to-be-seen warning that in the vast majority of cases will be an effective deterrent to people parking too close for your access requirements.
We hope you’ve found the roundup of most useful products for you as a wheelchair accessible vehicle informative.
Your only question now is, where are you going to travel to in your vehicle? Well rest assured, there are some great ideas in our recent blog article that gives you some of the best wheelchair accessible attractions to visit in the UK. Read the full article here.
Product reviews courtesy of national mobility retailer, Mobility Smart, see more useful products and a full range of mobility aids on their website here.
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