Permobil’s Solutions & Resources for Fighting COVID-19
Permobil teams across the globe have worked quickly and intentionally on several initiatives that minimize the risk of spreading contamination, while allowing us to continue to serve your needs. Click on the link below to find additional information on our strategic priorities during this time.
Explorer Mini: Independence through exploration
Permobil is excited to introduce the Explorer Mini, a developmentally-inspired power mobility device designed to help aid in the achievement of early childhood milestones by promoting self-initiated movement.
The Explorer Mini gives young children, 12-36 months of age with mobility impairments, the opportunity to increase their independence through exploration.
Real-time power wheelchair insights
MyPermobil communicates directly with your power wheelchair and provides the most up-to-date information on individual battery range estimates, distance and seating behavior.
PushTracker E2 & SwitchControl
A seamless power assist experience: paired with the PushTracker E2 and SwitchControl, SmartDrive offers added flexibility, convenience and control options to empower your active lifestyle.
Reach for More
Engage with your world like never before with Permobil power positioning. ActiveHeight™ lets you rise above the status quo with 12″ and 14″ seat elevator options and ActiveReach™ forward tilt technology creates 4.5″ of additional reach. Vertical stand allows for socialization at a peer-to-peer level.
Inspired design
The F-Series builds on over 50 years of experience to create our most capable family of front wheel drive power wheelchairs ever. We’ve combined a low center of gravity, optimized weight distribution and powerful high efficiency motors to offer enhanced base stability, obstacle climbing and chair responsiveness.
Stand without compromise
We combined all of the performance features of the F5 Corpus with superior power standing functionality. Fully programmable standing sequences allow user position to be optimized using supine, semi-reclined or sit-to-stand techniques.
Strength and stability
Power meets performance on the new F5 Corpus with a blazing 7.5mph top end speed and upgraded ComfortRide Pro suspension. All-wheel independent, fully adjustable, oil dampened shocks provide the ultimate in ride comfort while helping to reduce vibrations that can transfer from terrain up to user.
Small footprint, big impact
The F3 Corpus offers the smallest footprint of the F-series front wheel drive power wheelchairs. Its compact size and agility allows users to easily maneuver in and out of tight spaces.
Ergo Seating Options: All Rigid Frames
The Ergonomic Advantage provides an additional unique bend in the frame creating an ergonomic seat slope sitting you lower in the chair providing greater pelvic stability and improved posture through optimal contouring.
The powerful assistant for your power assist.
The Smart Evaluation App is a mobile based app for clinicians, ATPs and SmartDrive users developed to improve safety, connectivity, training, and evaluations efforts for SmartDrive devices anywhere
Ready for Take Off
Watch your kid soar in the ultra-lightweight TiLite Pilot. The TiLite Pilot has built-in forward growth adjustment to grow with your child and maintain optimal rear wheel access. The ultra-lightweight design and carbon fiber frame panels make it 50% lighter and a breeze for kids to navigate all the adventures of their great big world.
Connectivity Comes Standard
We live in a world where connection is everything. Your chair should be no exception. Using the latest technology, your chair now connects you to your service technician through a single, intuitive platform to improve communication, provide real-time diagnostics and help you conquer anything the world throws at you.
Durable, Comfortable, Adjustable
BodiLink® is a family of wheelchair seating and positioning accessories that combine best-in-class hardware and anatomically designed pads to provide the highest level of adjustability and comfort to meet a wide array of patient’s unique positioning needs.
One Chair. Endless Options
Finally, a true Permobil quality solution for those users who require a more traditional rehab style seating system with limited to no power seat functions. Designed with adaptable seating and positioning needs in mind, the M1 offers all the flexibility without the compromise.
Education & Evidence
Proof in motion.
The right chair can make all the difference — in your life, in your independence, and in your long-term health. See how we’re using the latest medical research to deliver information that moves everyone in our industry forward.
Latest Blog Posts
Smart Actuators: what are they and what do they do?
Today's blog is written by Rachel Maher, our clinical education specialist in Australia.
Actuators are used on power wheelchairs to make the seat move – so it is an actuator that makes a seat move back into tilt, or the back support recline, or the leg supports elevate. A smart actuator is an actuator that has a sensor attached to it, allowing it to sense its position in space. A smart actuator is able to sense its position at any point between being fully retracted or fully extended, or for example whether the seat is in no tilt, or in 15 degrees of tilt, or 45 degrees, as opposed to being in no tilt, or full tilt.
Lessons learned in our many years of developing Standing Power Wheelchairs
It is easy to look at the F5 Corpus VS and be in awe of its ability to transition someone from sitting to standing with smoothness and grace. While the flagship chair of the Permobil line is amazing in all capacities we cannot overlook the lessons we have learned in the last 43 years of manufacturing standing power wheelchairs. What you all know as the F5 Corpus VS was a lifelong journey of love, dedication, and the drive to give our end users the same technological advantages that we all use in our everyday lives
Lesson #1: End users need a full range of power seat functions
While the first Permobil standing power wheelchair in 1977 was innovative, we quickly discovered that compromising other power seat functions to achieve our goal was not ideal. From only utilizing recline and power leg movements, to limiting tilt to 25 degrees in the 1980’s and 90’s, we learned that asking our end users to give up key components of their seating system would not best meet their needs. In 2004, with the introduction of the Permobil Combi, we accomplished our goal of giving our power wheelchair end users full power seat functions and did away with the “either/or” option. Our standing wheelchair has continued to evolve into what we know today as the F5 Corpus VS.
Maintaining Your Ride: Wheelchair Maintenance & Cleaning FAQs
This is last blog in the series Maintaining Your Ride. Check outblog 1,blog 2,blog 3, and blog 4.
This is the last part in our maintaining your ride blog series. So far we’ve covered cleaning and disinfecting seating and positioning products, manual wheelchairs, and power wheelchair. We’ve also discussed maintaining your power or manual wheelchair. Now we turn to some FAQs regarding wheelchair cleaning and maintenance. If you have a question about this topic, please post it in the comments section.
We take a personal approach to complex rehab equipment.
That’s right, personal.
Because we know every person faces unique challenges in mobility, comfort and safety. Challenges our pioneering spirit can solve through design, engineering and technology.
Made for you by:
Oura Sati
Production Line Operator
Made for you by:
Demetrius Chism
Plastics Team Leader
Made for you by:
Cesar Lancaster
Production Worker, Fabrication
United in purpose.
More than 40 years ago, Permobil was founded with an idea: that what people can achieve should never be a question of ability, and we have the technology to make this dream possible. This belief is the very foundation of each of our brands – Permobil, TiLite and ROHO.
Permobil Power Wheelchairs
The industry standard in enhancing mobility with more capable, more personal electric power chairs.
Manual Wheelchairs
Pioneers in lightweight personalized wheelchairs, built for life.
Seating + Positioning
Advanced seating and positioning for proven comfort and skin protection for everyone, compatible with any wheelchair.
