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The Importance of Suspension in Power Wheelchair Use

What is suspension and why is everybody talking about it?

A thief gave me the world

This week we're pleased tofeature Robbie Vance and his uplifting account of how getting his power wheelchair opened the door to opportunities and helped him recover many parts of his life that facioscapulohumeral (FSH) muscular dystrophy had taken away.

I fought it. The symbol of weakness sat by itself in the guest room where I never went. Whenever I struggled to walk past the door, I purposefully averted my eyes, looking down or away. I did anything I could to avoid dealing with the wheelchair the young guy delivered in October of 2007. It was an ominous sign of my fading independence that I hated both for its invasion of my house and what it stood for.

TiLite Pilot FAQs

Part4 in our blogseries focusing on Pediatric Mobility Solutions and the TiLite Pilot.SeePart 1,Part 2, and Part 3.