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CRT Showcase: Quantum Rehab Stretto
speaks to its adult compatibility. “If you have an 18"-wide seat and you don’t move the arms in, the arms are going
to be the widest point; they’re going to go over the drive wheel,” Brislin said. “But if you have a 16"-wide seat, or you have an 18" [seat width] and you move the arms in, you’re going to fit within the confines of that base. Think
of all the people who have 16" or 18" seats. Now that person who lives in a mobile home or in an assisted living situation can have a rehab chair that can maneuver around the environment.”
Brislin recalled an assessment years ago for a client living
in a home with 23" wide hall- ways. That client ended up in a consumer power chair because
no complex rehab chair could fit through those hallways and make the tight turns required to enter the bathroom. “Stretto would have been the answer,” he said. “Now
you’ve got a chair that is 21" wide or less that you can put full power positioning on. Now you have a rehab chair that can go down this 23" hallway.
“That was the premise of the project. We didn’t want
it to do some of what the Edge 3 does; we wanted it to do everything the Edge 3 does. I am pumped about this chair; I think it solves a lot of problems that people run into on a daily basis.”
And without compromise.
“Complex rehab in general is a give-and-take,” Brislin said. It’s ‘Here are all the things my client needs,’ and you boil that down to ‘What are the nice-to-haves, what are the need-to-haves?’ I think this chair is going to help solve some of these issues. It opens up a whole new opportunity for a lot of people, and you’re not compro- mising. That’s what I’m really happy about.” m
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