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you can dial it in exactly the way you want it.”
“With this new patented caster mechanism, you now
have easy access to make those casters perpendic- ular to the floor to eliminate floaters,” Ibarra said. “The new design also gives you the option to adjust inward or outward if necessary. If you want to set up extreme camber, the caster mechanism would allow you to do that. And the last thing is height adjustment: You can move the entire stem either up or down for fine-tuning to make sure all four points of the wheelchair are level.”
“One of my good friends is known at her high-end facility as the Quarter-Inch Queen,” Kiger said, “because to her, a quarter-inch matters — those little things that you can do to get those casters set up just right.”
Visualizing Clients in a Nitrum
While the Twist-Lock back, caster adjustment options, and new LED lights embedded in the frame are Nitrum’s most visible features, one of the most helpful from an assessment perspective is the 3D Visualizer. This online tool enables consumers, clinicians and ATPs to spec out a Nitrum and see the effects of their selections.
“I think it’s perfect for current social distancing,” Ibarra
said of the ability to see a configured Nitrum from the safety of home or home office. Kiger added, “It’s very educational too, because sometimes people will say, ‘I want to [sit] at 90°.’ And we can say, ‘Let me show you what that’s going to look like.’ It is an educational tool for therapists and the ATP to go over with the end user. They can literally see how the angles of the lower-extremity supports change or the frame angle changes or the bend changes within that tool.”
An Augmented Reality feature can display a newly configured Nitrum in a consumer’s bedroom or hallway, giving clients and their seating teams an advance look at how QUICKIE’s latest ultralight rigid will look at home.
“It’s all about the reliability of our products,” Ibarra said of Nitrum’s debut. “At the end of the day, if I can [lose] a couple of pounds, that’s nothing if I don’t have a good- rolling chair that can pass the enormous amount of testing we do to make sure we have a quality product.
“As times progress and we continue to learn about other materials and manufacturing processes, we have to take that next step about what we can do with our designs from a wheelchair standpoint.” m
—Laurie Watanabe
MobilityMgmt.com
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