Wheelchair Safety with Integrity: Inspiring Mobility through Solidarity
In a world where the power of perception often shapes our understanding of others as well as ourselves, it’s crucial to embark on an exploration of wheelchair safety in solidarity with promoting inclusive mobility that values integrity and wellness beyond physical needs. Debunking prevailing social myths surrounding the cognitive capabilities of individual mobility device users,…
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Safeguarding Wheelchair Users: Unveiling 3 Key Environmental Barriers that Impact the Safe Use of Wheelchairs
In this blog, you will learn how wheelchairs can enrich quality of life as you discover the three most common yet impactful environmental obstacles as well as ways to overcome them. From accessibility options, weather conditions, to population density, we break these factors down thoroughly in relation to mobility safety. Our goal of the Wheelchair…
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3 Reasons for Accidents with Wheelchairs that Might Surprise You (Technological Factors)
Safety is a prevalent issue related to wheelchair use, with one study highlighting that 55% of wheelchair users reported experiencing at least one collision, and 17% reported experiencing two or more collisions within a three year period. You can read our earlier blog article on the prevalence of wheelchair collisions for additional statistics. Here is…
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VA collaborates to improve safety of power wheelchair users
Over 425 participants tuned in over two days to see 19 external health care innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups pitch their early-stage solutions for the chance to collaborate at VA’s annual Innovation Experience, a collaboration challenge to find innovative ideas to solve VA’s biggest health care challenges. Gulf Coast VA completed its collaboration with Braze Mobility to…
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U.S. Rehab Signs Partnership Agreement with Braze Mobility
June 10, 2022 (Waterloo, Iowa) U.S. Rehab, a division of VGM & Associates, announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Braze Mobility Inc. to make the innovative Braze Blind Spot Sensors for wheelchairs available to its members nationwide. Braze Mobility Inc. has created the world’s first blind spot sensors that can be added to any…
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Central Arkansas VA to be flagship for mobility safety program
A snippet from the article written by Chris Counts at Kark.com: The Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is researching new ways to make wheelchairs and mobility chairs safer for Veterans. The organization is one of seven Veterans Health Administration sites, and the flagship site, in doing so. In a partnership with Braze Mobility, Inc., 20…
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