Active Hands’ move to Headwall Hosting Reaps Benefits
Active Hands moved our website hosting to Headwall managed wordpress Hosting. We have seen many benefits from the service.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Active Hands. We are closed over the Christmas holidays but you can still place orders.
Pushing for the Paralympics: Kylie Grimes
An avid athlete and show jumper, it didn’t take Kylie long to transition into a Paralympian after a 2006 diving accident left her paralysed at C5/6 level. In 2009, only three years after her injury, she cycled 450km from Vietnam to Cambodia in order to raise money for charity, and by 2011 she was having …
Pushing for the Paralympics: Brandon Beack
Brandon is a former gymnast from Cape Town, South Africa, who was involved in a training accident in 2012, when he was just 16 years old, which resulted in him suffering a C6/7 spinal cord injury. He very quickly transitioned from gymnastics to para-athletics, and within a few short years he was competing in everything …
From Initial Despair, To Embracing The Chair
We have recently been in contact with Helen, a young lady from South Wales, whose life was turned upside down when a rare condition suddenly, and without warning, left her paralysed. She spoke honestly and openly to us about her initial feelings of despair, how she turned these feelings around, and how her positivity (along …
Exercising At Home – A Self-Isolation Guide
We are living in unprecedented times. The entire world is on lockdown. Cinemas, pubs, restaurants, schools, gyms – all closed. And even if they were open, any person with a health related disability is being told to quarantine themselves at home for at least 12 weeks in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19. …
COVID 19 – We Remain Open For Business
As a Company we are, of course, concerned about recent updates regarding COVID 19. A high proportion of our team and our loved ones are in the high risk category and we have a strong duty of care to both our team and our customers – many of whom are also vulnerable. We are responding …
Rehab On A Rower
When Norma suffered a stroke, it affected the entire left side of her body, greatly reducing the strength and mobility in her arm and hand.
A Night of Health, Healing and Joy
Active Hands is proud to support a variety of charities, individuals and events in a number of ways. We understand all too well how a little help, at just the right time, can make the world of difference to someone. So when we were contacted back in May 2017 by Victoria Proctor, we were only …
Shooting For Glory
There are very few examples of athletes who have competed in both the Olympic and Paralympic games. To be precise, or as precise as Wikipedia can be, there have only ever been 15 athletes who have represented their countries in both competitions and none who have done it so many years later. Damien Letulle aims …
