What product makes the most difference to your life?
We’ve discussed your frustrations, now it’s time for some solutions. We asked you about your favourite assistive products.
What do you find most frustrating due to your lack of hand function?
We asked our customers what they find most frustrating due to their lack of hand function – and then we looked for solutions.
Crafting Christmas With Active Hands
The Christmas preparation can be a bit overwhelming when you are a quad with reduced hand function – here are some tips to help!
The Wonky Artist
We were recently contacted by 10 year old Amélie who excitedly told us what great progress her mum, Rachel, had been making with some of our products. We chatted back and forth with Rachel, and discovered that she’d been on quite the journey since her injury; a journey that has seen her become a wife, …
Lockdown & Beyond With The Active Hands Crew
Although some parts of the UK are stuck doing the lockdown hokey cokey, the vast majority of us are now officially out and trying our best to resume our lives under the new social distancing guidelines. It will be impossible to forget however, the months we all spent under virtual house arrest, with the overall experience …
Co-Existing With Covid
The New Norm…? In my previous blog entry from April, which feels like a solid decade ago at this point, I confidently mused that by the time I got round to writing my next entry, all this Coronavirus nonsense would be “firmly in the rearview mirror”… …oh to be young and naive again! Yes, I now find …
A Promise to Fight – Stéphane’s story
“This is where Active Hands changed my life. The whole body can be worked confidently: the pectorals, arms, shoulders, back… I have access to machines safely. I can use dumbells, do pull-ups, the cable machine… and I know that I have other possibilities too.” 55 year old Stéphane lives in a small town in the …
A day in the life of a quad/tetra in lockdown
Eight weeks into lockdown here in the UK and life seems to be settling into a bit of a routine. In some ways, I have been trying to recreate things I’d normally be doing in the outside world using new technology… work, training, catching up with friends. At other times, I’ve been discovering the benefits of slowing down, staying …
Life In The Time Of Corona
It seems positively ironic that in my previous entry I’d spoken about how uncomfortable I felt accepting help off strangers, and now it’s illegal to be within 2 metres of any of them… The moral of the story is be careful what you wish for!!
Looking After Your Mental Health in an Isolated World
We won’t pretend to be mental health experts, but we do have minds of our own and we’re feeling the pressure of the current situation too. We hope that the ideas in this article might go some way to helping you through this bizarre time. If you have any tips we’d love to hear them …
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