Accessible sauna

Sauna increases well-being of person with quadriplegia

Description
Sauna with wide door makes it possible to enter with wheelchair. There is a wall-mounted shower chair outside. The sauna bench height is designed to facilitate transfers from the wheelchair.

Authors comments
A sauna is good for a person with quadriplegia; it reduces spasticity and the person can stay warm. It is difficult to enter since it is crowded outside the sauna. The user plans to build a new sauna.

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Tip is dated from 2005

Categories for this tip
housing » sauna, looking after ones health » keeping warm/ keeping cool, Tips and tricks from people with Low tetraplegia with partly function in arms/hands (C7- Th1, ASIA A, B).

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