Combined shower and toilet chair on castors

A shower chair on castors suitable for wheelchair users with high spinal cord injuries

Description
Shower/toilet chair on casters with soft back and padded seat. Used together with a soft shower cushion.

Model: Aquatec soft, no longer manufactured.
Shower cushion: Soft cushion with oval opening from ETAC

Build instructions
The user fitted the toilet chair with a holder for a phone. The holder is made of a shampoo bottle that was cut and attached to the chair. Holes drilled in the bottom of the shampoo bottle/telephone holder allow water to drain when the chair is used in the shower.

Purchased from
Cushion: Etac, www.etac.com/exp (last checked May 2011)

Paid for by
County Council

Editors comments
Shower chairs currently available that are somewhat equivalent are the Aquatec Ocean, Invacare, www.invacare.com or Mobilette, Mobil Swift or Clean from Etac, www.etac.com (last checked Maj 2011).

Tip is dated from 2006

Categories for this tip
looking after ones health » preventing/healing ulcers, self care » toileting, washing oneself, Tips and tricks from people with High tetraplegia with partly function in arms/hands (C5-6, ASIA A, B).

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