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Everything we do is inspired by our customers, and in turn we’re proud to share our latest creations with you. Check this page for our new products, new innovations and other insight into what we’re doing to improve lives. The information in the blog is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be medical, billing, or legal advice.

Enhancing Air Travel Accessibility: Proposed Changes

Drive wheel configuration: Specific techniques to optimize driving

The Importance of Shear Reduction in Wheelchair Supports

Fuel your practice with Permobil resources

Shear reduction: An important element in pressure injury prevention

Permobil Portrait: Guy and Roy Henningsson

Manual wheelchair materials: aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber

Drive wheel configuration: Rear wheel drive

Treat my wheelchair like you would treat me!

Permobil Portrait: Chanda Hagen

Empowering access through education

Process to obtain new mobility equipment: fitting, delivery, maintenance, repairs, & follow up

Innovating for manual wheelchairs: CR1 unique features

Top 5 Blog Posts of 2023

Drive wheel configuration: Mid wheel drive

Permobil presents the 2023 CPF accessible holiday gift guide

Process to obtain new mobility equipment: funding

Permobil Portrait: Ashley Davis

Taking a closer look at H.R. 5371 - Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2023

Top 10 tips for wound care and pressure injury management

Process to obtain new mobility equipment: Your team

Drive wheel configuration: Front wheel drive

Permobil Portrait: Bobby Brown

Process to obtain new mobility equipment: A little preparation goes a long way

Happy 50th Birthday to ROHO®!

Manual wheelchair frame materials: Carbon Fiber

Permobil Portrait: Doug Garven

History of ROHO®

Clinicians' tips for back to school in a wheelchair

How to make a custom wheelchair cushion: ROHO®

The Permobil F5 Corpus VS power wheelchair transforms into a LEGO Ideas concept

Permobil Portrait: Mildred Trejo

Advocacy matters with Ali Ingersoll

Navigating school with a wheelchair: a parent's perspective

How to clean and disinfect a ROHO® cushion and cover

Permobil Portrait: Ken Winward

The custom wheelchair seating relationship: it sounds complicated

Permobil Portrait: Landon Rickley

Simplifying the standing wheelchair process: delivery

Simplifying the standing wheelchair process: evaluation

Permobil Portrait: Anton Danielsson, Lead Engineer – Chassis Development

How do I get power standing paid for?

ISO Standards: Horizontal Force & Shear Test Method

ISO Standards: Immersion Test Method

Permobil Portrait: Caroline Pennell part 2

ISO Standards: Pressure Mapping Test Method

Permobil Portrait: Caroline Pennell

The Relationship Between Standards & Clinical Practice

Benefits and Limitations of ISO and RESNA Standards

Overview of ISO and RESNA Standards for Wheelchair Seating

Introducing the Wheelchair Nerds podcast

Permobil Portrait: Kara Kopplin, Director of Regulatory Science

Permobil Portrait: Corey “Pheez” Lee Part 3

Permobil Portrait: Corey “Pheez” Lee Part 2

Permobil Portrait: Corey “Pheez” Lee

Taking a closer look at wheelchair cushion and back support covers

Solid seat insert for wheelchair: taking a closer look at cushion components

Permobil Portrait: Ashley Detterbeck, DPT, ATP/SMS

Top Instagram posts of 2022

Top 5 Blog Posts of 2022

The Faces of SmartDrive: Nicole

ActiveHeight™: Your world within reach

ActiveReach™: Find your perfect position

A consumer's perspective on client-centered wheelchair evaluation

The importance of a client-centered wheelchair evaluation

How do I prepare for getting a new power wheelchair?

How Caroline found her perfect fit with the Inception Cushion

You are unique – your wheelchair cushion can be too!

Pressure mapping seating system: Locating areas of concern for clients with impaired sensation and/or communication

Practical tips for performing an occupational therapy seating assessment in a home setting

Pressure mapping seating system: a beneficial tool for biofeedback

Rise to the Occasion: Advocating for Power Wheelchairs with Elevating Seat

An introduction to performing an occupational therapy seating assessment in a home setting

My Journey with SmartDrive: A Reflection on Innovation

Pressure mapping seating system: collecting objective data to support appropriate interventions

How do I prepare for getting a new manual wheelchair?

Pressure mapping: a method to investigate persistent pressure injuries

Proportional vs. Switched Drive Controls

Pressure mapping systems: an undervalued and underutilized assessment tool

When should I consider an alternative drive control?

How do I prepare for getting a power assist device?

What is an alternative drive control?

Vicair® Vector O2: Adjustable Skin Protection & Positioning Cushion

How do I prepare for getting new seating system equipment?

Vicair® Adjuster O2: Adjustable Skin Protection Cushion

Vicair® Active O2: Adjustable Skin Protection & Positioning Cushion

Vicair®: Premium Skin Protection Cushions

A conversation with Andrea Dalzell: being a self-advocate

A conversation with Andrea Dalzell: ultra lightweight wheelchairs

The Wheelchair Handbook: A consumer’s guide to seating & mobility equipment

Why it's important to consider power standing

Power your push, your way with power assist!

Your common funding questions, answered!

Is my wheelchair still working for me?

How standing in your wheelchair can change your world

Manual wheelchairs: rigid and folding frames. How do you choose?

A parent's perspective: Clive and the Explorer Mini Part 2

A parent's perspective: Clive and the Explorer Mini Part 1

Top Ten Blog Posts of 2021 Part 2

Top Ten Blog Posts of 2021 Part 1

What does the color of your wheelchair say about you?

Defining Success in the Explorer Mini: Part 2

Defining Success in the Explorer Mini: Part 1

Susanna and the Explorer Mini

Explorer Mini recognized as a TIME Best Invention for 2021

Clinical Application for Vicair Cushions

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Power Mobility Devices

Problems with sliding out of the wheelchair

The wedge misconception

Taking a Closer Look at Wheelchair Accessories

Choosing a back support: adjustability

Choosing a Back Support: Medium

Types of Power Assist Devices

Non-Flowing Air: Vicair Cushions

Manual Wheelchair Propulsion Patterns and Efficiency

RN Huddle Podcast: Wheelchair Wounds Part 2

Flowing Air: ROHO Cushions

K0005 Configuration: Caster Options

RN Huddle Podcast: Wheelchair Wounds Part 1

K0005 Configuration: Rear wheel options and rear wheel camber

K0005 Configuration: Axle Positioning

Brenda’s experience with the MyPermobil app

K0005 Configuration: Frame Depth, Seat Back Height, and Seat-to-Back Angle

MyPermobil: Voice Assistant

MyPermobil: Seating

Choosing between minimally adjustable and performance rigid manual wheelchairs

MyPermobil: Battery, Mileage, and the Integrated Map

Are all foam wheelchair cushions the same?

Cushion geometry: why are contours important?

How does the Connect-enabled wheelchair transmit data?

MyPermobil, Fleet Management, and the Connect-ready Wheelchair

Skin protection through methods of pressure distribution

Attributes of Great Seating: Stability

K0005 Configuration: Footrest Width and Seat Sling Depth

Easily find the right cushion with new solutions-based selection tool

Voice Assistant lets even more users benefit from MyPermobil app

K0005 Configuration: Seat Width and Front Seat Width

Wheelchair Frame Progression

Attributes of Great Seating: Positioning

Attributes of Great Seating: Skin & Soft Tissue Protection

K0005 Configuration: Foot support-to-seat length and Front frame angle

Permobil and the VA: Service and Commitment

Choosing a Back Support: Shape of the Shell

K0005 Configuration: Seat Slope and Ergo Seat

Permobil and the VA: It's Personal

Benefits & Considerations of Cushion Mediums

K0005 Configuration: Seat-to-Floor Height (STFH)

Contoured Cushion Components

Permobil + LUCI: Mission Driven Innovation

Tips for justifying a K0005 ultra lightweight manual wheelchair

Alternative Drive Controls: Single Switch Scanning and Eye Gaze

Abilities Virtual Interview with Chuck Witkowski & Paul Amadeus Lane

Cushion Geometry: Linear and Contoured

Taking a closer look at the K0005 ultra lightweight manual wheelchair

Alternative Drive Controls: Head Array, Sip & Puff, and Switch Arrays & Multiple-Switch Control

Methods of Pressure Redistribution: Immersion and Envelopment

A User’s Balanced Ride Story: Titanium Vs. Aluminum Manual Wheelchairs

Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT), Long-Term Use Manual Wheelchairs

Permobil and LUCI partner to provide smart power wheelchair technology to veterans in the United States

Common Funding Questions about Power Wheelchairs

Methods of Pressure Redistribution: Offloading/Partial Offloading

Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020

Power Wheelchair Basics: Torque & Tracking Technology

A Year in Review: Permobil Webinar Series 2020

Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Short-Term Use Manual Wheelchairs

Power Wheelchair Basics: Suspension

Power Seat Function Combinations

Cushion Considerations: Providing the Required Postural Support

Manual wheelchair frame materials: Titanium

Cushion Considerations: Cushion Medium

Explaining Power Seat Functions: Power Standing

Manual wheelchair frame materials: 6000 & 7000 series aluminum

Cushion Considerations: Methods of Pressure Redistribution

Permobil’s new ROHO® Hybrid Select cushion breaks boundaries as an all-in-one seating solution

The Material Science Involved in Finding a Balanced Ride: Frame materials

Explaining Power Seat Functions: Power Elevating & Articulating Lower Leg Support and Power Seat Elevation

Explaining Power Seat Functions: Power Tilt & Power Recline

Wheelchair Drive Wheel Placement and Indoor Maneuverability

TiLite: How to find a Balanced Ride

What is the difference between Front Wheel Drive, Mid Wheel Drive, and Rear Wheel Drive wheelchairs?

Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) Power Mobility Devices

What is Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) equipment?

What is Durable Medical Equipment (DME)?

Smart Actuators: what are they and what do they do?

Lessons learned in our many years of developing Standing Power Wheelchairs

Maintaining Your Ride: Wheelchair Maintenance & Cleaning FAQs

Maintaining Your Ride: Manual Wheelchair Maintenance

Maintaining Your Ride: Power Wheelchair Maintenance

Maintaining Your Ride: Wheelchair Cleaning & Disinfecting

Maintaining Your Ride: Cushion Care & Maintenance

Permobil Appoints Ginger Walls to Director of Clinical Sales and Education

A SmartDrive Interview with Brandon Oney

A Parent's Perspective on the Explorer Mini: Promoting Development

A Parent's Perspective on the Explorer Mini: Promoting Exploration

A Parent's Perspective on the Explorer Mini: An Introduction

Common Concerns About Early Power Mobility Devices

Understanding Cushion Properties with the Help of ANSI/RESNA & ISO Standards Conclusion

Functional Elements of the Explorer Mini's Saddle Seat

ISO Standards: Stability Test Method

Cost-Effective Mattress Solutions to Manage COVID-19 Infection Control

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