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Date: | Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:06:29 -0400 |
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Actually, I do know something about this!
We are waiting for Anthony's first chair (due any day now). It is not a power chair (he still hasn't mastered the controls well enough for his OT to grant him a "power" license yet, lol). But we researched all our different options for the frame and the seating insert. Only one company has actually done crash tests on their system ASFAIK - the Jay Company. This is the one we opted to go with. We ordered a Quickie frame.
It doesn't mean the other systems out there are necessarily unsafe - just never been tested. Now that one company HAS tested their product, the others will be scrambling to cover their a**es for liability purposes, I suspect, until they can be tested.
What astounds me is not that Invacare is recommending you not be transported in their chairs but that no one has made crash testing a requirement til now.
Yvonne
Mommy to Anthony, age 4
>>> [log in to unmask] 07/15/01 12:49PM >>>
Hey, did any of you know this???
Mag
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