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[Cripple Concepts]

I'm an engineer who has recently started my own company after getting laid off from the NASCAR team I worked for. I plan to do both general engineering consulting as well as creating unique and custom equipment for people with disabilities and need your input on what products are needed most.

After 12 years of being paralyzed and frustrated waiting for others to create the solutions I needed to improve my mobility and ADL’s, I decided it was time I tackle it myself. Recently Mark wrote an article about inventors coming out with devices that wow the media but either don't meet the actual needs of people disabilities or are priced out of everyone's budget, and I have felt this is too often the case myself. I don’t need a wheelchair that climbs stairs, I need a foot rest that doesn’t break when I go up a curb cut! I believe in simple solutions for individual issues, for the most part wheelchair technology is good, some of us just need to make a few tweaks to make it fit our needs better.

I put together a brief survey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F3GRST7, and would appreciate it if you could take the time to answer the 10 questions so I can better plan my company’s priorities. Like most entrepreneurs I'm trying to get funding for additional equipment and software and need some market opinion to justify it. I would appreciate any additional comments or ideas any of you have as well, and will make it a point to be more active on these message boards in the future.

Thanks,
Josh
http://www.crippleconcepts.com

[Doc]

I took your survey. Good luck with your venture. I too have had to fabricate most of my adaptive equipment. I often wondered where I would be if I wasnt a fabricator by trade.


Doc
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[Craig'sAunt]

Cripple Concepts, on 25 October 2010 - 06:52 PM, said:

I'm an engineer who has recently started my own company after getting laid off from the NASCAR team I worked for. I plan to do both general engineering consulting as well as creating unique and custom equipment for people with disabilities and need your input on what products are needed most.

After 12 years of being paralyzed and frustrated waiting for others to create the solutions I needed to improve my mobility and ADL’s, I decided it was time I tackle it myself. Recently Mark wrote an article about inventors coming out with devices that wow the media but either don't meet the actual needs of people disabilities or are priced out of everyone's budget, and I have felt this is too often the case myself. I don’t need a wheelchair that climbs stairs, I need a foot rest that doesn’t break when I go up a curb cut! I believe in simple solutions for individual issues, for the most part wheelchair technology is good, some of us just need to make a few tweaks to make it fit our needs better.

I put together a brief survey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F3GRST7, and would appreciate it if you could take the time to answer the 10 questions so I can better plan my company’s priorities. Like most entrepreneurs I'm trying to get funding for additional equipment and software and need some market opinion to justify it. I would appreciate any additional comments or ideas any of you have as well, and will make it a point to be more active on these message boards in the future.

Thanks,
Josh
http://www.crippleconcepts.com

Hi Josh,
I am the aunt of a 20 year old quadraplegic. He's only been home from the hospital for a few months and we're all still struggling to find everything and make adjustments to things that don't quite fit. I will take your survey and ask that my nephew do the same. Good luck on your company. I think it's a brillant idea.

Thanks,
Craig's Aunt

[Edinburgh Colin]

Done, Good Luck, guys like you need to succeed so we can get a bit of variety in the supply chain and more useful products that are not necessarily main stream but still necessary for a few or more people.

I wish you all the best and would love you you to post details of ideas or developments you are working on.

[mellowgator]

i wish you would come a up with a chair like the tail wind. since they are no longer making a power assist chair. years ago i had an i-glide and johnson an johnson quit making them. the designers of the chair went on to make the tail wind and now they are dealing with copy right issues. this stinks because this was the best chair out there for quads like me.



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