A mixture of Active Hands aids - one standard aid and one looped aid, are being used by a C5 quadraplegic with fruit-picking equipment to pick pears in the garden.
Just one of the many activities made possible by Active Hands Gripping Aids.
Short videos of each of the finalists for the UK Disabled Entrepreneur Awards 2011, sponsored by the Stelios Foundation (owner of easyJet) and disability charity Leonard Cheshire.
Includes eventual join winners The Active Hands Company (Rob Smith, designer and director, and Mel Burley, director) and Huw Thomas from Promove UK.
Used with permission.
C5 quad using active hands looped gripping aid to do excercises which would be impossible without gripping aids due to lack of hand function. Other types of gripping aids also available - search "gripping aids".
activehands. co. uk
