1. Slippers for Your Wheelchair

Love or hate winter, we will all agree that wheelchair tires and chilly, moist climate don’t combine. Cease worrying about monitoring mud and particles indoors and make the season a little bit simpler by getting a pair of “wheelchair slippers” from RehaDesigns. Positive, they appear a little bit foolish, however they’re supereasy to slide on and can considerably cut back your tire-wiping and floor-cleaning time over the winter. Apart from, you’re at house — who cares in case your wheelchair is sporting pajamas?

Out there for $54.99 from Residing Spinal. They arrive in 22-inch and 24-inch sizes, although 24’s simply stretch to suit 25-inch wheels.

2. Quick Tires, For Much less

A high quality, light-weight tire could make your handbook wheelchair a complete lot simpler to push. However who needs to pay $155 for a pair of Schwalbe Ones solely to have them put on out simply as quick as every other tire? The brand new MBL Speedlite tires tick all of the “quick wheelchair tire” containers: light-weight, low profile and excessive strain. Plus, they’ve a minimalist tread sample that’s surprisingly grippy whereas sustaining a low rolling resistance.

They usually retail for $47 per tire, however proper now DME Hub has them on sale for $27.50. It’s an important deal on a high quality tire — get them when you can.

3. Restricted Grip Gaming Controller

PlayStation introduced its first adaptive controller again in February and it’s lastly hitting the market simply in time for the vacations. The brand new controller consists of a pair of round gamepads with buttons across the perimeter and an analog stick that may be adjusted to be nearer or farther from the gamepad. To create a system that fits your wants, it may be mixed with different PlayStation controllers, and options 3.5-millimeter ports so you may add third-party buttons and switches for those who want. Now we simply want a Tony Hawk-style WCMX sport.

Out there beginning Dec. 6 for $89.99 from the PlayStation retailer, and contains alternate joystick and button caps so you may work out what works finest for you.

4. A Rain Jacket for Your Legs

Sure, it is a factor, and it’s wonderful. In case you’re a wheelchair consumer who lives in a wet a part of the nation, you’re most likely used to the tops of your pants getting soaking moist, as a result of the poncho look isn’t for everybody and who needs to wrestle rain pants on and off? The Raindek from Netherlands-based Kinetic Steadiness is a water-resistant garment that secures round your waist and underneath your knees, to snuggly cowl your knees and thighs. It’s easy to placed on, received’t get caught in your wheels, and shops in its personal small bag.

Out there for $69 from Twisted Backbone. Additionally out there in a full leg model for $89.

5. Transportable Electrical Air Pump

That is the current your dad and mom need to offer you. Airmoto’s electrical tire pump is tiny and far lighter than the outdated Campbell Hausfeld moveable air pumps. It comes with a USB charger and can inflate as much as 120 kilos per sq. inch, making it helpful for on a regular basis wheels and most high-pressure sport or handcycle tires. Plus, it has a sufficiently big battery to deal with automobile tires.

Out there for $79 straight from Airmoto.

6. Heated Vest

Add moderately priced heated outerwear to the lengthy record of issues made potential by low cost, highly effective lithium batteries. In case you’re chilly on a regular basis throughout winter, go along with a heated vest. It’ll preserve your core heat, and also you received’t have to switch the entire thing while you blow out the sleeves rolling round outdoors. There are numerous choices on Amazon, however TideWe’s Light-weight Heated Vest scored effectively on Journey + Leisure journal’s overview, and has a water resistant shell and slim minimize that shouldn’t rub in your wheels.

Girls’s vest retails for $89 and males’s retails for $99.

7. Simple-Pour Electrical Kettle

There are few higher methods to cozy up from the within out than sitting in entrance of a fireplace, or house heater, having fun with a cup of sizzling tea. Electrical kettles make the water-boiling a part of tea-making faster and safer than coping with a pot on the range. However pouring can nonetheless be tough for anybody with restricted stability or weak arm/hand power. Enter the Uccello Simple-Pour Kettle, which has a mechanism within the base that permits you to pour by tipping the kettle as a substitute of getting to elevate it. The kettle is British — in fact — so that you’ll want a plug adapter, however the U.Ok.-based distributor will ship it worldwide.

Out there for $84.95 from Energetic Arms.