What Diagnoses Qualify for a Wheelchair?
There are a wide variety of diagnoses that qualify a patient for a Complex Rehabilitative power or manual wheelchair. Some of the more common ones include:
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- ALS (AKA Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Cerebral Palsy
- Muscular Dystrophy
- CVA (AKA stroke-related paralysis)
- Post-Polio Syndrome
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- CIPD (AKA Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy)
If you’re unsure if a specific diagnosis qualifies a patient for complex rehab equipment, get in touch with us and we can tell you. For those patients who don’t qualify for "customized" mobility equipment, we have a wide variety of standard power and manual wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds and other home medical equipment products. Conditions that qualify a person for a standard power or manual wheelchair include:
- Arthritis
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Fibromyalgia
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- COPD
- Scoliosis
- And many others
