If you would like some more information regarding our products, and where they come from, or you would like to learn more about spinal cord injuries and problems, for which we provide support, then please see the links below.
Prime Engineering are the manufacturers of our standing frames. They are based in the USA and we are proud to be continuing to work with them as a sole UK supplier of their frames with a view to adding more products to our range from Prime Engineering in the future to continue to support the needs of our clients and users.
From Prime Engineering - "Since 1984, our primary motivation has been proper, safe standing for people with physical and/or aging related disabilities. Through the years, Prime Engineering has steadily grown as the innovative designer of Standing Systems by listening to clients, parents and healthcare professionals, while staying altruistic to our goal, "Standing you the way nature intended" Standing is important, but standing correctly is crucial. To realize the full benefit of a standing program you must stand correctly. Others have tried, but no one matches our quality and commitment to proper standing and positioning. Standing is an Art - try one of our products and feel the difference that standing correctly can make in your life!"
The Spinal Cord Association (or SIA for short) are a national UK organisation supporting those affected by, and those working with spinal cord injuries as well as providing training and guidance. Their website has a wealth of information regarding spinal cord injuries.
MASCIP (Multidisciplinary Association of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals) is a national professional forum to promote standards in clinical practice, foster research and encourage the development of health and social care services for people with spinal cord injuries.
From their website - MASCIP exists to enable all professions and grades of staff associated with the care and welfare of people with Spinal Cord injuries, both within and outside of Spinal Cord Injury Centres, to articulate professional issues and concerns. On behalf of its membership, MASCIP will also lobby service commissioners, healthcare providers and the Department of Health on issues of significant professional concern
Aspire are charitable organisation supporting people with spinal injury. Through its projects and programmes, Aspire offers practical support to the 40,000 people living with a spinal cord injury in the UK so that they can lead fulfilled and independent lives in their homes, with their families, in work places and in leisure time.
From their website - "Aspire’s services provide the practical support that can be needed by those who sustain spinal cord injuries.
The services we offer cover a range of areas and are available to new patients in the NHS Spinal Cord Injury Centres, to those who have just been discharged from hospital and to people who have been living with their injury for years. But whilst they are different in what they do, they all have the same goal – to help take someone from injury to independence."
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