WhatShowerChairIsTheBestLighestEasiestToTransportB yAir&DoesVA BuyThem

[RAFS]

Hello My Fellow Veterans : I was wondering if you could recommend a shower chair that that is the best,the lightest & the easiest to transport for travel by air?
Does the VA buy shower chairs for travel for us Veterans? I'm going to the National Veterans Wheelchair Games this July in Denver. This will be my first time flying by air with my PERMOBIL power chair C-500. I'm hoping I will some how be able to hang the shower chair off the back of my chair while going thru the airport. Besides gate checking my power chair will I also be able to gate check the shower chair also if I get one before I go to the games?
Any one else in the group if you something to add by all means please chime in.

Thanks one & all for your help! If anyone is going to the games that reads this please send me an e-mail through this site.

Thanks one & all for your help

Bob S.
Air Force 8/71 to 5/75

[SCI-Nurse]

We issue a lot of Nuprodx shower/commode chairs for veterans who travel. It is not difficult for us to justify this purchase through Prosthetics when it is prescribed by a SCI physician and therapist.

On the other hand, the NVWG will provide you with a loaner piece of equipment that meets your needs through the local VA's Prosthetics department as part of what is provided for Games participants, so you don't have to schlep your equipment with you.

If you plan on doing other travel as well, I would recommend you check about getting equipment for yourself. Your VA SCI Center would be your best bet.

Yes, you can either check your travel commode chair (at no additional cost) or gate check it along with your wheelchairs. It is up to you.


(KLD)

[RAFS]

Originally Posted by SCI-Nurse

We issue a lot of Nuprodx shower/commode chairs for veterans who travel. It is not difficult for us to justify this purchase through Prosthetics when it is prescribed by a SCI physician and therapist.

On the other hand, the NVWG will provide you with a loaner piece of equipment that meets your needs through the local VA's Prosthetics department as part of what is provided for Games participants, so you don't have to schlep your equipment with you.

If you plan on doing other travel as well, I would recommend you check about getting equipment for yourself. Your VA SCI Center would be your best bet.

Yes, you can either check your travel commode chair (at no additional cost) or gate check it along with your wheelchairs. It is up to you.


(KLD)

KLD,
Thanks so much for your prompt reply to my question on the shower chair for travel. I appreciate it very much. I requested a shower chair on my application for the Veterans Wheelchair games. I also need one of my own for travel. I will ask at the SCI Center I go to for my care & will also check out the one you said you issue a lot of at your medical center.

Bob S.
Oldsmar, Fl

[Herco16]

Bob,

If you can transfer, and manage to purchase the Nuprodx 3000tx, you WILL NOT regret it. It is amazing, but you do have to be able to transfer. I can throw mine in a carry-on, along with two-three days of supplies and go! LOVE IT!

Dave

[RAFS]

Dave,
Thanks for your reply. yes I can transfer no problem. I just can't stand for a long time. Did you get yours through the VA? If you did how did you go about getting yours? Did you just ask your doctor to put in a Prosthetics Request for it? Is it easy & light to transport & does it come with it's own bag to transport it in? I have a shower chair that I use here at home but it doesn't come apart at all. I'm going for the 1st time in July to the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Denver. Are you going or have you ever gone to the games since you got hurt? I will need something to use at the hotel in Denver. I put in a request for a shower chair on my games application but since this is my first time I don't know if it guarantees or not that I will be loaned one.

Bob
Fellow Air Force Veteran
8/71 to 5/75

[RAFS]

KDL & Herco16,
Thank you for recommending the Nuprodx 3000tx travel shower chair to me.
I was at the VA today Thursday March 18, 2010 for an appointment & while I was there I went to the SCI PT Section & spoke to one of the therapists. She ordered the shower chair for travel for me that the both of you suggested I get. The therapists said it will be delivered directly to my house so I should have it long before I travel to Denver this coming July for my 1st time attending the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.

Thanks again to the both of you for your help. I'm looking forward to getting this portable shower chair for travel & I'm sure it will last me many years.

RAFS
Bob S.
Oldsmar, Fl
Air Force 8/71 to 5/75

[Herco16]

THAT IS GREAT NEWS, BOB!!

Mine wasn't paid for by the VA, but I might just put in a request for one now! LOL I use mine almost everyday and its held up well. Three years and going strong!! It does come with its own small and discreet carry bag. I get really bad spasms when there's stool in my rectum, so I carry mine with me and use it where ever I can (Stores, hospitals etc) for a quick clean-out.

You will definitely LOVE the 3000tx. There are some other products out there, but nothing like the Nuprodx!

[goldnucs]

I'm glad you found a chair Bob. I missed seeing this thread when you first posted or I would have suggested that you go to www.GoesAnywhere.com and see the line of our Go-Anywhere portable commode/shower chairs that I invented. They are lighter, easier to assemble and half the price of any comparable product available. If you ever have any problems please keep us in mind.

rick

[Herco16]

Originally Posted by goldnucs

I'm glad you found a chair Bob. I missed seeing this thread when you first posted or I would have suggested that you go to www.GoesAnywhere.com and see the line of our Go-Anywhere portable commode/shower chairs that I invented. They are lighter, easier to assemble and half the price of any comparable product available. If you ever have any problems please keep us in mind.

rick

Rolling eyes....... you can't even stay away from one thread, huh? Bob is an intelligent man and surely researched available products.

I'm sure your product has its merit, BUT, watch your own video! Unless you have a companion, your chair is way too large to be transported conveniently by one person. That is completely UNLIKE the Nuprodx. In that video you even showed the user as a helpless para who couldn't transfer and kept trying to push himself into the bath-tub. WTF?!?!

Have a nice day.

Dave

[goldnucs]

Rolling eyes back...lol...gimme a break! How do you know what Bob researched and didn't research?

Insofar as the statements you made regarding the size and operation of our (tub slider) chair, I'm not even going to dignify your attempt to bad-mouth our product with a reply. I'll simply suggest you read a few of the comments made by some of our many satisfied users at https://www.goesanywhere.com/testimo...mode-chair.htm. The proof, as they say, is "in the pudding".

You have a nice day as well Dave.

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