Accessible sauna

Sauna increases well-being of person with quadriplegia

Accessible sauna

Accessible sauna

Sauna with wide door makes it possible to enter with wheelchair. There is a wall-mounted shower chair outside. The sauna bench height is designed to facilitate transfers from the wheelchair.

Users comments
A sauna is good for a person with quadriplegia; it reduces spasticity and the person can stay warm. It is difficult to enter since it is crowded outside the sauna. The user plans to build a new sauna.

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Author: Claes

Claes bor ihop med fru och son i en lägenhet. Han arbetar heltid. Han skadade sig 1984 och har en låg tetraplegi. Han har ingen assistans.
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Type of disability

Low tetraplegia with partial function in arms/hands (C7-Th1)

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