Picking things up from the floor with a towel

A towel can serve as an assistive device for persons with impaired hand function to pick up objects from the floor.

The milk carton is on the floor next to the user's wheelchair wheel and she places a towel next to it.

The milk carton is on the floor next to the user’s wheelchair wheel and she places a towel next to it.

A towel can be used to pick up large heavy objects from the floor.

Technique: Susanne places the towel on the floor, braces the object against the wheels of the wheelchair and places the towel under the object. She wraps the object in the towel, grasps both ends of the towel, pinches them together and picks up the object.

Users comments
Hand surgery enabled Susanne to achieve a strong key grip in one hand. She is incapable of a performing a volar grip.

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Susanne Berg

The user leans the milk carton against the wheel and positions the towel underneath it.

The user leans the milk carton against the wheel and positions the towel underneath it.

She grasps the towel.

She grasps the towel.

She holds both ends together and lifts the towel with the milk carton.

She holds both ends together and lifts the towel with the milk carton.

Author: Susanne

Susanne bor i lägenhet och studerar och arbetar som frilans (heltid). Hon skadade sig 1982 och har en hög ryggmärgskada (C5). Genom handkirurgi fick hon ett pinchgrepp i vä hand. Hon har personlig assistans genom LASS. Efter tipsinsamlingen har hon flyttat till en ny lägenhet.

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