{"id":3572,"date":"2017-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t1572b125|7"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:05:32","slug":"tip-modified-walker-1572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-modified-walker-1572","title":{"rendered":"Modified walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta1_600.jpg\" alt=\"Modified walker -  saddle seat on wheels connected to walker\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modified walker<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">A custom-designed saddle seat on casters is connected to a walker with forearm support. The saddle seat can be removed. The user can drive the electric wheelchair to the walker and stand up. He receives help driving the wheelchair away and attaching the saddle seat to the walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkom\"><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nThe user and his friend can also help other users who need help converting an idea into reality. Contact him through info@spinalis.se<\/p>\n<p class=\"tilv\"><strong>Made by<\/strong><br \/>\nA friend of the user, Olle H\u00f6gberg, blacksmith and artist<\/p>\n<p class=\"Bekostad\"><strong>Paid for by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"idea\"><strong>Whose idea<\/strong><br \/>\nUser and his wife<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta2_600.jpg\" alt=\"The user drives up to the walker\" width=\"600\" height=\"564\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The user drives up to the walker<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta3_600.jpg\" alt=\"User gets assistance standing up by two people, the wheelchair is moved away, and a third person rolls the saddle seat into position.\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User gets assistance standing up<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta4_600.jpg\" alt=\"The saddle seat is attached to the walker, user gets assistance to sit down\" width=\"386\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The saddle seat is attached to the walker<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta5a_600.jpg\" alt=\"Connection between saddle seat and walker (close-up)\" width=\"600\" height=\"484\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connection between saddle seat and walker<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walker with saddle seat makes it possible to take breaks during gait training \u2013 technique for people with poor balance and impaired gait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":54803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[324],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-about-training-24","tag-authors_v4","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1572_125_sta1_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254244,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/254244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}