Canoeing for the Disabled: Chair Padding

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Now that we know how to set up the adaptive chair in our canoes, I want to talk about how to make the chair a little bit more comfortable if, say if you're taking somebody with a spinal cord canoeing. A lot of times, people with spinal cord injuries have various skin issues that they have to be mindful of, such as skin breakdown due to poor blood circulations from a spinal cord injury. People can get bedsores very easily, and we want to prevent that when we're out going canoeing, so one of the ways we prevent that is by getting various paddings for them to sit on. This is just an old what's called Roho seat. A lot of times, people with wheelchairs will already have this on their chairs. Usually, it's covered in like a canvas material, but this one has been removed, and so it's waterproof. We'll set that down for the seating. Another way to sort of cushion it is just take some old foam. This is actually pieces of old foam from an old life jacket, and there's various ways you could put it onto the adaptive chair. You can slide it in the back here, you can put some on the side. One way I like to assess where the padding should go is just by looking at somebody's wheelchair, you can sort of assess how much padding they need. But my friend Brieland here will sort of get in here and demonstrate how the cushioning helps, as well as now with this adaptive chair he has a little bit more back support and side support too, if he was actually out on the water; canoeing in this adaptive chair. He has a little bit more side support and back support, and it's probably pretty comfortable too, compared to just the regular old patio chair.

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