Regarding lateral support... how many seatbelts are you using? . I have two seatbelts. One is a standard seatbelt down around my waist. The second is a large padded seatbelt up around my chest, which helps my lateral supports keep me vertically in the chair. I can e-mail you a picture if you want.
Re: shoulder pain... I had lots of trouble with shoulder pain, but it is getting better now that my armrests have been raised to better support my arms. Regarding a custom back: I do not like the back of my chair, since it pushes my shoulders forward. I have the aides fold a towel to place behind my spine, and it helps. -----Original Message----- From: greg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] Seating Options I'm in an Invacare TDX5 and am having lots of issues with back / shoulder pains. Anyone have any good advise of chair backs and lateral supports? One issue is the lateral supports to hold my ribs straight, my spine is curving now. So my right side has to push my ribs in and the left side has to keep the right side from pushing me over. Though having those pads on my sides irritates the inside of my arms by getting in the way, but if too small they don't work well. I use a Roho cushion and it helps my butt, but it's not real stable and after 1 recline I trend to move just a bit to my left. That screws up my lateral supports from working correctly. This chair has no real frame area to attach any pad supports to keep my hips from sliding over. I've seen almost u shaped custom backs that are molded to your back. That sounds good, but I'd hate to go there then not like it and it's not like you can try it first. Anyone try one of those? I'd need it to come almost all the way around the sides, but not bother my arms when moving them around. Thanks, Greg
