Arthritis is a known medical condition that causes pain and swelling in the body joints. The condition is estimated to affect 580,000 sufferers in England and Wales and occurs more often in women than men. It is most common between the ages of 40 and 70, but it can affect people of any age.
Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms can be very painful, making it difficult to move around and do everyday simple tasks. When symptoms become worse! Flare-up the condition can make it near impossible for stair climbing.
The chances of serious falls or accidents are greater when the flare up condition strikes causing limited mobility and confining the sufferer to down stairs access only of their home.
Painful symptoms endured climbing the stairs can be dramatically reduced with the aid of a chairlift. The chairlift will effortlessly transport the user up and down the stairs making ascending and descending the stairwell a lot faster and more importantly a lot safer.
In addition to the elimination of painful or near impossible stair-climbing, stairlift owners (and their families) no longer live with the usual fears - an accidental and tragic fall could happen at any time.
Other advantages include utilizing the chairlift to effortlessly transport groceries, laundry, or even pets up and down the steep stairs.
Modern stair lifts now have additional features! Powered folding footplates. This removes the user from having to bend down to fold the footplate for correct operation.
Additional powered seat swivel mechanism allowing the chairlift seat to swivel rotate to face the landing making for an easier and safer dismount and re-mount of the chairlift.
Other great features and options with modern stair lifts they are now battery powered ensuring the stair lift will still operate in the event of a power-cut outage.
There are three ways to acquire a stair lift! Buy a brand new product from one of the main suppliers.
Buy a reconditioned stair lift from one of the many independent suppliers. This can reduce the start up costs and help find a bargain price stairlift that might have been out of your price range.
Rent a stairlift this is the fast and easy way to acquire a chairlift and the start up costs is minimal with the advantage of an exclusive package no breakdown or service fees to worry about.
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