By Denise Watson We may say that someone is deaf but hearing loss cannot be put so neatly into a box, as one person with hearing loss is different to the next. One person may find that voices are quiet and that he or she can’t quite grasp what is being said, while another might [...]
By Steff Regular exercise – no matter your disability – will improve your overall fitness, help you control your weight, keep you healthy, decrease your chances of getting sick, and instantly improve your mood. Exercising in a wheelchair might seem like a dream, but there are plenty of low impact exercises you can perform while [...]
By Steff One of the unfortunate results of being a fit and active person is that sometimes, you injure yourself. And if you have a disability, those injuries might not heal so quickly, or they could cause you significant discomfort. Luckily, the Disabled Shop stock several unique products to help you manage and eliminate pain [...]
By Denise Watson Have you noticed that technology is constantly changing the product as we know it, adding more whizzes and bangs and making physical participation in life less and less? Let’s look no further than that simple black and white television of yesteryear which, dare I say, came into my family’s life as a [...]
By Denise Watson When we hear that someone is disabled, we automatically think that he or she has a health problem, is in a wheelchair, or cannot look after themselves. Yet ‘disabled’ simply means unable to do something because of one reason or another. Let’s take the example of someone with restricted growth: a man [...]
By Steff Green There’s nothing lovelier than the smell of fresh bread baking in the oven. All over the world, humans have been baking bread for over 10 000 years, and whether your bread of choice is a lovely French baguette or some tasty Indian Na’an, bread is an important part of most of our [...]
By Steff Green I don’t know about you, but I love entertaining friends for dinner. At least once a month, one person in our close-knit group of friends will host the others around for dinner, and I always look forward to these evenings of food, wine and fun. But for people with certain types of [...]
Whether it’s loss of limb or loss of use, quality of life is affected. Impaired use can come about in so many ways and getting to grips with lifestyle changes won’t happen overnight. Okay, you have lost the use of your left arm and hand. This isn’t your dominant hand but think about when you [...]
By Denise Life isn’t so easy when you have some fingers missing and the difficulty isn’t easy to describe either, because it depends on which fingers you don’t have. Take for instance that one of your thumbs is missing. Grip is now seriously affected, because it’s that wrapping your fingers around something that makes for [...]
By Denise When we hear words like arthritis and rheumatism, most of us know that they indicate pain but may know no more than that. To try to add a little more depth to those two words, arthritis means inflammation of the joints and rheumatism means pain in the joints, muscles and bones. It was [...]
