Ride Products Used:

Ride User Since:

2016

Biggest Seating Challenge:

My level of spinal cord injury renders my lower body completely atrophic. Nearly all muscle mass is gone so I am skin and bones. The most problematic areas were over my ischial tuberosities (ITs). When I began veterinary medical school in 2016 I had a pressure sore over my left IT. Ride was able to successfully offload the area, but the wound became infected and led to eventual pelvic MRSA osteomyelitis. I underwent a left-sided hemipelvectomy and femoral disarticulation in 2017, which presented new seating issues.

How Ride Helped:

From Day 1 with Ride and the Aspen teams, I have truly been treated like family. From multiple shape captures, to multiple seating systems, we have finally landed on a successful ASO for my manual chair.

Give us the details:

In 2012 I was involved in a skydiving accident and suffered a T12/L1/Cauda equina spinal cord injury with various other lower body trauma. From the moment I began sitting in a wheelchair I experienced skin breakdown. I was discharged from the original rehab hospital on a low-profile foam cushion and pretty much sat continuously on some form of pressure sore for 4+ years until Ride Designs came into my life and saved me!

Alongside an ASO for my manual chair, Ride also constructed a second ASO for my power chair that allows me to conduct surgery and other tasks I could not perform from my daily chair.

These products have legitimately saved my life. I can happily say that I am pressure sore free and can go about my days not worrying that my only means to move about the world is also hurting me.

I’ve used Ride Designs and Aspen Seating products exclusively since 2016. I will never use another wheelchair seating system.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you Joe, Ryan, Eric, and every other individual who has helped me over the past 7+ years.