Ingenious Ideas: Theraputty

The Theraputty Range

Theraputty is a great product, a great gift idea and a great tool for rehabilitation, maintaining grip and and flexibility. In a range of colours, strengths and tub sizes, you can find the Theraputty that you like best and use it to improve and work on your fine motor skills.

Theraputty is a fun and practical way of strengthening your hand and wrist dexterity and working on your grip. It can be used to develop and improve your fine and gross motor control skills and is brilliant for exercising your hands, fingers and forearm exercises. It can be used in general physio sessions and is also recommended for anybody who has suffered an injury or is recovering from surgery. It comes in a range of colours and four strength levels and as you work on your strength, you can move up to the next level of putty.

Customers are really surprised and happy with the results of using their Theraputty. One customer received NHS advice to get some to support their child with their fine motor skills and saw marked improvement within weeks and there are many comments describing Theraputty as fun as well as challenging which makes therapy sessions much less of a bore. You can work with your Theraputty wherever you are so you can enjoy your favourite TV but work out your fingers and wrists at the same time. Don’t use it for putting in your windows though, it’s not that kind of putty. 😉

This video shows an occupational therapy team demonstrating some great exercises using Theraputty:

Theraputty is a fun theraputic putty to improve dexterity and strength in hands and arms. Recommended by occupational therapist and physiotherapists. If you’re interested in buying some Theraputty for yourself or finding out more, click on the box below:

Update with some comments from our Tumblr Blog

I like the black theraputty because it’s SUPER stiff and takes a really long time to heat up and get “gooey” like silly putty does. So basically, if you don’t need much resistance then silly putty works. I need lots of resistance so it doesn’t work as well.

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WOW! Have to try this for my arthritic hands—thanks so much for the link! 🙂

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Something Different: Unique Blue Badge Holders

Every now and again we come across a product which we really rate for its individuality. These blue badge holders are one such

Multi Terrain Camo patterned Blue Badge Holder

product. We first saw the new Blue Badge Company exhibiting at Naidex South 2011, and we were really impressed by the quality, range and bright colours available.

The Blue Badge Company

The Blue Badge Company was launched in 2010 by designer Camilla Hall, who didn’t like the ordinary, plain and awkward-to-use Blue badge wallets that were available.

She wanted to create something that reflected the user’s individual style, that they would be comfortable using every day.

Creating a new format she found specially tested acetate windows that allow the Badge and timer permit to be displayed clearly & legally.

Finally, here is a product which allows for a bit of style and funkiness to jazz up a blue badge!

The exotic Fire Cracker Blue Badge Holder design

These blue badge holders and parking display wallets come in a wide range of patterns and styles. Produced by the Blue Badge Company, you can be assured of their quality and they’re much more stylish than the traditional blue badge holders or disability parking badge wallets that we have seen available. Made in Britain, in fact, hand made in a workshop in Bristol, they use fully UK sourced materials. These wallets are designed to provide Blue Badge holders with an practical but stylish item which can express their own individuality instead of looking clinical and boring. There are a massive EIGHTY designs to choose from and from seeing the range on their impressive show stand, we think almost every taste is covered, from Pink PVC to suede! They make an absolutely awesome gift for a friend or relative who uses a Blue Badge.

Fabrics range from the girly Cath Kidston inspired Cathy to the more traditional Westwood and many more besides. You can get almost any design you can think of from the very popular purple Chinese silk to Army camouflage and anyone who has a disabled badge will be happy with their new product.

If you’re interested in buying one of these great Blue Badge Holders, click here to view the leather and patterned fabric ranges available from the Disability Horizons store.

High-Tech Helpers: The Breville Hot Cup

There are a huge range of techy products which have been developed to make life easier for people from all walks of life, not necessarily with those with disabilities in mind. The Breville Hot Cup is one of these great innovations.

The Breville Hot Cup is an ingenious invention which allows you to boil and dispense hot water with the touch of a button. It is a one touch kettle that you fill with water and it dispenses hot water one cup at a time. This means you can wave goodbye to that kettle tipper wire thing and have something smart and modern on the work top!

Good bye Kettle Tipper!

There’s no need for lifting, pouring or any of the awkward and potentially risky activities involved in making a good old cuppa. It’s a great development for those who have dexterity issues or problems with fine motor skills and as this tweeter puts it, there’s no longer any need to worry about pouring boiling water on yourself:

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The Breville Hot Cup can make that cuppa of yours risk-free and it also has many other great features. If you choose the model with variable dispense, you can vary the size of the cup you use, meaning you can enjoy a big steamy cup of coffee in the morning and then reduce your intake throughout the day as it can’t hurt to reduce your caffeine intake. It works extremely quickly, boiling in less than a minute and you’ll be absolutely stoked with your new purchase.

Save money on boiling a kettle

We have used one for over two years and they pay for themselves quickly in the electricity that they save. As you only boil as much as you need it really saves the ££££s over time. The filters are expensive though, but we have found that it works just as well without one and have been using ours for 18 months without needing to descale it. Obviously this will vary depending on where you live.

This video shows a demo of the Hot Cup in action:

The Innovative Breville Hot Cup

As you can see, it’s a really clever piece of kit which could make life so much easier and avoid the risk of dangerous burns. In addition to ease of use, the Breville Hot Cup is extremely easy to maintain with a built-in limescale filter and it comes with a drip tray as standard so you can avoid spills on your counter tops.

The Breville Hot Cup is ideal for your morning coffee, your afternoon tea and your bed time cocoa.