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Victim assessment reports and health and fitness being maintained after a serious accident, buying the right type of gym equipment to help with rehabilitation
Continuing with Equipment.
Access to leisure.
You may find that having gym equipment in your home to be an extremely useful facility. Keeping your fitness levels high must be of importance to you. Your lack of mobility may seriously affect your fitness levels and life expectancy. The defendants insurers will bleat hard on this item of need, They will say that you can go to a gym. You may not find that as easy as it sounds.
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Finding a gym will be easy. Finding a gym with the correct level of staff that are trained in disability issues and facilities for you eg bathing after a workout safely and to give you support while training is quite a different matter. You may have to travel considerable distances to find a the beginnings of a suitable gym, and even then more likely than not they will not be perfect.
Medication could affect your driving abilities when tired after your exercise, this may entail paying for taxis there and back and paying for the carers travel expenses as well. You may need to access certain items of equipment that you cannot have in your home, so you may end up buying some equipment and going to the gym.
This may be an acceptable solution as far as your Occupational Therapist is concerned in the early stages because it also gets one out to interact with people in the early stages of your disability. When one suffers from PTSD and Depression resulting from an accident it may indeed help you.
Years into you case however your Occupational Therapist may change her mind on the need for both items to be provided. Her opinion may change and she may then give you a choice of the keep fit solutions.
It is a matter for you to say what is right for you. Personally, we fell keeping the gym items at home was a better option for many practical reasons not the least being it meant housing the equipment which of course meant an additional room in the accommodation. Even then you may find her opinion restricting you to only a few items of equipment.
So what happens if you have bought more items of gym equipment than has been allowed? The point is if you have bought them you have stored them and if you are using them and need them you should be compensated for them. A dispute as to the necessity of them doesn't get away from the fact that you have housed them at home. It is all a matter for legal argument. So get you evidence ready.
Use the evidence provided by your personal circumstances to answer the criticism. Home based gym equipment is a great answer to keeping your fitness levels at an appropriate level. Fitness for pushing manual wheelchairs and walking with a prosthesis is a must.
Ensuring you home is adapted to provide you with
mobility and getting the right physiotherapy.
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