Wheelchair Tray - Video Testimonial from Dr Mark Edworthy for Trabasack

May 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Dr Mark Edworthy, serial entrepreneur, research physicist, Tiger Moth pilot and acclaimed public speaker  is a trabasack user of two years and enthusiastic supporter. He caught polio as a child, and at the age of 37, he nearly died after accidentally being given ten times the dose of Typhoid and Cholera vaccine.  As he recovered, he found he had completely lost the ability to speak.   He struggled desperately to speak articulately again and after only four months had regained enough to undertake a lecture trip to China giving presentations of his research in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

Although this experience seemed devastating at the time Mark now claims that it was the best thing that could have happened to him because it enabled him to really see his life in perspective.  Unfortunately the experience also triggered the first signs of Post-Polio-Syndrome, a condition that can arise thirty years or more after childhood polio.

He changed career and started two office equipment companies from scratch. Ten years later he sold these successful businesses, but instead of retiring, he retrained as a commercial pilot; perhaps not the obvious choice for someone in their early 50's who had polio as a child.

When it became obvious that he would become a full-time wheelchair user, had to adapt his home, he literally had it bulldozed and rebuilt it as a fully-accessible house with many of his innovations for easy-living.   To him, this was just another set of problems to be solved.  Indeed he won a design award for this work, his own Grand Design. He now gives public talks about this process of creating an accessible home. More details can be found at http://markspeaking.com

More recently, he survived an aircraft crash in the Peak District in which the aircraft was completely destroyed.  "It's all down to preparation and training" he calmly explained during the subsequent BBC interviews.

Despite now using a wheelchair following the late effects of his childhood polio, Mark still flies vintage aircraft regularly and is also a qualified instructor for the charity "Aerobility", which provides flight-experiences and flight training for disabled people, both civilian and ex-military.  

Below he gives a video testimonial for Trabasack wheelchair tray. He is a trabasack user of two years now and he has been one of their most enthusiastic supporters. He bought a trabasack at it's launch at Naidex, NEC, Birmingham, April 2009.

Ever since then he has met with the Trabasack team regularly at shows and events around the country, where he is often booked as a public speaker. He decided he would say a few words about how he uses trabasack for a video testimonial.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUMS35TxgI&feature=player...



Mark uses trabasack to work on when he travels around the country by train. It supports his laptop and he uses it to carry his work notes and documents. He also uses it during his public speaking events, and as a wheelchair tray for drinks and food at restaurants.
Equip-able Ltd, the award winning design team that created trabasack are delighted that he still has the one he bought two years ago and, despite daily use, it has proved very hard wearing and durable.

Mark is seen using trabasack in his manual wheelchair but he also uses it in his powerchair. He says it is the most useful wheelchair accessory. Being a unique lap tray and wheelchair bag and also suitable as a smaller laptop or tablet bag. Click for more information and to purchase a trabasack wheelchair tray. http://wheelchairtray.co.uk

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