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Dragonmobility powerchairs enable you to engage with the world. They transform the live of the drivers and their families. Click on a photo below to read few accounts of how it feels using a dragonmobility powerchair and how it changed life of few of our drivers.

Ruth Everard

Andy Speke

Cath McNicol

Charlie Williams

Everards and Millers

In July 2006 Ruth Everard met Fritz Miller at the Families of SMA annual conference which was held in San Diego, California. Back here in Cambridge we had seen the documentary Normal For Us that OPB produced telling the amazing story about 'the Miller twins' who come from Alaska. The twins, who have Spinal Muscular Atrophy, each used a Turbo - a predecessor of the SnapDragon - from the age of eighteen months. They have since used a chair which their father, Fritz, developed to enable them to go on benefitting from the level of mobility they had become used to with the Turbo, so it was great that the Everards and the Millers could finally meet up

The twins are now eighteen years old and Fritz is further developing his off-road powerchair designed to cope with Alaskan terrain (the M-V chair). He initially designed it for his girls and is now also making it available to others on a bespoke basis in the USA. At the conference he had a good look at the Dragon and SnapDragon and here are few of his thoughts

"I had a great time talking with Ruth, and am very pleased to see that her family has kept going on their chair. I looked the Dragon and SnapDragon over with a fine toothed comb and can only say that NASA would be proud to have created that chair. The design, materials and workmanship are far beyond any thing on the market, including ours."

"The Dragon is at a totally different level of refinement. If we had another child today with SMA I would fly to the UK for a SnapDragon. The Dragon is a superb indoor and urban chair. When watching the little boy in the SnapDragon, he was never where his parents wanted him to be, he was too busy exploring, running up to touch things with ease. The stationary chairs just can't do that, my hopes are that with the Dragon available the light will come on for new and old SMA parents"

Gallery

So what exactly can you do with your dragonmobility powerchair? See below for some photos that some of the dragon-drivers have sent in showing possibly more unusual and special uses!

a water fight Liam and his dad went to a party where the theme was ... an alien water fight. So they took the challenge seriously. Would you be a match for them? see the photo.

riding on ice Cath has taken her Dragon on an ice rink. And to share the fun she towed some passangers. see the photo.

If you have a photo that you would like to show other people either of a SnapDragon or Dragon in an unusual context then do contact us.