People
We believe that true innovation comes from creative thinking and a close relationship with our customers. The creation of each one of our products is the direct result of a conversation that we have had with a wheelchair user.
Products
We are a team of entrepreneurial graduate students at the University of Illinois that is actively involved in the wheelchair community. To see our full product line, click here.
Ideas
Whether you are a potential customer, or just excited about the development of wheelchair technologies, we want to hear from you! If you have an idea that you want to see created for a wheelchair, let us know what it is. Submit your idea here.
This is exciting new technology that has the potential to improve the quality of life for people who use wheelchairs on a daily basis.–Mike Frogley, Coach of the Illini Wheelchair Basketball Team
If it really works the way he intends it to work, it’ll actually really be good for the life time of the long-time wheelchair user. […] If it’s going to be able to decrease the amount of effort an individual has to put out while pushing the chair, it’ll over time be a lot easier on the joints and save their shoulders.–Stephen Fisher, Wheelchair User
The Intelliwheels design is ideally suited for reducing loads on the upper body, while making gear shifting transparent to the user – such that the design caneven be used by individuals with cognitive impairment.–Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler, PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois
In my professional opinion the wheelchair design being pursued, Intelliwheels, has thepotential to greatly impact the quality of life of manual wheelchair users by reducingand/or minimizing shoulder pain.–Jacob Sosnoff, PhD, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois
While power wheelchairs self propel, they do not allow the user to maintain their functional strength. The IntelliWheels product, with its gear shift, would maximize effort in propulsion and allow the user maintenance of available strength.–Catherine Demler, OT/L, Occupational Therapist
