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December 3, 2018

So You’ve Never Used a Manual Wheelchair Before?

Over 30% of GRIT Freedom Chair riders have never used a manual wheelchair before. Individuals with difficulty walking find that the GRIT Freedom Chair enables easier travel over long distances and rough terrain than their walkers, canes, or crutches.

May 4, 2017

Rider Spotlight (Kids Edition): Jayden the Scout

Jayden, one of our new Bear Scouts, has Arthrogryposis. He cannot move his legs and has been through 9 surgeries since he was born. After I saw him in that chair, I saw this was a whole new quality of life for him.

January 27, 2016

Science: The Secret Behind the GRIT Freedom Chair

We remember when the GRIT Freedom Chair was a brainstorming session on a whiteboard, in a long-neglected building in the northwest corner of the MIT campus, in a room we affectionately called the “MIT Mobility Lab.”

January 12, 2016

6 Awesome Design Features of the GRIT Freedom Chair

We like to think of the GRIT Freedom Chair as the best of beauty and brains: it’s visually appealing and efficiently engineered, and it took years of dedication, multiple prototypes, and a lot of feedback from wheelchair riders to get here.

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