BREYDON’s wheelchair trials: Ottobock

breydon.id.au/locomote/trials/ottobock

Saturday 27 March 2021.
Updated 31 October 2023.

Ottobock specialise in prosthetics and orthoses. Their folding box‐frame chair was much stabler and shorter than TiLite’s folding chair. The billion‐euro holding company behind Ottobock concentrate on Ottobock and a single IT company, in stark contrast with some of the other big makers of rigid chairs (who appear to deal in the main with supplying miscellaneous equipment and surgical supplies to hospitals, or umpteen other industries). So things sound relatively promising, when it comes to Ottobock’s rigid chairs.

1. Tried

(to date)

1.1. Scissor‐fold, transit, and/or hospital‐style chairs

• ★★‒‒‒ Ottobock [unknown model: Avantgarde DV?]: Great for its (terrible) type.

1.2. Nimble rigid chairs

• ★★★★‒ Ottobock Zenit: Extremely well engineered.

2. Would like to try

Compare with other nimble chairs for manoeuverability and tight spaces.

• Ottobock Invader wheelchair for everyday use
• Ottobock Zenit R CLT
• Ottobock Ventus