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We supply the REST-er-CISER Footstool, which automatically exercises your legs while you sit, helping to prevent your joints from "stiffening up". Originally designed for a Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferer, the Rest-er-Ciser Footstool is now available to everyone. For more information on the footstool, click on the picture or click here. Read the story of how it all started below:

HOW IT ALL STARTED...

When Julie Wright developed Rheumatoid Arthritis, the mobility of her joints became severely impaired. Along with many other RA sufferers, she found it especially difficult to get up from her chair and walk after watching TV or reading, as her joints would stiffen up while seated. Her husband Peter, an electronics engineer and co-director with Julie of Amcro Technology Ltd., wondered if there was some way her legs could be kept mobile whilst seated, and whether this would make getting up less difficult for her.

After a little thought, some basic carpentry and a visit to a local scrap-yard, he came up with a crude footstool that slowly exercised the legs without requiring any effort by the user. When Julie tried this it proved more successful than they had dared hope. Not only did she find it easier to get up after being seated, but she also felt some longer-term benefit the next day. The footstool was shown to their GP, and also tried by some other rheumatic sufferers, with similar positive results.

Encouraged, and convinced that the stool idea could help others, they set about turning it into a saleable product. Rather than make it purely functional, Julie felt it should be a piece of furniture which would look attractive in the home, as well as providing therapy. A local furniture-maker was commissioned to produce the woodwork, and the mechanical and electrical design was updated to make it reproducible as well as meeting the necessary standards. And so the Rest-er-Ciser footstool was born.

The platform of the footstool is electrically operated, and moves slowly up and down according to a pre-set sequence. The movement provides "passive exercise" to the legs, but in a way that is so slow and quiet that the user rapidly becomes unaware of it. Regular use can bring a significant improvement in mobility, but unlike so many other aids for the disabled which are designed to be purely functional, it also looks good in the home. Julie and Peter have high hopes that the Rest-er-Ciser footstool will help others to live with a painful and dispiriting illness that still has no cure.

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