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Recliner chair
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- Lemon Pip
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Recliner chair
Ideally I would like to lose weight and get fit.
Ideally I would like to improve my lifestyle to avoid the risk of a repeat of the bypass surgery I am currently recovering from.
Meanwhile can any fool recommend a good recliner chair?
Not just allowing tilting back for comfortable couch potato activity but also to facilitate forward and upward propulsion back into standing position necessary for shuffling off to the loo and the larder?
Power driven. Heating and massage optional.
It would have to be delivered up two flights of stairs to my flat and hopefully the old chair removed.
Thank you.
Ideally I would like to improve my lifestyle to avoid the risk of a repeat of the bypass surgery I am currently recovering from.
Meanwhile can any fool recommend a good recliner chair?
Not just allowing tilting back for comfortable couch potato activity but also to facilitate forward and upward propulsion back into standing position necessary for shuffling off to the loo and the larder?
Power driven. Heating and massage optional.
It would have to be delivered up two flights of stairs to my flat and hopefully the old chair removed.
Thank you.
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- Lemon Slice
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Re: Recliner chair
I went through this process with my mother and, after a lot of research, concluded that the only way to buy a suitable reclining chair was to try before you buy. There are plenty of specialist suppliers around. I bought one for my mother in Cardiff where the shop had plenty to try and even loan before purchase. I doubt whether specific recommendations from anyone will be suitable as we are all different shapes and sizes as well as having differing needs.
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- Lemon Half
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Re: Recliner chair
I think that the ejector seat function is probably more important than the reclining action. I agree that a trial is essential before you buy, so a local firm with a showroom is a good place to look. No idea about brands, but try to see a selection of models.
TJH
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Re: Recliner chair
Grumpi wrote:Ideally I would like to lose weight and get fit.
Ideally I would like to improve my lifestyle to avoid the risk of a repeat of the bypass surgery I am currently recovering from.
Meanwhile can any fool recommend a good recliner chair?
Not just allowing tilting back for comfortable couch potato activity but also to facilitate forward and upward propulsion back into standing position necessary for shuffling off to the loo and the larder?
Power driven. Heating and massage optional.
It would have to be delivered up two flights of stairs to my flat and hopefully the old chair removed.
Thank you.
Not quite sure I understand. You would like to get fit and lose some weight. A recliner chair is not going to help with either of these objectives.
Maybe take a walk each day, lengthening the walk day by day and of course walking up and down the stairs to your flat might be more effective. I do not think that would be incompatible with bypass surgery although I would not know.
Dod
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Re: Recliner chair
Not a recommendation about which brand to buy, but some observations from someone who owns one:
- typically these come with either two or four actions (recline/eject, footrest forward/back) and the control has buttons to suit. You typically only need four-action ones if you want to sit upright with the footrest extended. I am told that those with a touch of dementia have trouble with the more complex actions
- motorised chairs are heavy
- if you are paying sufficient to get a a'good' one, they are made to order and you can have them covered in fabrics of your choice (or at least from a wide range) to match your existing decor
- if funds permit, you can often order a 'normal' (non-motorised) chair from the same maker to be covered in the same material. And any local upholstery service can re-cover an existing footstool or chair that you wish to keep: just make a note of the material you order for the motorised chair.
- typically these come with either two or four actions (recline/eject, footrest forward/back) and the control has buttons to suit. You typically only need four-action ones if you want to sit upright with the footrest extended. I am told that those with a touch of dementia have trouble with the more complex actions
- motorised chairs are heavy
- if you are paying sufficient to get a a'good' one, they are made to order and you can have them covered in fabrics of your choice (or at least from a wide range) to match your existing decor
- if funds permit, you can often order a 'normal' (non-motorised) chair from the same maker to be covered in the same material. And any local upholstery service can re-cover an existing footstool or chair that you wish to keep: just make a note of the material you order for the motorised chair.
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Re: Recliner chair
Thank you for the kind responses so far. I have not explained my situation very well.
I have just got out of hospital after bypass surgery and am in temporary convalescence before returning to my flat. So far I can shuffle to the bathroom.
I am not supposed to lift more than 2kg or do push-up style movement to get out of a chair in case the two halves of my sternum fail to knit back together.
My old recliner is mechanical and worn out. I would like to replace it with a new one which has the ability to lift me up and out of the chair and is driven electrically. I have seen these online and hoped to get recommendations and help from lemonfools here.
I fully understand that my idle slothful lifestyle has got me where I am today and tried to defend myself by saying that as and when I do recover I will duly change my wicked ways.
Love
Yours
Grumpi ;-(
I have just got out of hospital after bypass surgery and am in temporary convalescence before returning to my flat. So far I can shuffle to the bathroom.
I am not supposed to lift more than 2kg or do push-up style movement to get out of a chair in case the two halves of my sternum fail to knit back together.
My old recliner is mechanical and worn out. I would like to replace it with a new one which has the ability to lift me up and out of the chair and is driven electrically. I have seen these online and hoped to get recommendations and help from lemonfools here.
I fully understand that my idle slothful lifestyle has got me where I am today and tried to defend myself by saying that as and when I do recover I will duly change my wicked ways.
Love
Yours
Grumpi ;-(
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Re: Recliner chair
Hi Grumpi
I was being rather flippant. I hope your recovery goes well. These things usually do these days I think. Sorry I cannot add anything re a chair.
Dod
I was being rather flippant. I hope your recovery goes well. These things usually do these days I think. Sorry I cannot add anything re a chair.
Dod
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Re: Recliner chair
Not at all. Ideally as I recover I should adopt a healthy lifestyle, lose 9 stone, achieve a fitness level that would would allow me to leap upright from an overstuffed sofa. It’s just that I can’t see that ever happening so it’s the recliner for me.
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Re: Recliner chair
Not a lot to contribute, Grumpi, except to say that I hope it all goes well and that you're hurtling around again soon.
I had no idea there were so many manufacturers! Back in the days before Ebay, we helped my old mum to choose one with the help of the specialist shop just down the road, and we found it was really important to have that one-to-one service. They even brought a couple of chairs round to her house so that she could try them at home - which was quite impressive considering the size, the weight, and the cost of any accidental rips or knocks that might have happened.
I'm going on memory here, but ISTR that there were quite a number of 'actions' that different chairs could perform. Mum needed the full rise-and-tilt-forward option, and it was important to her that the controls were on a corded controller, not on buttons that formed a part of the arm.
The term 'ejector seat' gets me laughing. Don't try the turbo ejector unless you're fully helmeted up, with all the windows open just in case. Happy landings.
BJ
I had no idea there were so many manufacturers! Back in the days before Ebay, we helped my old mum to choose one with the help of the specialist shop just down the road, and we found it was really important to have that one-to-one service. They even brought a couple of chairs round to her house so that she could try them at home - which was quite impressive considering the size, the weight, and the cost of any accidental rips or knocks that might have happened.
I'm going on memory here, but ISTR that there were quite a number of 'actions' that different chairs could perform. Mum needed the full rise-and-tilt-forward option, and it was important to her that the controls were on a corded controller, not on buttons that formed a part of the arm.
The term 'ejector seat' gets me laughing. Don't try the turbo ejector unless you're fully helmeted up, with all the windows open just in case. Happy landings.
BJ
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Re: Recliner chair
Don't have one myself but my friend, who suffers from osteo arthritis, got hers from HSL. She is delighted with it, especially now that my OH has moved her telephone so that she doesn't have to attempt to leap up to answer it (she doesn't do mobile phone).
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Re: Recliner chair
Charity shops often have these chairs at very reasonable prices. Save money and donate to a worthwhile cause at the same time.
They are usually very accommodating about delivery.
(This may not be relevant to the OP)
They are usually very accommodating about delivery.
(This may not be relevant to the OP)
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