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Hello!
A current player on a sled hockey team in Southeastern Minnesota, is seeking to become more independent on the ice. He has a cervical level spinal cord injury and requires a pusher to propel himself forward, because of the fixed position of the stick, he cannot use both ends (In a normal case, players will use a hockey stick (2), the shooting end and the ice pick end are opposite to one another. Digging into the ice with the ice pick will propel forward and turning the stick with your wrist allows you to shoot) With alteration of the stick and mounting set up to the arm, we believe he could propel forward and shoot/pass the puck.
A while back on youtube.com I came across a video of a AE-amputee playing sled hockey. The set up he was using looked to be that his shooting stick was held in position, by a bracket, and parallel to his forearm. The ice pick end required to propel forward was also held in position, by a bracket, and perpendicular to the forearm. Creating two supplementary right angles, arm bent at 90 and stick/ice pick at 90. We need to recreate this, but I am having no luck on the search.
Has anyone used or seen a similar set up? Any advice or opinions are much appreciated!
Thank you!
TAMUstu
A current player on a sled hockey team in Southeastern Minnesota, is seeking to become more independent on the ice. He has a cervical level spinal cord injury and requires a pusher to propel himself forward, because of the fixed position of the stick, he cannot use both ends (In a normal case, players will use a hockey stick (2), the shooting end and the ice pick end are opposite to one another. Digging into the ice with the ice pick will propel forward and turning the stick with your wrist allows you to shoot) With alteration of the stick and mounting set up to the arm, we believe he could propel forward and shoot/pass the puck.
A while back on youtube.com I came across a video of a AE-amputee playing sled hockey. The set up he was using looked to be that his shooting stick was held in position, by a bracket, and parallel to his forearm. The ice pick end required to propel forward was also held in position, by a bracket, and perpendicular to the forearm. Creating two supplementary right angles, arm bent at 90 and stick/ice pick at 90. We need to recreate this, but I am having no luck on the search.
Has anyone used or seen a similar set up? Any advice or opinions are much appreciated!
Thank you!
TAMUstu
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