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Power Wheelchair Market Assessment
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Power Wheelchair Market Shares, Forecasts, and Driving Forces
Health Care Cost Containment Trends
Reimbursement Drives Healthcare Equipment Industry
Hospital And Home Care Services Billing Issues
Power Wheelchairs
Power Wheelchair Advanced Technical System
Ultralife Batteries
Government Regulations
Technological Trends
Science And Medical Technology
Marketing Globally
Wheelchair Distribution
Price-Cutting Programs
Medical Equipment Government Regulation

Power Wheelchair
Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2007 to 2013

Wheelchair products are marketed in the United States and Asia/Pacific primarily to providers who in turn sell or rent these products directly to consumers within the non-acute care setting. The primary customer is the home medical equipment (HME) provider. Pull-through marketing strategy is to medical professionals, including physical and occupational therapists.

Patients go to HME providers to obtain specific types of home medical equipment. Consumers express a product or brand preference. Invacare is the market leader with a domestic sales and marketing organization that consists of a home care sales force, which markets and sells Invacare® branded products to HME providers.

The service referral network includes over 600 providers who honor Invacare product warranties regardless of where the product was purchased. This network of servicing providers helps ensure that all consumers using Invacare products receive quality service and support that is consistent with the Invacare brand promise.

Distributed soft goods and disposable medical supplies are sold through the Invacare supply group. ISG is a component of Invacare “Total One Stop Shopping” program, through which Invacare offers HME providers of all sizes a broad range of products and services at a lower total cost.

Hospital and homecare wheelchair technology is evolving to give people with disabilities more mobility. Markets are poised to create the ability for people to get more exercise and impact the healthcare delivery industry by encouraging mobility of people who were previously bed ridden. Wheelchairs impact care delivery, permitting moving from the bed and facilitating exercise. Patients and family gain more control over the care delivery. Care can be delivered in familiar settings.

Invacare is an industry leader in the market for home medical products. They manufacture and distribute a bundled wheelchair, respiratory, and patient care homecare product offering to home medical equipment providers. Invacare has a very strong distribution network.

Power wheelchair markets in dollars at $756.5 million in 2006 are expected to reach a little over $1 billion by 2013. This is because Power Wheelchairs are in a high growth market.

Companies Profiled

Invacare
Sunrise
Amigo Mobility
Convaid
Convaquip
Drive Medical
Eagle Sportschairs
Gendron Inc.
Glide Rehabilitation
Graham-Field
Gunnell Hoveround
Magic Mobility
Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs
Meyra
Product Design Group
Permobil
Piaggio
Pride Mobility
RGK
Soleus Mobility
Yamaha Motor
Wheelchair Power Mobilizers

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