High-end wheelchair sports equipment from Switzerland
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Wheelchair sports aids
Athletics, hand bike, basketball, rugby, tennis and badminton, snow sports, fun sports, and many more.
Our mission is #freedomofmovement. At Orthotec you will find various wheelchair sports aids for individual sports, elite sports and recreational sports. We adjust sports wheelchairs for adults and for children. We sell an extremely wide selection of brands and offer a superb range of our own-brand OT FOXX products for wheelchair athletics.
Benefit from a comprehensive offer ranging from advice to manufacturing and sales, and to our international racing service and repairs. We also produce individually adjusted accessories for wheelchair sports, such as runners, belts and sports gloves. In addition, we offer customised sports aids for para athletes with various physical disabilities.
Partners
Orthotec is the official supplier of Swiss Paralympic.
We measure ourselves against the best in the world, which means that you benefit from the top-class Swiss quality of our products and services.
Wheelchair Sports team
We always speak at eye level. From athlete to athlete. We are proud of our unique team of advisers: former international top-ranking wheelchair athletes, experienced coaches, and technicians who know what success depends on and who work on refinements with you.
Sports development
10% discount on all sports aids
Sports developmentWheelchair sports make #freedomofmovement accessible. Sport has a positive effect on body and mind and enriches your day-to-day life. As this is so important to us in our role as a supplier and non-profit organisation, we also want to provide active financial support for wheelchair sports. This is why we offer everyone with a spinal cord injury and similar disabilities around the world 10% discount on the sales price of sports aids. This also applies to institutions.
Further specifications: if the sports device is financed by insurance or other contributions, the 10% is applied to the excess. The discount also applies to repairs and modifications, including material, in the area of sports aids. According to our definition, sports aids include, for example, rugby wheelchairs, racing wheelchairs, hand bikes, sports prostheses and orthotic devices, including accessories for the aid, such as wheels, tyres, etc. It does not include accessories such as standard commercial gloves or helmets, etc. Any arising transport costs are excluded from the discount.
Innovation
Elite wheelchair sports are an innovation driver for Orthotec.
When the best people in their disciplines commit to a joint goal, solutions arise that set new standards, which is something we love and something that serves the well-being of wheelchair users. This is why we drive innovation with our projects and create networks of experts for this purpose.
Improvements relating to materials, manufacturing processes, aerodynamics and shapes are channelled into general wheelchair technology, medicine, and rehabilitation of people with a spinal cord injury.
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This is Orthotec
Wheelchair sports are in our DNA.
Orthotec works hand-in-hand with the specialist Swiss Paraplegic Centre clinic. The wheelchair sports facilities in our headquarters in Nottwil are among the most advanced in the world. It is our pleasure to achieve optimal results for you. As a dealer and manufacturer, we develop specialist solutions that allow you to live your dream of #freedomofmovement.
The Swiss company Orthotec AG is a charitable subsidiary of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation. We offer aids and services to promote #freedomofmovement for people with a spinal cord injury and similar disabilities. More than 80 employees work in the five areas of competence: vehicle adaptation; rehabilitation technology; orthopaedic technology; incontinence products and daily living aids; and wheelchair sports. Orthotec was founded in 1994 with its headquarters in Nottwil (Canton Lucerne, Switzerland) and a subsidiary for vehicle adaptation in Cugy (Canton Vaud, Switzerland). We serve the Swiss and the international market.
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