Adaptable House

Active Rest and Recovery: A Bed Mobility System

An athlete living with MS needed safer, more supportive ways to move, stretch, and exercise in and around a bed during periods of limited mobility, when getting in and out of bed and spending extended time in bed became especially challenging. The project explored a bed-adjacent mobility system intended to help a partially impaired user engage muscles and stretching while accommodating changing day-to-day needs, improving ease and security during bed transfers, and providing an aesthetic that felt calming and motivating. The work was aimed at producing a first-run prototype design and engineering concept suitable for future refinement toward a market-ready system.