Every Kid Mobility Turns Kids' Crutches and Personalized Canes Into Colorful
Custom Fashion Statements
Every Kid Mobility Inc., a Minneapolis-based company, transforms kids' crutches into a colorful,
custom-designed fashion prop, helping kids feel good about taking their crutches to school. Now
the crutches, as well as personalized canes for adults, can be purchased through durable medical
equipment vendors using health insurance, with EKM providing the decoration for a separate fee.
Hugo, MN (PRWEB) August 27, 2009 -- Every Kid Mobility Inc., the online home of Creative Crutches,
announces that their customized crutches and personalized canes are now available through durable medical
equipment vendors.
That means that crutch and cane users of all ages can use their health insurance to purchase mobility devices and
pay EKM a fee to decorate them.
EKM is accepting applications from medical suppliers and anticipates having providers in all 50 states by the end
of the year. The first authorized vendor is Handi Medical Supply, Inc., located in St. Paul, Minn.
Minneapolis-based Every Kid Mobility Inc. transforms what has traditionally has been viewed as a stigma -
crutches and canes- into, of all things, colorful, custom-designed fashion props. The success stories are numerous
and heart-warming - like the girl in South Dakota who had been ashamed to take her crutches to school - until,
that is, she was equipped with crutches covered with pink dragons.
"Every Kid Mobility allows you to be seen for who you are by offering designer crutches in sizes that range from
toddler to adult," Sally Brown, the companies owner and founder, explains.
Anna, the 3-year-old daughter of Annie Beth Donahue of the Charlotte, N.C., area, "wouldn't even use crutches,"
Donahue remembers, "until she discovered she could have them in pink!"
That's "her" color, Anna's mother says. "She is very fashion-minded, very motivated by fashion." Before Every
Kid Mobility's set came along, Anna was holding onto furniture, to people'