The Invacare Rea Azalea is a highly adjustable tilt-in-space manual wheelchair designed for users requiring advanced postural support, pressure management and comfort. Featuring up to 25° seat tilt,... read more
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Description
Invacare Rea Azalea Tilt-in-Space Manual Wheelchair
The Invacare Rea Azalea is a tilt-in-space manual wheelchair designed for users who require advanced postural support, pressure management and long-term seating comfort.
Part of Invacare’s established Rea range, the Azalea combines a versatile seating system with extensive adjustment and positioning options.With up to 25° of seat tilt and 30° of backrest recline, the Rea Azalea can help carers and clinicians achieve a wide range of seating positions while maintaining stability and supporting effective posture.
Advanced Tilt-in-Space and Recline
The Rea Azalea has been developed for users with more complex seating and postural requirements.
Both the seat tilt and backrest recline can be adjusted using attendant-operated gas pistons, providing smooth and relatively effortless positioning. The standard chair provides approximately 25° of seat tilt and 30° of backrest recline, allowing the user’s position to be changed throughout the day to support comfort, posture and pressure management.
Invacare Dual Stability System
A key feature of the Rea Azalea is Invacare’s Dual Stability System (DSS). As the wheelchair tilts and reclines, the seating system moves forwards and downwards within the frame. This controlled weight shift is designed to help maintain stability even when the chair is used in more reclined or tilted positions.
The system also allows the wheelchair’s pivot points to follow the natural movement of the user more closely, helping reduce unwanted movement between the body and the seating system.
Flex 3 Backrest
The Flex 3 Backrest Plate provides an adjustable platform with both width and height adjustment and can be combined with a range of postural support cushions.
Designed for Pressure and Posture Management
Users who spend long periods in a wheelchair may benefit from regular changes in position. Tilt-in-space allows the complete seating system to change angle while maintaining the relationship between the seat and backrest. Recline independently changes the angle of the back support.
Used appropriately as part of a clinical seating programme, these functions can help redistribute pressure, alter loading through the seating surface and provide different resting positions during the day. The Azalea's Dual Stability System has been specifically designed to maintain wheelchair stability while these positioning functions are used.
Crash Tested for Occupied Transport
The Rea Azalea has been crash tested to ISO 7176-19. Where the wheelchair is intended to be occupied during vehicle transportation, the exact configuration, approved tie-down points, occupant restraint system and manufacturer's transportation instructions must be followed.
Key features
- Specialist tilt-in-space manual wheelchair
- Designed for advanced postural support and comfort
- Up to 25° seat tilt
- Up to 30° backrest recline
- Invacare Dual Stability System
- Weight-shifting design helps maintain stability during tilt and recline
- Designed to support effective pressure redistribution
- Transit wheel configurations
- Gas-assisted attendant tilt and recline
- Maximum user weight of 135 kg/21.3st
- Crash tested to ISO 7176-19
Specification
- Seat width: 39cm / 44cm / 49cm
- Seat depth: 43cm
- Seat angle / tilt: Approximately -1° to 23°
- Seat height: 4cm
- Backrest angle: 0°–30°
- Backrest height:
- Flex 3 backrest plate: 560–790 mm
- Footrest length: 33–62.7cm adjustable
- Armrest height: 24–36cm adjustable
- Overall width: Approximately seat width + 22cm
- Overall length including footrests: 95–103.5cm
- Overall height: 90-125cm
- Maximum safe slope: 7°
- Maximum user weight: 135 kg
- Total wheelchair weight: Approximately 34 kg based on a 44cm seat width configuration
- Transport weight: Approximately 16.5 kg
- Crash testing: ISO 7176-19
FAQs
Who Is the Invacare Rea Azalea For?
The Rea Azalea is designed primarily for wheelchair users who require significant seating and postural support and who may spend extended periods of the day in their wheelchair.
It can be particularly appropriate where requirements include:
- Tilt-in-space positioning
- Reclining back support
- Pressure redistribution
- Trunk and pelvic positioning
- Attendant propulsion
- Adaptable postural support
- Changing seating requirements over time
Why Choose the Invacare Rea Azalea?
The Invacare Rea Azalea has become an established choice for users requiring a highly adjustable tilt-in-space wheelchair with advanced postural support.
Its combination of the Dual Stability System, 25° tilt, 30° recline, Flex 3 backrest options and extensive seating configurations provides considerable flexibility for clinicians, carers and wheelchair users.
Whether configured for attendant propulsion or limited self-propulsion, the Azalea provides a stable and highly adaptable platform for long-term seating and positioning requirements