The Exodus I (stationary glider) and Exodus II (glider/wheelchair) from Genesis Chairs, Inc. may offer significant benefit to people with the following conditions and/or residual effects of these injuries:

Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)
Alzheimer's Disease
Amputation
Amyotonia
Arthritis
Autism
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Closed Head Injury
Edema, dependant
Hemiplegia/hemiparesis
Motor Neuron Disease
Muscular Dystrophy
Multiple Sclerosis
Osteoporosis
Paraparesis
Parkinson's Disease
Post Fracture
Quadriparesis
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Restless Legs Syndrome
Spinal Dysfunction (back and neck pain)
Stress Disorders
TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) Dysfunction
Generalized Weakness
... and others.

Benefits may be derived by the following mechanisms which can be activated while using the gliders:

NOTE: As with any exercise program, you must discuss your use of the glider chair/wheelchair with your physician prior to beginning its use for exercises.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE GENESIS GLIDER/WHEELCHAIR:

Jane R. Davis, P.T.
FL PT 19822

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Dear Mr. Carlo,

Thank you for taking the time to travel to Tallahassee and demonstrate the glide chair which you have developed for persons with disabilities. I was very impressed with the overall design and construction of this chair, and in the time that I had to experiment with it, found it to potentially become a very useful rehabilitative aid.

I believe that there are individuals with varying disabilities who could benefit greatly through the use of this chair. Certainly people with lower extremity impairment can experience facilitated movement, which may lead to increased range of motion in the ankle and knee joints. I also see this device offering assistance to those who have restricted total body movement. Just experiencing dynamic motion may encourage persons with severe hypokinetic disorders to become more involved in active movement.

I will be interested in learning of the continued progress of your work in the area of facilitative movement for persons with disabilities and hope that one day we will be in a position here at Florida State University to purchase a chair of our own to use with our disabled student population. In the meantime, good luck and keep me informed.

Sincerely,

Robert A. Rider, Ph.D.
Professor
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Dear Mr. Carlo,

I am writing this letter in appreciation of an excellent product, your Exodus I glider chair. We recently purchased a single chair for my father, and eighty year old who has always been active. He had fallen several weeks ago and was having a difficult time in regaining his strength and independence in walking after an extended period of inactivity to allow healing of a sprained knee and pressure on the sciatic nerve from a wedged disc. After receiving the chair, Dad has progressed from using a walker, to a cane and is now independent in all activities including ambulation, driving a car and mowing the lawn!

As a registered Physical Therapist, I am aware of the excellent benefits which your chair allows in performing exercises, especially to the hips, knees, and ankles with little weight bearing stress applied to these joints. I am sure that my father has increased the strength, muscle tone and circulation in his lower extremities and he dies not have the pain and stiffness in the knees as severely from the degenerative arthritis he's experienced over the years.

As fellow Christians, we are happy you have dedicated your business to God and pray for your continued success and God's blessings.

Sincerely,

Audrey Starr, R.P.T.
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Dear Fred,

Thank you for suggesting that my grandmother use your glider in her exercise program. Many older patients could use this product for many reasons to enhance their health picture. One of the largest problems with older patients is getting them to move and increase activity levels of their legs and feet. Your chair allows the person to do this with minimum effort and ease as well as safety.

I would suggest this glider to nursing homes, hospice settings and recovery type facilities as a passive exerciser unit. The benefits to patients would be:

I really am impressed with the quality of construction and the safety features you have built into your product. If you need to reference me for future placements of this fine instrument please call.

Sincerely yours,

Ben S. Morris, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Carlo,

This letter is in support of the use of your glider/chair as a therapeutic instrument. Having tried the chair myself, I find it relaxing, soothing and capable of altering even the worst of negative moods and attitudes. It's benefit could be found in minimizing pain-related stressors as well as stimulating positive thoughts and feelings.

I would recommend it's use to persons of all ages.

Sincerely,

K. Pat Bell, Ph.D.
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Dear Mr. Carlo,

We have been utilizing your glider chair to promote a sense of relaxation in our pain patients with much success. We have also been able to utilize the glider for sensory stimulation in individuals with inner ear damage or balance problems with success.

Thank you for the opportunity to utilize your chair in our therapeutic interactions with patients over the past few months.

Sincerely,

Pamela Whitworth, P.T.
Outpatient Physical Therapy
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Rachel's Story

When Rachel first sat in what I call the "miracle" chair in 1992, she was only six years old. By God's grace, she celebrated her twentieth birthday on May 25, 2006. Rachel's doctor thought that she would not see her first birthday.

Rachel was diagnosed with profound mental retardation, cortical blindness, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy. She has soft, easily-broken bones because she is not able to move and strengthen them. Rachel had barely learned to hold a sippy cup and a spoon, when her seizure activity increased so much at the age of two that she lost those abilities. The only word that Rachel ever spoke was "Da-Da" (one time), and she laughed out loud twice when she was really young. She cannot clutch objects when they are placed in her hands, she cannot raise her arms; and she cannot stand on her feet and legs.

People probably look at Rachel as she sits slumped over and feel pity for her. We have certainly gotten enough stares over the years. Adults have actually snatched their children away from her, as if being disabled was catching. Rachel's sister, Colleen, and I look at Rachel and see how "God-blessed" she is. She is a happy, loving, sweet, gentle spirit and has the most beautiful smile. Rachel's name means "innocence," and she will be an innocent all of her life. She does not judge, criticize or have mean thoughts. She loves everyone who comes into her life unconditionally.

In 1992 Brother Benny Daniel introduced our family to Brother Fred Carlo who wanted to see if the Genesis exercise chair might benefit Rachel because she could not use her arms and legs. Rachel was so floppy that she had to have the posture seat from her wheelchair placed in the Genesis chair. We talked as Rachel glided back and forth. When Fred and Benny left, we stood on the front porch talking. Fred looked in the window where Rachel was sitting in the chair. Both of Rachel's arms were raised over her head in a praise position—an impossible feat—, and her face was lifted toward heaven. It is something that I have never seen her do. She had a smile on her face that was unforgettable.

Rachel cannot exercise because of her disabilities. Her caregivers do range of motion exercises for her to keep her limber. This chair that God brought to Fred over sixteen years ago will be a blessing to Rachel. I look forward to placing her in the Exodus I stationary chair on a regular basis. Recently a stranger prayed for a miracle to come into Rachel's life. Not long after that, Fred Carlo called me. We have not spoken in fourteen years. He said that his company is finally ready to begin production on the Exodus chairs. I am anxious to see how God's blessing will manifest itself for Rachel through the use of the Exodus I chair.

I used the Genesis chair (the prototype) when it was in our home. No matter how much stress was in my life, I could sit in the chair and find peace from the gentle movement. It also benefited me physically although I didn't have any major disabilities, just a touch of arthritis.

This is a God-driven venture for Fred, and I know the chairs will be a blessing in the lives of many people.

Sincerely,

Martha Abee
(Rachel's mom)

I live and work in Valdosta Ga. One thing I want you to know; this specially built exercise chair for severely disabled people really works and has a 100 percent good track record for helping severely disabled adults or children perform a passive or subtle form of exercise. This specially built exercise chair has been documented by registered physical therapist throughout the area. Our work in the south Georgia, north Florida, Valdosta area puts us in touch with many who are physically disabled. A well known international civic club, the Civitan Club, of which I am former president, just recently purchased two of these special exercise chairs to be used by the severely disabled.

Benny Daniels,
Author of Cross Power
Former President of Valdosta Civitan's Club

Interview with Carolyn Hughes:

Hello, everyone, I'm Benny Daniels. We work with the mentally and physically handicapped. We're here today to document this special experience of the Exodus I Range of Motion chair that Ms. Carol Hughes is sitting in. We're going to get her testimony. Over to my right, is Fred Carlo with Genesis Chairs, Inc. We're going to get some testimony from Carol Hughes who lives in Naylor, Georgia. She has an arthritic condition and she has been restored by using this special exercise chair that she's sitting in.
Tell us how you first got introduced to the chair.

I was out picking apples off my tree in my back yard, and I knew that Fred was coming because my husband had told me, but he had gone down to my Grandmother's. But they drove up with the chair, and so while Jim was down there, they unloaded it and put it out in the back yard and asked me to get in it and try it and I couldn't hardly walk then; they hadn't seen how swollen I was and how crippled I was, and you need to get in that chair and start gliding. He told me to hold my legs out and they asked my how my legs felt. I feel hot blood flowing in my legs and they felt warm and I had sores on my legs then, and they were bad, bad. Gardening made it real bad. So then after he left me the chair, and I had it for about seven to ten days. I used the chair religiously. I got in it and I'd glide it in the mornings when I'd get up and then at night till I would go to bed. I would glide off and on all during the day at different times And before I knew it I could walk on my foot and it wouldn't hurt. It was hurting a tiny bit, but not like it did. And then it would go to popping and cracking. It adjusted my ankle and it adjusted my foot. And then I could walk on my sore leg also because it made the blood circulate in my legs and didn't cause it to hurt. But I stayed cold. My feet and legs stayed cold all the time. My hands and the joints in my fingers were swollen real big and from gliding in the chair, and from using the arms of the chair, it exercised my wrist joints and my fingers. And it did something to my arms, my elbows, my back, my shoulders, also my neck. I could get up with headaches in the morning, and get in the chair for about fifteen minutes I would forget I even had a headache, it was gone. It helped my chest and my breathing. I have problems about breathing some mornings, and it helps my breathing problem. I can go to bed at night and sleep without
taking medicine to make me sleep.

I had to wear steel wrist supports
I lived with those things. I slept in them. I could not use the bathroom without my supports on. I couldn't use my hands to get my clothes up and down. I could not dress myself without my supports on. Now I don't even use them. I set out flowers; I dig holes with my shovel, and I work in my yard. I rake. I do things. I sweep floors, I vacuum. I do things I couldn't do. I couldn't hold out doing it.

Question: So you have one of these in your home?
Answer: Right, I live in it. I just about live in. I sat in it last night until about 12:30 or 1 o'clock because I had to doctor my leg. I sat up and watched a movie and gliding in my chair. It will put you to sleep. All you have to do it just get started and hold your legs out and you can just feel the blood circulating in your legs hot. I'm supposed to stay off my legs 90% of the time and elevate them.

Question: Tell us how much your hands have gone down. They look normal to me.
Answer:I cannot keep my rings on. I could not get my rings off. My husband gave me. Now my rings falls off my fingers. My wedding band--falls off my finger. I lost this one in the freezer the other day. Fell off my finger in the freezer.

It feels good.

Question: When you first go the chair could you pull anything with your hand?
Answer: I couldn't lift my pots. I couldn't pick up my coke and pour it without both hands. I couldn't open my coke without my pliers. I can open my Coke now with my hands and without my pliers.

Question: How about pain? When you glide in this special Exodus I Range of Motion chair, then you get rid of the pain?
Answer: It's like I took a pain killer or a shot to ease me, all of a sudden it's just gone, and you don't know when it leaves you. I lived in these things (steel wrist supports) here since '85, didn't I Daddy.

Question: How long has the swelling been reduced in your legs:
Answer: Within the first eight days the swelling went down in my legs.

Carolyn Hughes
Naylor, GA

Interview with Ann Moulton:

I had broken my one leg four times and it is very hard to use it. The ease of this chair and ability to move my leg and exercise normally has made all the difference in the world and To be able to get my chest and my arms to be stronger with ease without struggling. I think it is going to help my breath a lot too because I have been having trouble with breathing when I use my walker. It is very easy to use and very comfortable. There is no effort; this is the big thing. You didn't have to strain. I think the chair is great! It is so easy to operate. You just move a little bit and it start doing what it should do and therefore encourages you to get in it.

Question: How do you feel about Range of Motion?
Answer: Arthritis has caught my left arm quite a bit lately. It has been quite stiff and think if I had a chair like this to use it would get the muscles going again.

Question: Could you tell a difference when you used the chair with your arthritic arm?
Answer: Oh yes. Because my arm is easier to use. I can do more than I could do otherwise.

Question: Were you in pain using the chair?
Answer: Not at all. Not at all. To tell you the truth, both legs were bothering me before I got here.

Question: So your legs quit hurting after you got in the chair?
Answer: Oh, yeah, they feel real good right now. Right around my knee is where all the breaks are and stuff and when I touch it, it would hurt. I can touch it right now and it hurts, but sometimes the whole leg is just so sore.

Question: But before you got here, you were concerned about getting in the chair?
Answer: Yeah, I really was because I had the pain in my leg, what I call the spasm pains, and you never know when they're coming and they're so much fun, because they're just there and you [cry of pain]. You get a spasm in your leg and you want to go right through the ceiling, but we pretty much got that under control now, but there's just certain days with the arthritis kicking in, and everything else that the legs just plain hurt. The chair gave me incentive to want to try harder.

Question: After you sat in the Exodus I Range or Motion stationary chair and the Exodus II Range of Motion wheelchair, how do your legs feel now?
Answer: Well, they feel better.

Question: So something on a daily basis, if you had the chair, would you be in the chair?
Answer: Oh, yeah. I would be sure. And I would exercise so long, and I would go do something else and come back to it, which would be nice. I think they both are really serviceable and for the needs, I think it's really a wonderful idea.

Ann Moulton
Quitman, GA

I am a retired Professor of Pathology and am fully familiar with the benefits of exercise of the cardiovascular system. I am also 79 years old and fully aware of the limitations which arthritis and impaired balance place on my ability to exercise. Imagine how happy I was to find out about this chair--a chair which enables me to exercise as much or as little as I want, in comfort and safety, without having to leave my home. In this chair, I can work my arms, legs, back and trunk, all without causing any pain, and without any danger of falling. The exercise is gentle and as thorough as I want it to be, which means that on days when I have plenty of energy, I can exercise as hard as I wish to, and on days when I'm feeling tired, I can exercise lightly--and in both cases, my cardiovascular system gets a workout, and my muscles limber up and strengthen. This is a wonderful invention for those of us who have difficulty getting around as much as we'd like to, and who need a form of exercise that we can control right in our own homes.

Joseph Baum, Ph.D.