Student builds device to help her mother get dressed more easily

Paula wants to work in hand therapy at a skilled nursing facility after she graduates.

The student’s mother, who struggles with carpal tunnel syndrome, has a hard time dressing by herself because of her condition, which causes her hands to hurt.

The Pants Puller-Upper is a homemade solution, made of wire hangers, duct tape, clasps and popsicle sticks. It consists of wire hangers wrapped with duct tape that attaches to a pair of pants with clasps, much like suspenders. To address the difficulty of using the clasps that someone with her mother’s limitations would have, the inventor modified them with popsicle sticks so they could easily be opened and closed, similar to the flipping of a light switch.

It works by being attached to a pair of pants and acts as a pair of easy to hold handles.

The solution cost about 15 USD to develop.

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