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The seat you can get into, and then can't get back out of.
Corbel is a handhold that goes into the steel striker loop on your door frame, so you come up on your arm and your weight goes into the body of the car — not into the door.
Every car has a striker loop, and the tapered tip is made for the fact that they differ — it wedges and stops itself where it gets tight. A handful of unusual shapes aren't a fit.
There is nothing to measure and nothing to look up. Open your door, set the tip into the loop and put your weight on it standing in your own driveway. It either sets tight or it doesn't, and you'll know in about two seconds.
If it isn't right for your car, send it back and we return your money.Take it out to the car once.
You'll know on the first trip whether standing up was easier or not, and that is the only thing worth judging it by. If it wasn't, you have thirty days to send it back for your money.
The ride home from the hospital, and every trip after
Three moves, all of them done sitting down, on the side they operated on. No tools, nothing to install, nothing left in the car.
Before you swing your legs out — while the new hip is still where you left it — reach across to the steel loop on the frame and push the tip in. It stops itself where it gets tight.
Hold it like the grab bar they had you put in the bathroom, and come up through your arm instead of pushing off with the hip they operated on. Your weight goes into the frame of the car, not the door.
It lifts straight back out and lives in your door pocket or your bag — so it's there for the drive to therapy, in whoever's car is taking you this week.
It goes into the striker — the steel loop bolted to the frame of the doorway, the one your door catches on when you shut it. Your weight goes into the frame of the car, not into the door.
Physiotherapy perspective
Four practical points about support, grip and stability during the movement out of a car seat.
David Thompson
Hip & Joint Rehabilitation
“Getting out of a car asks a lot from the hips at one very specific moment: rising from the seat. Corbel gives the hand a solid, naturally positioned place to support that movement, so the upper body can help as you come to standing.”
Robert Anderson
Post-Operative Mobility
“What I like about the Corbel design is that the support is already in place before you begin to stand. You can position it while seated, establish your grip, and then use that support through the entire movement out of the car.”
Christopher Johnson
Hip Recovery
“For someone rebuilding confidence after hip surgery, a simple and predictable setup matters. Corbel creates an accessible handhold right beside the seat, exactly where it can be useful during the transition from sitting to standing.”
James Mitchell
Hip Recovery & Mobility
“The wedge-shaped tip is a thoughtful part of the Corbel design. It seats into the striker as it is inserted, creating a firm point of support before the person begins to rise from the seat.”
Asked by everyone getting out of a car on a new hip
No. Nothing touches your door. It goes into the striker, the steel loop bolted to the frame that your door catches on when you shut it. Your weight goes into the body of the car — so you aren't choosing between the hip and the paintwork.
Where this comes fromA man asked a mechanics forum the same thing about his father. Most of them said the striker is regulated and rated for a great deal of weight, because it holds the door shut in a crash. A couple of them argued about it.
Before you order
It never touches the door. It sits in the striker, the steel loop bolted to the frame that your door catches on when you close it, so your weight goes into the body of the car and not into a panel on hinges.
Almost certainly. Every car has a striker loop, and the tapered tip is made for the fact that they differ — it wedges and stops itself where it gets tight instead of needing one exact size. Sedan, SUV, pickup, new or twenty years old. A handful of unusual shapes aren't a fit, so open your door, compare the loop with the close-up photographs above, and send it back if it isn't right for your car.
No. Getting up out of a car seat is getting up out of a car seat, whether you're six weeks post-op, two years past it, or living with a hip nobody has replaced yet. Nothing about it is tied to a recovery window, and nothing stops working once you're walking well again.
Neither. No tools, nothing drilled, nothing bolted on. You set it from the seat before you start moving, which is the part that matters in the first weeks after surgery, then take it out once you're up and keep it in your door pocket.
Any door with a striker loop, which is all of them: driver's side, passenger side, front or back. The front passenger seat is usually the one you're told to take on the way home, and it works there too — as it does in your daughter's car, a rental or a taxi.
Shipping is free and you have thirty days to send it back for your money. Thirty days is plenty, because you will know on the first trip.
From people who bought it for one thing: getting back out of the car without pushing off the hip.