Free CEU 2/12: Maintaining Posture by Providing Movement
Join OT Michelle Lange for "Maintaining Posture by Providing Movement" for wheelchair users with pending IACET CEUs provided by NRRTS as an authorized provider.
Date/Time
LIVE February 12, 4pm MT / 6pm EST
Description
A primary goal of wheelchair seating is to maintain the client’s optimal seated posture. As many clients extend against typically static surfaces and move within the seating system, posture is often lost, and the client needs to be repositioned. For clients with increased muscle tone, large and forceful movements, or rocking tendencies, contact is lost between the client’s body and the seating surfaces, resulting in suboptimal positions, such as a posterior pelvic tilt, when extension or movement ceases. While perhaps counterintuitive, providing movement within the seating system, using Dynamic Seating, can allow client movement and return their body to a neutral seated position. This course will dive deep into exactly how clients lose optimal posture within their seating systems and how to maintain posture through movement.
Learning Objectives
The participant will be able to:
1. Identify 3 factors which lead to loss of position within a wheelchair seating system.
2. Describe how Dynamic Seating can successfully return a client to their optimal seated posture, despite large and forceful movement.
3. List 3 specific Dynamic Seating product features that help maintain client posture.
Presenter
Michelle L. Lange, OTR/L, ATP/SMS
Presenter Bio
Michelle Lange is an occupational therapist with over 38 years of experience and has been in private practice, Access to Independence, for over 19 years. She is a well-respected lecturer, both nationally and internationally, and has authored numerous texts, chapters, and articles. She is the co-editor of Seating and Wheeled Mobility: a clinical resource guide (1st & 2nd eds). Michelle is a RESNA Fellow and member of the Clinician Task Force. Michelle is a RESNA certified ATP and SMS.
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NRRTSCE is certifying the educational contact hours of the program and by doing so is in no way endorsing any specific content, company, or product. The information presented in this program may represent only a sample of appropriate interventions. As an IACET Accredited Provider, The National Registry of Rehabilitation Technology Suppliers offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.
We need people to understand that all clients with tone or strength asymmetries can use this movement to reposition themselves, especially in a tilted posture where gravity is not as dominant. Adding any ability to access movement also reduces anxiety. Anxiety leads to a sense of lost autonomy and isolation. Movement helps to open up their world, and this mitigates the health risks that are caused by anxiety and depression.
Excellent points, Stan! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Michelle. I would love to listen and learn from you. Will this be recorded? Reason I ask is due to the time difference with Ireland.
Thank you so much.
Sharon
Sharon, all of our live webinars are also recorded and available on-demand several days after the live event. This is particularly helpful for our listeners outside the United States!
Thanks for all the education YOU provide and I always learn from you!
Michelle