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The Gross Motor Function Classification System

The Gross Motor Function Classification System – Expanded & Revised (GMFCS – E&R) is a tool to measure gross motor function of children and young people with cerebral palsy. This tool is typically used from infancy through 18 years of age.

Jozie – Reducing Resistance to Allow Rocking

Jozie is a 3 1/2 year old girl with the diagnosis of epilepsy and West Syndrome (also known as infantile spasms syndrome).

Mitch – Extending in the Shower

Mitch extends with force, primarily at the hips. His wheelchair has dynamic components, but what happens when he is extending in the shower?

Naomi – Dynamic Seating, Positioning & PWC Driving

Learn how Naomi has used Dynamic Seating to control her power wheelchair, reduce injury and equipment breakage and maintain her position within several different seating systems.

Chris – Dynamic Seating & Huntington’s Disease

Christopher is a 60 year old man with the diagnosis of Huntington’s Disease. See how a Dynamic Back and Dynamic Footrest have improved his seating solution.

Alex – Accommodating Large, Forceful Movements in a Wheelchair

Check out this Dynamic Seating Case study on large, forceful movements in a wheelchair.

Danny – Fulfilling a Need to Rock and Decrease Agitation

Danny is a young man with autism, sensory processing disorder, & global developmental delays. While in his wheelchair, he rocks with force, seeking sensory stimuli. See how dynamic seating helps.

Lochlann – Supporting Extensor Tone

Lochlann has strong extension and dystonia and also seeks out movement. A dynamic back and dynamic head support diffuse these forces and allow movement.

Kristen – Extension and Equipment Breakage

Kristen is a 31 year old woman with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy. She has involvement in both legs and one upper extremity, with more involvement in the lower extremities (Triplegia).

Supplier Interview: Andy Foster, OTR, ATP, CRTS

Andy has been in the Seating and Mobility field for about 25 years. Growing up in Jackson, WY as a pastor’s kid, he helped out with the Special Olympics.