Clinical Indicators and Assessment
How Footplate Rotation Reduces Knee and Ankle Forces
Michelle L. Lange, OTR/L, ATP/SMS Footplate Rotation is the latest option on the Seating Dynamics Dynamic Footrest. This blog takes a closer look at what happens to the knee and ankle joints during footplate rotation including joint movement and force. While I love to dive into lower extremity anatomy and physics, which I can really…
Continue ReadingEarly Intervention: don’t wait for the break!
When is the right time to consider dynamic seating with a child? Explore clinical indicators and proactive planning.
Continue ReadingFAQ: What Happens to Posture with Hip Extension?
In a recent Seating Dynamics webinar, Maintaining Posture by Providing Movement, OT Michelle Lange asks the participants to extend at their hips while sitting and to note what changed in their posture.
Continue ReadingFAQ: What causes loss of position within a wheelchair seating system?
Dynamic Footrests feature 4 distinct movements, telescoping, knee extension, ankle plantar/dorsi flexion and now footplate rotation!
Continue ReadingCanadian Seating and Mobility Conference – Toronto 2024
The Canadian Seating and Mobility Conference was held on September 10-11th in Toronto and was a great success! Over 600 people attended CSMC which offered a strong line-up of sessions and an impressive, and busy, exhibit hall. The Seating Dynamics exhibit hall booth was packed each day. Nancy Schmidt and Gavriela Guerrero of Freedom Designs…
Continue ReadingClinical Indicators: Maintaining Posture by Providing Movement
Dynamic Seating has many clinical indicators, including reducing active client extension, preventing client pain and injury, preventing equipment breakage, providing movement, and improving postural control, stability, and function.
Continue ReadingHow Do I Learn More About Seating and Wheeled Mobility?
One of the most common questions people ask is how to increase their knowledge in the area of Seating and Wheeled Mobility. The answer, in part, depends on your learning style and preferences.
Continue ReadingWhole Body Extensor Spasms and Dynamic Seating
In the past, whole body extensor spasms were often referred to as an Extensor Thrust or Extensor Thrust pattern. Whole Body Extensor Spasms is a recently introduced term which is more descriptive of what is actually happening to the body.
Continue ReadingHow Young Is Too Young? Dynamic Seating and Age
In a previous blog , we addressed how to accommodate client growth when using Dynamic Seating components. In this blog, we will address how early Dynamic Seating should be introduced with our youngest clients.
Continue ReadingWhy Don’t We Use Sub-ASIS Bars Anymore?
Sub-ASIS bars are still available, though certainly not used frequently. To the point that a seating and wheeled mobility specialist could be shunned for using one. Why? What changed?
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