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Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – Allowing Movement

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Dynamic Seating moves in response to client forces. Many clients move, not due to increased extensor tone, but rather for the explicit purpose of moving. We all tend to seek out movement. We are wired to move, and movement has so many benefits.

Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – Preventing Equipment Damage

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The forces from extension on a static wheelchair seat and frame can be so strong as to cause damage to equipment. Hardware used to mount the seating system and components (such as a head support), are particularly susceptible to damage.

Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – General Clinical Indicators

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Dynamic seating has many potential applications. Dynamic components absorb and diffuse force, protecting the wheelchair user from injury caused by sustained and/or repeated forces and reducing damage to the seating system and wheelchair.

Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – Absorbing and Diffusing Force

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Many clients using wheelchair seating have increased muscle tone. This can lead to active extension, particularly at the hips, knees, and neck.

Quick Class: What is Dynamic Seating?

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Definitions and terminology may not seem very exciting but are very important. It is critical that we each know exactly what assistive technology or intervention is being recommended or used. In this video, Michelle Lange presents a definition and explains What is Dynamic Seating?

Quick Class: Maintaining Posture in a Wheelchair by Providing Movement with Dynamic Seating

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Explore why clients lose their posture in a wheelchair & how Dynamic Seating can help.

Numotion: Dynamic Seating: Myth Busters

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You can’t get that funded! If the client can move, they will just extend more! Or they will move out of position! And, there isn’t any evidence that this intervention is beneficial. Are these facts or myths? Michelle Lange presented this Numotion webinar on July 21, 2020 and busted these myths!

Apexpo Wheelchair Seating & Mobility Assistive Technology Expo: Dynamic Seating

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OT Michelle Lange and other Assistive Technology professionals presented April 29-30 for the Apexpo 2021 on wheelchair seating and mobility.

FREE CEU: Introduction to Dynamic Seating for Wheelchairs

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Join OT Michelle Lange for An Introduction to Dynamic Seating for Wheelchairs with IACET CEUs provided by iNRRTS as an authorized provider.

International Seating Symposium: RESNA Position Paper Presentation on Dynamic Seating

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Michelle Lange and Barbara Crane presented this instructional session at the International Seating Symposium in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 6, 2020.