Canadian Seating and Mobility Conference: Providing Movement for Clinical Benefit
This course will define dynamic seating, as well as the clinical benefits of this intervention. A variety of product options and features will be reviewed to better match these features to a specific client’s needs.
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Cerebral Palsy: What Falls Under The Umbrella?
Many people with cerebral palsy who use a wheelchair can benefit from Dynamic Seating to provide movement, absorbing forces from increased muscle tone and movement patterns. With this in mind, it is important to understand that advances in medical testing have led to changes in how we understand this diagnosis.
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Dyllie – Maintaining Position and Increasing Seating Tolerance Down Under
Dyllie is a 25 year old man with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy who has been using Seating Dynamics Dynamic Footrests, Dynamic Rocker Back, and Dynamic Head Support Hardware for 8 months at the time of this case study.
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Newly Designed Dynamic Footrests! It’s all about the Pivot Point!
Dynamic Seating components are designed to move with a client. A great deal of design goes into these components to ensure the product responds to client forces and maintains client position.
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Tech Tip: Using the Footrest Swing Away Function
In this quick tip, JJ illustrates how to use the swing away function on Dynamic and Static Footrests. This feature allows you “swing away” and even remove, if necessary, the footrests.
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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.
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Dyllie: Dynamic Seating Head, Back and Foot Components
Dyllie is a 25 year old man with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy who has been using Seating Dynamics Dynamic Footrests (telescoping, elevating, and plantar/dorsi flexion), Dynamic Rocker Back, and Dynamic Head Support Hardware for 8 months.
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International Seating Symposium 2023
Seating Dynamics was happy to exhibit at the 38th International Seating Symposium (ISS) this year in Pittsburgh! With approximately 2500 participants from 35 countries and over 100 exhibitors, the Convention Center was busy!
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Clinician Interview: Becky Breaux, MS, OTR/L, ATP
Becky Breaux is a research senior instructor / assistive technology specialist at the Assistive Technology Clinic, part of the Center for Inclusive Design and Engineering (CIDE) at the University of Colorado in Denver.
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How 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.
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