Seating Dynamics Rotational Footplates
Sometimes when a wheelchair user’s lower extremity is extended, rotation at the ankles might turn the feet outward. These rotational footplates rotate outward in response.
Can Your Wheelchair Move Like This?
Watch this quick overview of how dynamic seating can work for wheelchair users, and the clinical benefits it provides through movement.
LIVE CEU September 9: Muscle Tone and Tone Management: Dynamic Seating Intervention
Join OT Michelle Lange for this free CEU accredited webinar on Muscle Tone and Tone Management: Dynamic Seating Intervention.
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?
CSMC Course: Let’s Get Moving! A Series of Dynamic Seating Case Studies
Join OTR Michelle Lange at the Canadian Seating & Mobility Conference for an interactive dynamic seating case study program.
2nd Edition of Seating and Wheeled Mobility: a Clinical Resource Guide
Seating and Wheeled Mobility: a Clinical Resource has been expanded to 774 pages, including 537 color pictures, 178 illustrations and 8 new chapters across a wide array of topics.
Literature Review on Dynamic Wheelchair Seating
Our literature review on Dynamic Seating includes over 200 peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed articles, presentations and proceedings, design articles,…
Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – Maintenance
Most items need a certain level of maintenance. What about Dynamic Seating components? The answer is, “Yes!” All that force and movement will, eventually, wear down the elastomers. Depending on the degree of force and frequency of movement, the elastomers may have to be changed more frequently for some clients than for others.
Quick Class: Dynamic Seating – Footrest Resistance
The optimal level of resistance is critical to the functioning of Dynamic Footrests. In this Quick Class, we will review how to determine resistance at the telescoping and elevating features.
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.