Posts Tagged ‘Equipment Breakage’
Clinician Interview: Brain Power!
I had the privilege to present with a group of colleagues on Dynamic Seating at the International Seating Symposium last year. One of my co-presenters was Suzanne Eason, OT/L who works at St. Mary’s Home in Virginia. Suzanne is very interested in the impact of movement on brain development. I recently had a conversation with my friend.
Continue ReadingDaniel – Managing High Tone Through Dynamic Seating
Daniel is a young man with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy and seizures. Daniel has high tone in his extremities and low tone in his trunk and neck. His tone is so extreme that he has broken components of his wheelchair frame in the past as well as dislocated both of his elbows and ruptured…
Continue ReadingJoe – Maintaining Position and Reducing Extension
Joe is a teenager with very high muscle tone and strong patterns of movement due to brain injury as an infant. See how Dynamic Seating has helped him maintain position, reduce extension, and improve function.
Continue ReadingKylie – Breakage, Pressure and Cute Shoes
Kylie is a young woman who lives in Wyoming and works in the theatre. Kylie has cerebral palsy and has used a power wheelchair and speech generating device since a young age. She has recently started using dynamic seating. On her power chair, Kylie uses a Seating Dynamics Dynamic Rocker Back interface (DRBi), Seating Dynamics…
Continue ReadingEddie – Diffuse Force and Prevent Equipment Breakage
Eddie is a 16 year old young man with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy and epilepsy. He lives at home with his family in Illinois. He has increased muscle tone throughout his body and often exhibits very forceful and large movements. He frequently displays a rocking movement within his wheelchair, as well. Eddie is non-ambulatory…
Continue ReadingDynamic Seating Decision Making Tree
A general Decision Making Tree, guiding the provider through clinical indicators for dynamic seating. Download to read more.
Continue ReadingDerrick – Meeting Multiple Needs through Dynamic Seating
Derrick is a 42 year old male who resides in a group home with 24 other non-ambulatory, yet socially active, adults. Derrick is primarily a power wheelchair user; however he relies on a manual mobility base for use in the community. His power wheelchair does not fit in the van’s tie down system and so…
Continue ReadingRobert – Living Life Instead of Repairing a Wheelchair
Robert is a Dynamic Seating old-timer. This 27 year old man has been using Dynamic Seating for about 10 years now. He first began using Dynamic Seating when a change in funding prompted the order for a new manual wheelchair and his therapists at California Children’s Services (CCS) along with Betsy McKone (then of Rehab…
Continue ReadingLet’s Get Moving! Providing Movement Within a Wheelchair Seating System
Michelle L. Lange, OTR/L, ABDA, ATP/SMS – Exceptional Parent
Lack of movement within a wheelchair leaves a child in a static sitting position for extended periods of time. Learn more about how dynamic seating can help.
Continue ReadingDynamic Seating: The Results are In!
Michelle L. Lange, OTR/L, ABDA, ATP/SMS – Mobility Management
A survey of 100 was completed to get a sense of the number of professionals using dynamic seating.
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