Posts Tagged ‘seizures’
Jozie Rocks | Finding the Right Resistance for a Dynamic Rocker Back
These videos show how important it is to have a variety of elastomers on when installing a Dynamic Rocker Back. Different resistances are needed by different clients or dynamic seating won’t work as intended.
Continue ReadingDarcy – Reducing Agitation and Providing Sensory Input through Movement
See how a Dynamic Rocker Back has not only satisfied Darcy’s need to rock in his wheelchair, but improved safety, sitting tolerance, function and decreased equipment breakage.
Continue ReadingJohn – Equipment Breakage and a Two-Pronged Approach
John was shaken as a baby and has a brain injury, hydrocephalus, and uncontrolled seizures (Lennox Gestaut syndrome). Learn how Dynamic Seating helps him move, stay safe and reduce equipment breakage to his wheelchair.
Continue ReadingFaith – Seeking Movement
Faith is a 9-year-old girl with diagnoses including brain injury, cerebral palsy, seizures and blindness. She loves sensory input, including rocking in her manual wheelchair.
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 ReadingDynamic Seating & Self-Propulsion: An interview with Joe Gilkerson
Joe Gilkerson, ATP, works with Numotion in Salisbury, Maryland. I had a wonderful phone conversation with him recently in which he shared some dynamic seating experiences he has had with one of his clients, Blake and his journey to self propulsion.
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