Dynamic Seating: Why, Who, and How?
Program ID Number: CRS000261
CEU Course ID: P231.11
Webinar Length of Time: 1 hour
Recorded Date: Recorded at the International Seating Symposium on March 5, 2011
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Presenters
Suzanne Eason, OTL, St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children, Norfolk, VA, United States
Note: Faculty for this activity have been required to disclose all relationships with any proprietary entity producing health care goods or services, with the exemption of nonprofit or government organizations and non-healthcare related companies.
* No conflicts have been disclosed.
Description
Neuroscience has made leaps and bounds in understanding how the brain functions, specifically in the area of neuroplasticity. It has broadened our understanding that intentional movement is important and essential for learning and development, especially in a brain that has been damaged. Research has shown increase in neural connections and function when movement is allowed or encouraged. All movement – including posturing, reflexive and refined – is intended for some purpose by that individual. Can movement be accommodated in a seating system to encourage nueroplasticity?
How does that thought translate into everyday seating systems and bases? Most manual wheelchairs and their adaptive seating systems are static, stabilizing the individual for better head and extremity movement. All of these individuals need some form of stabilization, as we all do, but do we overstabilize? And can the seating system be changed easily and regularly as intended by the user for more or less self-actuated movement? Those who would benefit most from a system that they could move in would be people who have acquired a brain injury from, for example, cerebral palsy, a cerebral vascular accident or a traumatic brain injury.
In the last decade, medical equipment manufacturers have devised some fabulous dynamic solutions for a manual seating system, which will be reviewed. There also are more customized components that can be fabricated and/or adapted to allow for movement, which will also be reviewed. Finally, how can we as a dynamic community utilize the above information to discover a wider variety of moving components?
Learning Objectives
Upon viewing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand why some movement in a seating system and frame benefits neuroplasticity.
- Determine who may benefit from dynamic seating and frames.
- Identify manufactures who have dynamic seating and frames and ideas for customized dynamic seating systems and frames
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