For those currently struggling with patients in poor sitting positions, whether it is in a skilled nursing facility, acute care center, home health setting or elsewhere, this recording is a must!
Kirsten Davin & Trisha Farmer – Let’s Roll! The Art of Performing Seating & Mobility Evaluations
Incorporating Assistive Technology
An estimated 1.6 million Americans utilize assistive technology to achieve improved independence. For health care workers, the responsibility of evaluating clients, determining needs, and seeking out the most appropriate form of assistive technology, such as powered mobility, augmentative or assistive communication technology, wheelchair seating systems, and more can often be quite intimidating.
Back by popular demand and all new! Dr. Davin has designed this recording to provide health care professionals and therapists with a working knowledge of performing seating and mobility evaluations, troubleshooting existing seating systems, as well as the skills to incorporate assistive technology into therapeutic practice to increase their client’s independence. Evaluation and assessment techniques and procedures will be presented, including common diagnoses which often warrant alternative mobility, controls or other forms of assistive technology. Information regarding a variety of cutting edge equipment, including mobility bases, seating and positioning options will be reviewed, as well as the abundance of features which may be obtained to increase the client’s overall functional independence. Funding sources will be identified, and participants will receive detailed instruction regarding the development of letters of medical necessity, as well as key elements to include in such documents for equipment approval.
For those currently struggling with patients in poor sitting positions, whether it is in a skilled nursing facility, acute care center, home health setting or elsewhere, this recording is a must!
Confidently troubleshoot a variety of wheelchair seating and positioning issues for patients in a multitude of settings
Receive an arsenal of information on equipment options, cushions, backs, quick fixes and other seating and positioning products to better your patient
Identify the appropriate assistive technology devices required to meet the client’s needs
Explain the many intricacies of performing a seating and mobility evaluation and how to best integrate this evaluation into therapeutic practice
Identify successful methods of documenting and obtaining funding for assistive technology
Create an original letter of medical necessity to obtain funding for various forms of assistive technology
Review a variety of common etiologies and pathologies which may necessitate assistive technology
OVERVIEW OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT
Power wheelchairs
Center, front, and rear wheel drive chair comparison
Turning radius, environmental benefits/liabilities
Manual wheelchairs
Standard, lightweight, and ultra-lightweight chair comparison
Turning radius, environmental benefits/liabilities
Bariatric wheelchairs, seating systems and product lines
Seating systems
Overview of cushion types
Comparison and selection algorithm
New, cost efficient and, easy-to-implement equipment
Seating accessories
Augmentative and alternative communication
Easy to implement, tech friendly options
PERFORMANCE OF THE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (SEATING/MOBILITY) EVALUATION
Referral process
Client assessment process
Evaluate client’s current equipment
Obtain client’s medical and functional history
Home environment
Physical assessment
Obtainment of anthropometric measurements
Hands-on measurement lab
Measurement application to troubleshooting
Identification of orthopedic deformities
Review of sample evaluation (case study example)
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EQUIPMENT SELECTION PROCESS
Determine the appropriate equipment based upon client’s needs and presentation
Equipment algorithms
Alternative equipment options for low budget situations
DEVELOPING THE LETTER OF MEDICAL NECESSITY TO OBTAIN FUNDING
Design of letter of medical necessity
Review of sample letter of medical necessity
TROUBLESHOOTING THE CLIENT’S CURRENT EQUIPMENT
Extensive review of a multitude of problem seating situations with solutions!
Forward flexion, “pulling out” of wheelchair (w/c), “sliding forward” from seating system, lateral leaning in w/c, and more!
Low cost options to improving the client’s current equipment
An abundance of case studies, images and solutions to your toughest seating issues!
CLOSING, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
