Category: Seating Pressure Mapping

Seating Pressure Mapping

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Pressure Injury Risk Reduction

A balancing act between pressure and mobility form the foundation of interventions for the outpatient clinician. A feature for Rehab Management by Quyen Nguyen Catania, PT, DPT, CWS, CLT.

Seating Pressure Mapping

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Getting the Right Fit: Seating and Positioning

The importance of core assessment and its correlation to seating success, pressure relief, and skin breakdown prevention is reviewed in this feature for Rehab Management by Kirsten N. Davin, OTDR/L, ATP, SMS.

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Safe Sitting Time is Focus of Amit Gefen's November 8 Keynote Speech

A keynote presentation titled “The Etiology of Pressure Injuries: Deformation is a Cell Killer,” by Amit Gefen, B Sc in Mechanical Engineering, MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, will highlight a 1-day conference November 8 at the L’Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Park in Sydney, Australia.

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An Alternative to Custom-Molded Positioning Backrests

Finding a custom-molded backrest for children affected by multiple physical disabilities is not always easy. Listen to this podcast to learn how backrests with varied-size air cell technology can easily adjust to accommodate a client’s size changes, and eliminate excessive pressure.

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Considerations in Pediatric Mobility

The what, when, why, and how of decision-making when choosing a device. Article written by Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center staff members Bobbi Ann Jurena, MOT, OTR/L, Briana D. McClintock, MS, OTR/L, and Shannon E. Spady, PT, MPT.

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