Finding the Best Answer When Different Technology Choices Are the Question
Matching the best mobility technology to individual SCI clients.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Oct 01, 2010
Cover Feature
Why Clients Feel Discomfort, How It Impacts Function & How Providers Can Help
Understanding and pinpointing a seating & mobility client’s pain can be among the biggest challenges a provider or clinician faces. It’s also crucial to maximizing a client’s function and compliance. Here’s how to get started…and follow through.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Sep 01, 2010
The Physics, the Indications & How Recline Can Work with (While Differing from) Tilt
More than just a supplement to tilt, recline is a unique positioning option with its own benefits, indications and contraindications. Plus: The funding picture for recline.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Aug 01, 2010
Creating Seating & Mobility that Fits Today & Tomorrow
Creating growable seating & mobility requires great communications skills
as well as the ability to predict a child’s future needs. Here’s how to build
systems that fit great today and tomorrow. PLUS: Pediatric funding.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Aug 01, 2010
- By Jim Stephenson
- Jul 01, 2010
Consumer Survey
Consumers on: Assistive Technology, Where They Bought It, How They Like It...& What They Think of This Industry
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Jun 01, 2010
Understanding the Unique Clinical, Accessibility & Funding Challenges
When creating bariatric seating & mobility systems, it’s not just a case of bigger being better…or clinically appropriate. Here’s why this patient population can benefit from customized solutions.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Jun 01, 2010
Beds & Support Surfaces
A primer on how to choose the right products to sell and service.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- May 01, 2010
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — aka, Lou Gehrig’s Disease — has no cure, but its unpredictability, varying types of progression and widely differing presentations challenge providers to provide customized, timely solutions.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- May 01, 2010
Seating and Positioning Series
The Physics & Benefits of Standing for Wheelchair Users
The act of being upright, to stand or to gait train, can offer a range of physical, cognitive, social and emotional benefits. Here’s why.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Apr 01, 2010