The Abilities International Accessibility Conference — the professional conference arm of the Abilities Expo show series — has announced 2027 dates and venues. Next year, the conference will be at the Long Beach (California) Convention Center on Jan. 13-14, and at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center on April 29-30. Both educational conferences will…
Abilities International Accessibility Conference Announces 2027 Dates
ISS 2027 Opens Call for Abstracts
The 40th International Seating Symposium takes place March 30-April 2, 2027.
The International Seating Symposium (ISS) has opened its call for abstracts for the 2027 conference taking place March 31-April 2 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Pre-ISS workshops take place March 30. In its July 22 announcement, the ISS said the deadline for paper presentations (15 minutes), short course presentations (30 minutes)…
New Webinar: The Impact of Anti-Fraud Measures on DME, Home Health, Hospice Providers
June 23 event will discuss how Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ actions are affecting businesses and patients.
Mobility Management and HME Business will bring together experts from durable medical equipment (DME), home health and hospice to discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recent anti-fraud measures — and how Medicare beneficiaries in all three segments are being impacted. The June 23 webinar — Fraud in Focus: What CMS’s Moratoria and…
Commentary: Appreciating CRT’s Beating Heart
Seeing last week’s Chicago Abilities Expo and Abilities International Accessibility Conference with fresh eyes.
I entered the Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) industry in January 2002. I’m proud of my tenure, of launching Mobility Management, a publication devoted entirely and only to seating and wheeled mobility, and growing it through recessions and countless policy changes. But because of my experience, it had been a long time since I’ve seen this…
Abilities International Accessibility Conference Heads to Chicago in June
The conference is offering special registration pricing this week to commemorate Global Accessibility Awareness day.
After making its debut in March in Long Beach, California, then arriving in Edison, New Jersey, at the end of April, the Abilities International Accessibility Conference heads to the Chicago area June 11-12. The conference, taking place at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, features two educational tracks — Improving Patient Outcomes and Adapted Living —…
Mobility Management Webinar: Optimizing Reimbursement with Clinical, Intake Best Practices
The presentation, sponsored by ACU-Serve, is free to attend.
Yes, wheels make the wheelchair go round in Complex Rehab Technology — but getting those wheels rolling requires proper reimbursement. And that reimbursement hinges on providing the right documentation in an efficient and accurate way. Our May 19 webinar — Clinical and Intake Best Practices: Optimizing Reimbursement, sponsored by ACU-Serve, will discuss the best ways…
Manual Wheelchair Skills Peer-Coaching Study Seeks Participants
The University of Pittsburgh project is being led by Principal Investigator Lynn Worobey.
A new research study using virtual coaching to teach manual wheelchair skills is seeking participants. The University of Pittsburgh project, led by Principal Investigator Lynn Worobey, Ph.D., DPT, ATP, will match peer coaches with participants who are at least 18 years old; have a non-progressive spinal cord injury; can speak and read English; reside in…
Manual Wheelchair Skills Courses Now Available for Clients, Caregivers, Professionals
The free courses focus on teaching skills to maximize independence in a range of scenarios.
Moving efficiently through a less-than-accessible world requires more than just an optimally fit wheelchair. Wheelchair riders also need the skills to use their mobility devices in a number of situations, from curbs to ramps, small spaces and thresholds. The latest series added to the Wheelchair Skills Program is a free-to-learn collection of self-directed, web-based manual…
Shepherd Center Webinar to Demonstrate WC-FIT Assessment Tool
The Feb. 17 presentation is free to attend.
The Wheelchair Functional Impact Tool (WC-FIT) has an illustrious origin story, having been developed by Shepherd Center seating and wheeled mobility clinicians, including Mandy McDonald, MS, OTL, ATP, and Tori Fallgren, PT, DPT, NCS, ATP, as well as Stephen Sprigle, Ph.D., PT, professor of the School of Industrial Design & School of Mechanical Engineering, the…
The Art & Science of the First Fit
Behind the WC-FIT configuration tool for seating teams.
Configuring a client’s first wheelchair is like facing a blank canvas: full of promise, but sometimes too full of possibilities. With that in mind, the Wheelchair Functional Impact Tool (WC-FIT) bridges gaps that can occur from a lack of experience on the client’s side, as well as potentially a lack of wheelchair assessment experience on…