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Spinal Seating Professional Development Program

Upcoming Spinal Seating Workshops

  • The Spinal Seating Workshops for 2011 have not yet been scheduled

Welcome to the Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT) NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service (SSCIS) education website for seating and wheeled mobility. The site has been established to assist health professionals gain knowledge, confidence and understanding in the practice of seating and wheeled mobility prescription. The site's audience is health professional graduate and students working with people who have acquired a spinal cord injury or similar neurological condition.

This education resource has been established as a component of Spinal Seating Professional Development Program, funded by GMCT. Other components of the program include developing a broader network of health professionals and rehabilitation engineers who assess and prescribe seating and wheel mobility, improving competency, developing specialist education sessions and standardisation within the SSCIS specialist seating and wheeled mobility services.

The SSCIS Seating Service provides practical workshop to gain experiential skills and the modules of this site are part of the workshop pre-reading. It is strongly recommended that health professionals participate in hands on workshops lead by clinical experts as an adjunct to didactic and theory based learning.

The project team hope this site is informative and inspires health professionals to continue to network and consult with clients and colleagues, and to gain further knowledge in this interesting and complex area of clinical practice.

The SSCIS is part of the Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT) a Ministerial Advisory Group to the NSW Minster of Health and a NSW Health Priority Taskforce Australia.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the following people and organisations for their professional contributions to the development of this website.

  • Charisse Turnbull
  • David G Andrews
  • Adrian Byak
  • Pamela Reeves
  • Emma Friesen
  • The SSCIS Seating Working Party
  • Independent Rehabilitation Supplier Association
  • University of New South Wales
  • The Queensland Spinal Cord Injury Service
  • Enable NSW

 

We would also like to thank our national and international colleagues for their invaluable comments and advice about the website.

 

We would also appreciate your comments about the site so we can revise and continue to improve it. Please contact us via the GMCT - State Spinal Cord injury Website.

Commercial Endorsement

Within the study modules on this site commercial product names are used. This does not imply any endorsement, support for the products or commercial gain by the State Spinal Cord Injury Service, NSW Health or the State of New South Wales.

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This web page is managed and authorised by Agency for Clinical Innovation. Last updated: 13 January, 2011