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Module 10 - Power Mobility
Module 10 - Power Mobility
Indications for power mobility assessment and interventions
- clients with SCI undergoing rehabilitation and requiring power mobility as a mobility aid
- clients unable to independently perform an effective weight shift and who require power seating functions as part of pressure ulcer prevention and management
- significant functional limitations, postural asymmetry and deformity that prevent effective manual wheelchair mobility
- significant weight loss or gain
- a change in functional mobility status
- a change in the ability to use the input or control devices to operate the power mobility device
- upper limb pain impacting on the efficiency of wheeled propulsion
- replacement of powered mobility
- wheelchair safety concerns of client or carers
Types of power mobility interventions include:
- adjustment of the current seating and power mobility
- upgrading or replacement of components of current power mobility
- new power mobility prescription and subsequent user and/or carer training.
Referral to the Spinal Seating Services is indicated for clients who:
- have non-healing sitting-acquired or related pressure areas
- have a history of recurrent pressure ulcers and related surgical interventions
- have custom-fabricated products that require replacement
- have complex postural and functional needs which commercial products are unable to meetÂ
- are ventilator-dependent quadriplegics.
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