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Assessment modules
2- Developing a client profile:
3- Hands-on assessment
4- Body measurement
5- Evaluation of Seating and Wheeled Mobility Systems
Interventions modules
6 - Seating Made Easy, Solving a Seating Puzzle:
- adopt an integrated, problem solving framework
- provides key themes for seating and wheeled mobility interventions: size, shape and function
- introduces key processes: systematically identify issues, goal setting and interventions, team work and formulating trials
7 - Postural Interventions
- setting postural goals through a process of hypothesis and deductive reasoning
- key principles to postural interventions: provide stability and consider appropriate size and shape to the client
8 - Pressure Management
- pressure ulcer prevention
- understanding pressure ulcers
- key principles to address pressure in seating and wheeled mobility: maximise pressure distribution, appropriate size and shape to the client, promote postural alignment and stability and allow for independent weight shifts
- video " Pressure management in seating and wheeled mobility" included to illustrate principles can be viewed with internet access
9 - Manual Wheelchair
- prevention and management of upper limb pain and injury
- key principles for manual wheelchair interventions and prescriptions: Stability and manoeuvrability, appropriate size and shape to the client's physical attribute.
- tips for prescription
10 - Power Mobility
- types of power mobility
- components of a power wheelchair: type of drive wheel configurations, seating and power seating functions
- identify keys issues for appropriate power mobility
This web page is managed and authorised by Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce. Last updated: 16 March, 2009
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