Course Title - Utilizing Orthotic Principles in Custom Molded Seating Systems

This comprehensive wheelchair seating course will sharpen your skills regardless of the amount of experience you have. Even the most basic principles are presented in a new and compelling fashion. You will be challenged to reconsider how you think about postural control and skin care in the seated posture.

No matter what population you serve, you are bound to discover some refreshing concepts and strategies to better address your clients’ needs.

Ride Designs and Aspen Seating incorporate a healthy dose of orthotic and prosthetic principles that give their products and services unique advantages over traditional seating options. No longer are you forced to choose between aggressive postural support and skin care as our approach tackles both issues without compromise. Ride Designs’ seating systems utilize a blend of orthotic, prosthetic and traditional seating approaches to provide lightweight, breathable, adjustable, seating systems unlike anything available in today’s market.

Enrollment is limited to guarantee everyone individualized attention. Well-structured hands-on activities with actual wheelchair users will foster the confidence needed to transfer what you have learned into your practice.

Speakers:

Thomas R. Hetzel, PT, Co-Founder and CEO

Joseph Bieganek, Co-Founder, President and Orthotist

Daniella Giles, PT, DPT, ATP, SMS

Keith Rogers, OTR/L, ATP

Richard Salm, ATP

Ryan Crosby, ATP, SMS

Jeremy Hansen, ATP

For more information about Ride Designs certification, please visit our Certification FAQ.

*In compliance with the requirements of AOTA's Continuing Education Board concerning transparency in course planning, delivery, and marketing, below is information on presenters' relative financial relationship to Ride Designs:

Owners of Ride Designs:

Thomas R. Hetzel - Joseph Bieganek

Employee of Ride Designs:

Daniella Giles - Keith Rogers - Richard Salm - Ryan Crosby - Jeremy Hansen

Course Objectives:

• Identify 3 postural tendencies in sitting.

• Define an early intervention seating strategy for each of the 3 postural tendencies.

• Determine if a postural deviation is fixed or if it may still respond to proper intervention.

• Measure three absolute angles: frontal sternal, frontal pelvic, and frontal head.

• Differentiate traditional seating from the use of orthotic and prosthetic based seating principles and wheelchair set-up to address pelvic control and postural correction to counter destructive postural tendencies and skin protection.

• Describe the chief causative factors implicated in the development of sitting related pressure ulcers.

• Differentiate between immersion and off-loading approaches of wheelchair cushion design.

• Differentiate between bench testing, finite element analysis, and human subject testing as they apply to product testing.

• List four important factors that contribute to an appropriate fit of an orthotic based custom molded cushion and back.

• Demonstrate how to modify an orthotic-style cushion to increase bony clearance/off-loading and how to ensure safe tissue support at loading surfaces.

To complete Utilizing Orthotic Principles in Custom Molded Seating Systems and receive 8 contact hours, registrants must:

• Attend 2 full days of course instruction
• Participate in all course activities
• Complete all hands-on simulation practical activities
• Satisfy all course objectives at the direction of course instructors
• Complete the course evaluation

AOTA Approved Provider Statement:

The University of Pittsburgh - RSTCE (rst_ce@pitt.edu) is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# L.M.SD.951.1101.08. This live activity is offered at 0.8 CEUs, Intermediate, Occupational Therapy Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

* In the unlikely event that this training is cancelled, all registrants will be refunded their registration fees.