Let’s Get It Clear: What’s in an ‘assembly’, and what should we call the components?
Figure 1. PSD Pad and PSD Supporting Structure When you order an ‘assembly’ to fit onto your assistive technology device such as onto a wheelchair,…
Let’s Get It Clear: Alternatives for getting the pelvis under control
Figure 1. Useful bony leverage pointsaround the pelvis When seated, we rely on the position and stability of our pelvis to allow us to manage…
Let’s Get It Clear: What makes a good head support? Or is that neck support?
Figure 4. An i2i neck support The position of our head is critical for many of our day-to-day functions. For a number of people, external…
Let’s Get It Clear: Covering a mobility need in a care home
Fig 1. The Bodypoint Dynamic Arm Support dynamic arm support Having been approached a number of times in recent months, by friends and acquaintances in…
Let’s Get It Clear: Education Health and Care Plans – The essentials for success
Figure 1. The timetable to reaching an EHCP (numbers in brackets are the maximum number of weeks from the start of the process) At the…
Let’s Get It Clear: Managing the upper extremities of a seated person
Fig 3. The Moduform Dynamic Arm Support Over the years engineers have made a steady progression in improving wheelchairs and their accessories to the benefit…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – Absolute angles in seating system measures
Figure 1. The Right Hand Rule for describing the three gravitational axes (Fig in the CAG1) In the previous articles we looked at how parts…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – Absolute angles in body measures
Figure 2. The Right Hand rule for indicating the direction of positive or negative rotation around an axis (Fig in the CAG, 2) In the…
Let’s Get It Clear: Measurements in seating – relative angles of the body
In this article we look at what we need to do to measure the angles between different parts of the body with respect to the…
Let’s Get It Clear: Travelling by air with a wheelchair part II – Air Travel Configuration Card
Figure 1. American National Standard for Assistive Technology for Air Travel In last month’s Let’s Get It Clear article we reviewed the experience that wheelchair…