Providing seating solutions for people with complex or non-reducible musculoskeletal changes is often a balancing act – incorporating a person’s postural support needs with their functional needs with potential carer support needs. Translating these needs into seating specifications can be a further challenge – do we maximize the use of modular seating or when is custom seating more appropriate?

This workshop allows participants to 
- Refresh their MAT assessment skills and how this information can be used to identify product parameters.
- Review management of both reducible and non-reducible pelvic and spinal changes
- Explore modular seating and what postures can be accommodated
- Review the material science of seating to create individualised seating solutions

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to
- Identify how a MAT assessment can be used to identify product features
- Demonstrate how to use seating products to accommodate non-reducible sitting postures
- Identify when a person is likely to benefit from a custom fabricated seating solution

Time:

Two hours

Recommended Companion Learning:

Part 1: How important is the foundation – Posterior pelvic tilt (On-demand webinar)

Part 2: How important is the foundation – Pelvic obliquity (On-demand webinar)

Permobil Express Learning: Palpation Videos

Material Matters: An introduction and overview of the design and materials in aftermarket seating products