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Seating and Postural Management
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April 5, 2022 1:00 AM
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Part 1 - April 5, 2022 1:00 AM: What is Posture & how is it linked to pressure?
Duration: 1 hour
This 6-session programme takes a detailed look at the issues related to assessing posture and applying interventions as part of a postural management programme. The course is accompanied by a workbook.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of considering postural management with your clients
- Understand how the body is made of segments and how these help us understand a person’s posture
- Understand how posture affects loading through body segments and therefore pressure management
- Understand how forces act on body segments, and what forces we can use to minimise pressure injury and further postural deformity
- Know the anatomy of the pelvis, and how to identify important landmarks to aid your assessment
- Know how positions of the pelvis drive different presenting postures and spinal positions
- Know the different areas of the spine, and types of spinal positions which impact most on posture
- Know indicators to show if spinal positions are correctable or need accommodation, and how to achieve this in seating
- Be aware of what should be covered in a physical assessment of posture
- Develop an understanding of how to carry out a physical assessment in a variety of settings
- Be able to distinguish between fixed and correctable postural limitations and when to provide accommodation or correction
- Be aware of how to explore optimum positioning
- Be confident in making recommendations based on your findings from an assessment
- Be confident in knowing the required product features to support, accommodate and correct postural limitations
- Be able to apply the principles of posture management to a case and work through problem identification, assessment, recommendations, and clinical reasoning and justification for your recommendations
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