Postural management: Exploring solutions
Based on the principles of postural management, Jenny provides some solutions to complex posture management needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Increase confidence in interpreting the outcome of a postural assessment into client centred therapeutic goals
- Develop confidence in testing out solutions for the difficulties highlighted from assessment
- Increase awareness of potential solutions for specific postural limitations
- Increase awareness of the range of Accora products that can be used to meet some of these postural needs
Meet our Experts
Jenny is a senior occupational therapist. She qualified in 1997 and completed her MSc in Neuro-rehabilitation in 2007. She has worked in Neurological Rehabilitation at the Battle Hospital in Reading, and the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford which became part of the Oxford Centre for Enablement in 2000. She moved into the Specialist Disability Service at the OCE from where she joined the Oxford MND Centre in January 2007.
Since August 2009 Jenny has been funded full-time by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association to develop NHS wheelchair services across the UK, to improve wheelchair provision for people living with MND.
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