Seating and Postural Management
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.
Webinar Parts
Exploring the anatomy of the ...
Pelvis and Spine
Pelvis and Spine
Postural Assessment
Postural Assessment
Analysis of Posture
Analysis of Posture
Management Solutions
Management Solutions
Case Studies
Case studies
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
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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