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Everything we do is inspired by our customers, and in turn we’re proud to share our latest creations with you. Check this page for our new products, new innovations and other insight into what we’re doing to improve lives. The information in the blog is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be medical, billing, or legal advice.

April 6, 2017

Are We Over-Prescribing Custom Contoured Seating?

November 16, 2016

Wheelchair Seating Considerations: Impaired Sensation & Respiration

Part 4 in our series about Progressive Neurological Disorders. See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

August 11, 2016

MYTH: New Cushions Solve All Seating Issues

"All we have to do is get a new cushion when there are seating issues."

May 19, 2016

Choosing the Right Cushion: Minimize Prolonged Pressure & Fight Wound Development

It was important for us as therapists to be able to identify the common areas of skin breakdown due to prolonged pressure from last week’s blog on "What...

October 2, 2015

5 Common Mistakes Made When Pressure Mapping Wheelchair Cushions

A pressure map is a tool often used in seating evaluations and/or fittings to assess the downward pressures of a seated surface. It is simply a pad with...

September 22, 2015

4 Reasons to Pressure Map Wheelchair Cushions

As a therapist I am used to having tools to measure or evaluate my patients’ physical status and environmental conditions. These tools give me a baseline...

August 27, 2015

WHEELCHAIR CUSHIONS: Healing Pressure Ulcers by Addressing SHEAR

We have a problem. There are 2.5 million pressure ulcers each year in the US (Reddy et al 2006). Fifty percent of all admissions and eight percent of all...

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