A course designed to outline the equipment available in today’s marketplace, informing the applicant of what information to gather prior to advising a client on a wheelchair choice from a manual wheelchair perspective.

Intended for:

• Sunrise Medical dealers who hold a Quickie prescriptive manual wheelchair account and who are actively involved in manual wheelchair prescription
• Occupational therapists, rehab engineers and physiotherapists
• It is required that the one day clinical programme “Manual Mobility Selection: Linking Assessment to Appropriate Prescription” is attended prior to attending this course

Course contents:

• Appropriate manual wheelchair prescription i.e. matching equipment to the needs and desires of the client has a great impact on performance, safety and efficiency. The instruction utilizes a practical, hands-on approach to the assessment process i.e. measurement of the client and how this is translated into actual manual wheelchair prescription.
• The course includes a review of order forms, highlighting which features are essential, which are primary options and how the options chosen impact the overall package.
• With the assessment complete and the equipment ordered the next critical step is configuration and set-up for hand-over to the client. Optimal configuration for different client presentations is addressed through discussion and hands-on, problem solving exercises.