Complex Wheelchair Seating

Complex wheelchair seating goes beyond the standard level of wheelchair support to offer a solution tailored to the requirements of the individual. This is especially important for wheelchair users who have specific mobility restrictions and postural needs. Complex wheelchair seating offers a customised solution with a functional purpose to provide optimal support and independence with a goal to address posture, comfort, accessibility and pressure management.

Key Features of Complex Wheelchair Seating

Solutions for the Individual – A detailed assessment of the individual’s mobility and postural needs enables a specific tailored solution to be prescribed for a custom or modular wheelchair seating system.

Optimal Postural Support – Too often the true postural needs of a wheelchair user are overlooked. By providing a wheelchair seating solution that offers optimal postural support, the individual’s comfort improved and the potential risk of further complications due to bad posture are minimised.

Pressure Management – Correctly scripted wheelchair seating provides optimal postural alignment that minimises the effect of gravity pressure on the body. This helps prevent skin breakdown and the risk of pressure injuries.

Increased Independence and Participation – A tailored wheelchair seating system enhances independence and participation. This helps promote self-esteem, reduces the reliance on others and provides a sense of freedom and well-being.

Complex Wheelchair Seating Components

Custom Seating – Custom seating is tailored to the unique contours of the wheelchair user’s body and offers support for extreme asymmetry and positioning needs.

Modular Seating – Modular seating is composed of pre-designed components that are combined and adjusted to provide a customised seating solution offering adaptability and support.

Contoured Cushions – Designed to match the natural shape and contours of the wheelchair user. The individualised curves and depressions of a contoured wheelchair cushion provide enhanced support, pressure distribution and stability. Promoting better posture, comfort and skin protection.  

Dynamic Seating Components – Vital for maintaining postural alignment where high tone and spasticity are present. Dynamic wheelchair seating allows for greater management of challenging tone patterns that increases tolerance of wheelchair seating for those with these conditions.

Adjustable Backrest and Headrest – The ability to adjust and modify the position and angle of a wheelchair backrest and headrest provides the wheelchair user with an optimal level of comfort and support, and also assists with communication. 

Specialised Hardware – Advanced and specialised control systems for wheelchairs allow for enhanced mobility, comfort and functionality. 

Complex Wheelchair Seating Considerations

Follow Up and Continued Service – A key consideration with complex wheelchair seating is ongoing adjustments and servicing. Achieving an optimal seating solution is a collaborative team effort by the Consultant, Therapist, Carer/Family and Wheelchair User. The continued requirements of servicing, adjustments and updates need to be considered when looking for the right team to work together when it comes to complex wheelchair seating.

Urgoform’s Scripted Guarantee.

The care we take in ensuring all requirements are met enables us to guarantee the equipment solution. Our confidence in our clinically based consultation process is upheld by our money-back refund policy. Our scripted guarantee is the ultimate assurance of our commitment to getting it right.