AAT GB launches new seating accessories to support children with complex needs
Mobility equipment supplier AAT GB has launched a raft of seating accessories to support children and adults with severe and complex disabilities.
The accessories all function with AAT’s unique Gravity Chair foam positioning system that provides a stable, supported, non-restrictive environment that calms and reduces tension simply by using the natural forces of gravity.
The new additions mean the innovative seat can be precisely and easily configured to adjust the depth, width and height of the seat to individual physique.
Abduction pommels, ottomans and therapy tables enable the chair’s personalisation to each person using it and their specific needs. The new options compliment the existing accessories which include wedges, rockers and storage side pockets.
The accessories have all been designed to enable the care team to alter the set-up quickly and easily- especially useful in multi-user environments- and build on Gravity Chair’s reputation for being much more than “just a chair”.
The Gravity Chair is winning increasing traction with carers and healthcare professionals for its ability to improve behaviour and interaction with children and adult with motor and sensory difficulties.
The deep, inclined seat provides a low centre of gravity to naturally encourage a stable seating position. High arm rests support the elbows forward helping reduce muscle tension in the shoulders and enabling fine motor control activities. Snug lateral supports help maintain seated symmetry.
The structure of the seat allows muscle contortion to be accommodated without putting the occupant at risk. It helps alleviate discomfort from spasm and involuntary movement, providing a safe and non-restrictive seating option to ease deformities and contractures. The ‘hugging’ shape of the chair helps reduce anxiety and distractibility. The high arms can enhance fine motor control activities.
Clare Mason, Children’s Occupational Therapist at Sefton Carers Centre/Alderhey, comments: “To engage all children need to be comfortable above everything else. Children who require supportive seating spend many hours strapped in functional seats and wheelchairs using harnesses or chest straps. The Gravity Chair can give them seating away from all that. I find it is great for helping improve posture, and to calm and regulate.”
AAT GB develops a range of solutions that have been developed specifically to support people with limited mobility, to help them live as comfortably as possible. Earlier this year it launched a Grande Initiative, a scheme devised around its devised around innovative Grande vacuum posture cushion.
