Rehabilitation Technology Services at Children's Specialized Hospital
Outpatient Rehabilitation Technology Clinic
The Rehabilitation Technology Program uses a team approach, to conduct
a detailed evaluation of the
patient with regards to seating, positioning and mobility needs. The team
consists of the evaluating therapist, child, family and in-network Durable
Medical Equipment Supplier. The specialists in the Rehabilitation Technology
Department work with patients currently using or in need of specialized
equipment to enhance their strengths and abilities. By creating highly
tailored specialized equipment, patients are able to participate to the
best of their ability in family, school, community, employment and recreation
activities.
Types of equipment that are recommended include, but are not limited to
the following:
- Manual wheelchairs
- Power wheelchairs
- Custom molded seating systems
- Supportive standers
- Adaptive toileting and bath equipment
- Adaptive strollers
- Gait trainers
Children's Specialized Hospital's Family Faculty Member, Nancy Panarese shares her personal experience with Rehabilitation Technology. Click here to watch.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Technology
At Children's Specialized Hospital's New Brunswick inpatient facility, our rehabilitation technology team works directly with our patients and their therapy, nursing, and medical teams, to provide mobility and postural support systems. Postural support systems include wheelchair seating systems, supine, prone, and sit-to-stand standing devices, toileting and bathing equipment, and supine and side-lying supports for bed.
The team also provides:
- Infant Strollers
- Adaptive Supportive Strollers
- Standard Wheelchairs
- Ultralightweight Manual Chairs
- Reclining Wheelchairs
- Tilt-in-space Wheelchairs
- Powered mobility equipment for those children who require power to be independently mobile
- Pressure mapping to prevent and treat pressure wounds
- Modifications and repairs to personal equipment to fit the child's current needs
The inpatient rehabilitation technology team works with off-the-shelf solutions when possible but has the ability to modify, design, and/or craft custom solutions when appropriate to help our patients with better function and get moving. The team ensures our patients are able to navigate their environment for their entire inpatient stay.
Watch below to learn more about inpatient rehabilitation technology.