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ATP Series
Best Picks 2017
Joe McKnight: “Our Best Product Is CRT”
Joe McKnight, ATP/SMS, CRTS, is Numotion’s director of busi- ness development in California, Nevada and Arizona — and a member of Mobility Management’s editorial advisory board. As such, he offered several Best Picks selections this year.
And then, Joe added this:
Finally, the last product I want you to introduce is people. Being able to offer service, energy, thought and application
of new products to new patients is a new mission. You need to write on the process of CRT, because we are our best product. We need to change the hearts and minds of Congress and CMS \\\\\\\[Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\\\\\\\] to help them appreciate the great value that we bring.
Frankly, our best product of 2017 is CRT. I look across thousands of energetic smiling faces that are engaged with customers and work hard every day to make a difference, and that is a product I’m proud to represent, serve and support. Let’s find a way to illustrate the people who get this done. When I work with our staff, see how engaged they are and how passionate they are, they are the product we get to serve. A passionate person who serves others. I serve that outcome.
Well said, Joe. And thank you for the reminder that passionate professionals are behind all of CRT’s innovations, and also working every day to get those innovations in front of consumers. — Ed.
Stander allows for easy supine transfer. Once positioned, the client can be raised upright and even into prone position without changing or replacing parts. Easy to adjust for positioning and growth. Best part are the colorful positioning component covers. — Lindsey Rea, ATP, Numotion
EasyStand
(800) 342-8968
easystand.com
F3 Corpus
This is (again) a game changer.
This will allow users all the
features of a great base that have
been substantially enhanced, but
it now has anterior tilt for the user
for transfers, pressure relief, spas-
ticity control, functional reach and
a whole host of other considerations. Why would you not (as an ATP or therapist) consider this in your portfolio of choices?
— Joe McKnight, ATP/SMS, CRTS, Numotion
Permobil
(800) 736-0925
permobilus.com
Virtual Seating Coach
We know that keeping people focused on using their tilt and recline, tracking that data and reporting back to our therapists will change the face of rehab and how we
do, what we do. More importantly, it will keep patients out of the hospital because they will be using the equipment properly. This tool is a vital game changer in the rehab industry. Outcomes are everything. Virtual Seating Coach is one of the best new products offered. — Joe McKnight, ATP/SMS, CRTS, Numotion
Permobil
(800) 736-0925
permobilus.com
Ortho-Shape OBSS Back
Ottobock has a great new
product out in their lineup —
the Ortho-Shape back — that is
very cool. — Joe McKnight, ATP/
SMS, CRTS, Numotion
Ottobock
(800) 328-4058 https://professionals.ottobockus.com/
Custom Molded Seating
Ride Design’s custom molded seating is an amazing product for certain clientele. It was developed by a physical therapist and an orthotist in Colorado, and it can help people sit in their mobility device in ways that other devices cannot.
— Frank Lane, ATP, CRTS, National Seating & Mobility
What about the new technologies around scanning for custom molded seating? Very quick scanning and no more plaster molds
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