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we have are part of our standard offer- ings. From the perspective of under- standing what options are available and making it easy to configure, the big benefit of our range now is that so much of it is just standard equipment. I think it takes some of the stress out, because it makes it much easier to say, ‘This is what I’m getting and this is how it’s going to be configured.’”
In true CRT fashion, Friesen added, “Even though we’ve configured
our chair to be sized correctly and configured correctly for a specific user, there is still a lot of adjustment to allow it to be fine tuned and individualized even further. That takes some of the guesswork off the clinicians because they know even if they order what looks on paper like a specialized chair, it still has a lot
of adjustment. And if we still can’t get it to work right even with that
adjustment, the chairs are modular, which usually means we can swap in another part or another option, and it will work for a particular client.”
The end result is a system “that works for that individual, and that’s taking into account their seating, their functioning, their skin, their posi- tioning and their comfort,” Friesen said. “We can offer this enormous range of products and accessories that can be individualized, but still have a lot of options if we need to fine-tune it to a user later on.”
And for clients, that can be empowering. “As we talk about people with larger bodies, there
can be a whole lot of issues around loss of independence, where they can’t do a lot of tasks on their own,” Friesen said. “Part of the comfort factor may be that they want to be able to transfer independently or with
minimal assistance from someone else. We can help by configuring a chair that has different options and accessories that facilitate that so they are motivated and they have owner- ship of getting the equipment and also using it on a daily basis.” m
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