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Postural Care for Adults


Workshop Duration: 2 hours

Cost: $120.00

Do you know how lying and positioning can affect body shape over time?

Are you confident choosing positioning strategies that improve comfort and reduce pressure?

Learn practical postural care strategies that support comfort, protect body shape and improve quality of life.

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What will you learn?

In this workshop, you will gain practical knowledge and tools to:

  • Understand the principles of 24-hour postural care and why body shape protection is essential for adults with reduced mobility
  • Identify people at risk of body shape distortion, contractures, deformity and pressure injuries
  • Recognise how gravity, positioning and movement influence posture, comfort and long term function
  • Differentiate between contractures, deformities and body shape distortion to support clinical reasoning
  • Apply therapeutic positioning principles to maintain alignment, comfort and respiratory function during supported lying
  • Assess the relationship between lying posture, sitting posture and overall functional outcomes
  • Explore supine and side lying positioning strategies, including when each approach is clinically appropriate
  • Understand the Sterno-Spinal Line concept and its application to therapeutic positioning
  • Apply pressure management principles to increase contact area and reduce pressure injury risk
  • Identify practical strategies to introduce and implement supported lying programs within residential, disability and aged care settings
  • Understand therapeutic positioning within the context of restrictive practices, consent and clinical governance
     

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is designed for Occupational Therapists supporting adults with complex physical disabilities, neurological conditions or age related mobility decline.

It will be particularly useful for:

  • Occupational Therapists working in disability services, residential care and aged care
  • Occupational Therapists completing postural assessments and prescribing sleep positioning or supported lying equipment
  • Occupational Therapists supporting people with progressive neurological conditions, dementia or significant physical impairment
  • Clinicians wanting greater confidence preventing body shape changes, improving comfort and reducing pressure injury risk

 

Why attend?
In this workshop, you will:

  • Strengthen your understanding of therapeutic postural care and supported lying
  • Develop practical positioning strategies that improve comfort, sleep and pressure management
  • Build confidence assessing body shape changes and selecting appropriate positioning interventions
  • Learn clinical approaches that help maintain function and reduce long term care needs
  • Explore practical case examples demonstrating successful implementation across disability and aged care settings
  • Improve your confidence introducing supported lying programs with participants, families and support teams

 

What's included?

  • Gain online access to the workshop – live workshops are delivered via Zoom, while self-paced options include access to recorded sessions
  • Download workshop slides and any resources provided by the presenter
  • Enjoy six months of access to the recording and resources via your Verve OT Learning Library
  • Receive a certificate of completion for your CPD records, available via email upon completion of the workshop

 

Terms of purchase

Please note that each workshop purchase provides access for one person only. If you would like multiple team members to access this workshop, each person must purchase the workshop seperately.

Intermediate Level

The content of this workshop is suitable for therapists who already have a basic understanding of the topic and some practical experience applying it in clinical practice.

The workshop builds on foundational knowledge and explores more detailed reasoning, application and problem-solving.

What are the different levels?

Considering more than one workshop?

 

Add them all to your cart and finalise your purchase in one easy step

About the Presenter

Bas Jansen is a Physiotherapist with a special interest in 24-hour postural care. Bas migrated from the Netherlands to Perth Western Australia back in 1998. Bas has more than 25 years of experience providing postural care including complex seating for people with severe mobility impairments, both adults and children. He is a strong advocate for family-cantered practice and building the capacity of the first circle of support in the area of postural care (paid and unpaid carers).

Bas regularly provides postural care courses for families, carers, and therapists through Postural Care Australia (PCA) and provides Consultancy Services to assist OT’s and PT’s via Telehealth or face-to-face if possible. Bas teaches therapists how to measure body shape objectively with the Goldsmith Indices of Body Symmetry (GIoBS) and regularly runs seating workshops for therapists. In this current role, he also has been given the opportunity to facilitate two research projects with Edith Cowan University (ECU) and another with Curtin University/Telethon Kids Institute in the areas of seating and lying.

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What Are Others Saying?

"Bas was very knowledgeable and explained concepts well. I found the webinar very interesting because he used real life stories and mixed media (photos, pictures and videos).

Thank you! Much more informative and useful than I even thought it could be! SO good! I ca definitely see this being useful where I work in residential aged care as they become frail, develop contractures/are at risk, and people with advanced dementia."

"Bas is very knowledgeable. He explained concepts simply and showed examples that provided excellent insight."

Ashleigh M, Occupational Therapist

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Verve OT Learning Workshop Categories

Beginner

Suitable for therapists who are new to the topic area and require foundational knowledge.

The workshop assumes little or no prior experience and focuses on core concepts, terminology, frameworks and practical introductory skills.

Intermediate

Suitable for therapists who already have a basic understanding of the topic and some practical experience applying it in clinical practice.

The workshop builds on foundational knowledge and explores more detailed reasoning, application and problem-solving.

Advanced

Suitable for experienced therapists who are already working in this area regularly.

The workshop assumes strong foundational knowledge and focuses on complex clinical reasoning, nuanced decision-making, advanced application and higher-level practice considerations.

All levels

Suitable for therapists across a range of experience levels.

While some concepts may be more familiar to experienced clinicians, the content is designed to be accessible and valuable regardless of prior knowledge.

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