Canoeing for the Disabled: Adaptive Seats

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I'm Susie, with Splore. Now that we have our Chosen Valley Canoe adaptive seat in our canoe, I'm going to talk about a few reasons why this seat is so great. First of all, the seat's great because it can be used for anybody. Ideal participants would be somebody with severe cerebral palsy that needs a lot of help with extra trunk support and balance support, or it could also be great for somebody with a spinal cord injury, cause it can adjust to several different people. The nice thing about this is it has very, several different adjustment points. For example, if you have somebody that needs a little bit more trunk support, or they need to lean back in their seat a little bit more, you can just take these pins out and raise the pitch of the seat to adjust your participants' needs. Again, one of the ways I assess how the seat should be set up for participants is looking at somebody's original wheelchair, and just see how their wheelchair is set up. And so, I'm going to set this up right here. It's now locked in place. And then, another good thing about this seat is that it has lateral support, meaning we can adjust these sides here. They just unscrew, and then if I unscrew it just a little bit more, it'll slide this these lateral support sides out. So, say somebody, say you have somebody with a high level spinal cord injury, like a C5 injury, and so they're actually a quadriplegic and they need a lot of trunk support. This is great to help keep them in place as mus much as possible. They can lean back; they can lean to the side without falling out, and so it's just really a great piece of adaptive equipment. It's pretty durable as well. We've also fashioned the seat to work on our white water rafting rafts and frames, and we actually took it down Cataract Canyon, which is a five day rafting trip where there's a lot of much bigger rapids, like class four rapids, and so it's very durable. We did that with a participant and it worked out great, so this is our prized possession as far as adaptive seating goes for canoeing.

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