A new resource for prescribing therapists

Magic Mobility ‘For Therapists’ website has been designed to assist therapists in finding and tailoring powerchairs that best suit their clients’ specific needs.

The powerchair provisioning process can be very challenging and – at times – confusing, even for experienced prescribing therapists.

Particularly where government or insurer funding is involved, prescribing therapists need to be able to translate the users’ needs into what are sometimes defined as “reasonable” functional supports and “medically necessary” physical supports, with technical specifications and rationales based on clinical evidence.

A big part of the challenge, particularly for inexperienced therapists, is to understand the functional and medical role of the complex array of powerchair components required to optimise each user’s independent capabilities and meet their medical requirements.

Our website home page now links to a “For Therapists” site (a blue button in our website’s top menu), that seeks to educate and guide those setting out to prescribe Magic Mobility powerchairs.

While primarily tailored for Australian therapists working in the context of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding, we hope that the insights provided about linking users’ aspirations around the life they choose with the specifications and clinical evidence needed to justify the appropriate technology, will be far more widely relevant and helpful.

Our “For Therapists” resource hub seeks to educate and guide those setting out to prescribe Magic Mobility powerchairs.

At the heart of this advice lies a framework that explains how an individual’s potential to pursue meaningful occupations and enjoy fulfilling life experiences relates to the functional supports they require to suit their physically and/or mentally-limited capacity to manage tasks involved in their independent pursuit of everyday life choices.

This framework then links these needs to the medically necessary challenges of mitigating risks of injury and pain, while enhancing mental wellbeing.

Experienced powerchair users often stress the vital importance of working with a fully-committed and equipped therapist in order to access the technology they require to enable their everyday needs, life choices and dreams. Apart from assisting those therapists, we hope that many powerchair users will also benefit from the way this site both raises and frames what support you should expect from your prescribing therapist.

You can view the ‘For Therapists’ section of our website here.

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