Guidebook ThevoSiiS
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ThevoSiiS – The seat with impulse effect

ThevoSiiS Therapy Chair People need impulses – and to learn, one needs to feel good. But what happens when a person is handicapped in their sensory and motor abilities due to deficiencies in cognitive processing or due to spasticity? What if e.g. a child has to manage long periods of sitting down at school? This results in: • Decrease in proper posture • Increased spasticity in the hands • Premature lapses in concentration • Symptoms of fatigue • Fidgety or agitated behavior These are poor conditions for academic learning or for activities in therapeutic situations and perceptive...

ThevoSiiS Therapy Chair Seat with integrated impulse Sensors The ThevoSiiS therapy chair provides a second chance for those with spasticity as well as persons with cognitive processing deficiencies. • Stable base • Body perception • Finding of the body center • Sensory input • Initiation of a physiological posture Areas of application / clinical pictures - Cerebral apraxia (diplegia, tetraspasticity, s ingle-side problems). - Cognitive processing d eficiencies / ADD. - Tonus dysregulation d eficiencies (so-called ” floppy” and ”hypertonous” c hildren and adults). - Diverse disabilities a...

Expert view: The basic conditions for the provision with a ThevoSiiS Therapy Chair are: The person has to show a minimum amount of leg support function. The person has to show a minimum amount of torso control, which can be activated through stimulation (e.g. compensation movement, prop up of the arms to the front) and is changeable in normotone direction. Properties of the ThevoSiiS Therapy Chair ThevoSiiS Therapy Chair - seat - The firm seat block provides the person with a maximum of sensory - The longish shape of the seat helps the forward facilitation of the arms. (Stabilisation,...

Case Study Mustafa Before Mustafa Age: 6 years Diagnosis: Tetraparesis, accentuated in the legs Before being supplied with ThevoSiiS M: Little floor contact of the feet Position not suitable for the development of the femoral head Severely backwards tilted pelvis with round back Difficulties in keeping head and trunk upright for longer periods Raised shoulders Restricted view due to poor straightening of head Well-directed activation of fine motor skills hampered due to poor body straightening After being supplied: • Firm floor contact of the feet • Improved position of hips due to sitting...

Case Study Farhan Farhan Age: 3 years Diagnosis: Global hypotension of unknown genesis Before being supplied with ThevoSiiS M: - His feet do not remain in firm floor contact Farhan cannot build muscle tension in his trunk He quickly gets tired Children with special needs often use movement patterns deviating from the optimal physiologic human patterns. These are inefficient in the biomechanical sense. A proper sitting posture requires the least power and thus leaves capacity for other activities, e.g. concentration or fine motor skills during playing. The head often is super extended. This...

Case Study - René Expert opinion A person who can trust their body dares to move. Age: 10 years Diagnosis: Cerebral palsy in the form of a spastic diplegia BEFORE being supplied with ThevoSiiS Size 1 - - Tendency towards overstretched rearward head position. Adduction and tendency to turn the feet inward. Mouth closing problems. Poor body tension during rest periods in the wheelchair. Tendency to fall / bend to the right in the trunk area. AFTER being supplied: • • Active trunk straightening Adequate reactions with compensating movements on the seat block – resulting in balancing of the...

Case Study - Melanie Melanie Age: 15 years Diagnosis: Spastic tetraparesis with considerable flexion tonus of the arms, athetosis, dysarthritic articulation problems. Expert opinion The ability to perform active holding tasks awakens pride and strengthens self-esteem! Before BEFORE being supplied with ThevoSiiS chair Size 1: - Decreased proper trunk patture Increased tones in the shoulder and arm region. Mouth closing problems. Unintentional hand slowdown with every attempt at fine motor movements. AFTER being supplied: • Active sitting position with centered posture. • Straight positioning...

Case Study - Tjark Expert opinion A person who can feel their body center well becomes flexible. Tjark Age: 15 years Diagnosis: Tetraspastic -accentuated on the right, hypotonus of the trunk, oral hypotonus with dyslalia, foot in valgus position, pronounced cognitive processing deficiencies Tjark's teacher • His concentration is improved by balancing on the seat, and it is easier for him to participate in class. There fore, Tjark no longer gets physically tired as quickly as before. • Tjark's handwriting has noticeably improved through the straight body posture. • Since using the...

Application studies Expert opinion Application studies with children suffering from cerebral apraxia • • • • • • • • • • • They find the center of their body – balancing Inhibition of spastic movement patterns Arms and hands are lead towards the center of the body Relaxation of the shoulder and neck region: The shoulders are no longer drawn in the direction of the head as much Start of a physiological seating posture Positive effect on body and head control To some extent, improvement in mouth closing and swallowing results Fine motor skills of the hands are noticeably improved Improvement...

Expert opinion If muscles work more actively, mental alertness increases, too Before Kai Age: 41 years Diagnosis: Mental disability, Significant hypotension in trunk and extremities, reduced drive Before being supplied with ThevoSiiS P: - Little floor contact with the feet, he sits with crossed legs most of the time - Severely backwards tilted back, buttock slips forward on seat surface - Thoracic spine severely kyphotic - Super extended neck muscles (vulture head posture) - Fine motor activities are done without power and very slowly After being supplied: • Plane floor contact of the feet...