MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS
The following clinical pictures are indicated for AKTIVLINE®:
- Infantile cerebral paresis: spastic tetraplegia, dyskinetic tetraplegia, tetraplegia with dystonic spasms, athetosis and chorea-athetosis
- cerebral movement impediments
With this group of patients, sitting as well as the ability to make targeted movements of the head and the upper extremities is very severely restricted as a result of the following patterns:
- Extension reactions
- Spasms during extension
- Pathological movement patterns in global extension
- Episthotonus
- Startle reaction
- Fright reaction
- Synkinetic extension movements of the trunk, of the upper and lower extremities
- Dystonic spasms
- Asymmetric and symmetric tonic reflex of the back of the neck
- Tonic labyrinthine reflex
Care through the provision of a conventional, rigid seat shell is frequently not possible or very difficult to achieve, due to a lack of acceptance. In particular, the high pressure forces, resulting in a conventional sitting care, are impossible for the patient to bear.
In addition, conventional sitting care increases the risk of the occurrence of: hip luxation, painful hips, shortening of the muscles, secondary damage as a result of immobility, muscle contractions or reduced mobility of the joints.
The dynamic seat shell of the AKTIVLINE® seating system enables automatic changing between various body postures and thus encourages breathing, the cardiovascular system, digestion, mobility of the body joints and helps prevent the development of pressure sores.