Comfort from Diagnosis to End of Life: Specialist Seating for People with MND

This FREE 90-minute webinar provided essential clinical guidance for healthcare professionals supporting people living with Motor Neurone Disease

Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most challenging conditions an OT will encounter. Disease progression can be rapid and unpredictable. And the stakes – comfort, dignity, breathing, swallowing, quality of life – could not be higher.

Yet seating is one of the most powerful clinical tools available to the MND MDT. The right chair, correctly assessed, correctly timed, and correctly adjusted, can protect respiratory function, reduce aspiration risk, prevent pressure injuries, and preserve independence and engagement for longer. Getting it right matters enormously. Getting it wrong has real consequences for real people.

This webinar gives you the clinical knowledge, assessment frameworks, and anticipatory planning skills to prescribe seating that genuinely makes a difference – from the point of diagnosis through to end of life.
Why This Webinar is Essential:

• Understand the full clinical picture: Learn how different MND presentations create different postural and functional challenges at different rates, and why this matters for seating decisions
• Act early, act right: Discover why proactive, anticipatory equipment planning from the point of diagnosis is essential – and how delays in seating referral can mean equipment arrives too late to be useful
• Master the respiratory and dysphagia link: Understand the critical relationship between seated posture, head and neck alignment, breathing function, and aspiration risk—and how chair angle and tilt directly affect swallow safety
• Build bulletproof clinical justifications: Learn how to conduct and document thorough MND seating assessments
• Learn from a specialist with 33+ years experience
• See specialist solutions in action: 🪑 Live demonstration of seating features – see exactly what to specify and why

What You’ll Master:

✅ MND Presentations & Seating Implications – Understanding ALS, bulbar-onset, and PLS, and how each creates distinct postural challenges

✅ Anticipatory & Proactive Planning – How to plan ahead for changing needs, when to initiate referrals, and how to prescribe seating that remains useful as the condition progresses

✅ Head & Neck Support in Seating – Assessing and managing neck weakness, head drop, and lateral flexion

✅ Posture, Breathing & Swallow Safety – The link between seated alignment, respiratory function, and dysphagia risk

✅ Pressure Care for MND – Applying pressure redistribution principles, and using tilt-in-space effectively to manage risk

✅ Thorough MND Seating Assessment – Systematic measurement and documentation frameworks covering all key seating parameters, with clinical justification skills for MDT and funding purposes

✅ Working Within the MND MDT – Knowing when and how to escalate, and how to work effectively alongside other professionals

✅ Live Equipment Demonstration 🪑 – See MND specific specialist seating features in action

✅ Interactive Q&A

This webinar is essential if you:

• Support people living with MND and want to feel more confident in your seating decisions
• Want a clearer framework for anticipatory planning
• Need to understand the clinical links between seating, breathing, and swallow safety
• Want robust assessment and documentation skills that hold up in MDT and funding discussions
• Work within an MND MDT and want to understand how seating interacts with other clinical priorities