Clinical Webinar
Seating After Stroke: Comfort, Recovery and Preventing Secondary Complications
A FREE 90-minute webinar for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and healthcare professionals supporting people after stroke
📅 Thursday 19th November 2026 | 🕐 11:30am UK Time
There are 1.4 million stroke survivors living in the UK, and more than half live with a resulting disability. Whether you work in acute care, rehabilitation or the community, stroke is on your caseload right now.
Yet seating after stroke is rarely straightforward. Tone changes over weeks and months. The pelvis drifts, the trunk follows, and the affected arm is left unsupported. What fits at six weeks may not fit at six months.
Get it right, and seating protects the shoulder, supports breathing and swallow, reduces pressure risk and buys valuable therapy time. Get it wrong, and it quietly works against everything else you are doing.
Why attend?
- Expert guest speaker: Jo McConnell, Clinical Team Leader at an NHS Wheelchair Service and posture specialist with over 34 years of OT experience, will be joining us live.
- Start where the problem starts: Learn why the pelvis drives everything above it, and why correcting at shoulder or head level alone will fail.
- Strengthen your justifications: The National Clinical Guideline for Stroke names specialist seating directly. Jo will show you how to use it.
- Live demonstration: 🪑 See the seating features that support stroke survivors, shown on the chairs themselves.
Topics covered and learning objectives:
✅ Understanding stroke, and why left, right and brainstem presentations need different seating approaches
✅ The hemiplegic seated posture, and why the pelvis always comes first
✅ Tone as a moving target: specifying for today and for six months’ time
✅ Protecting the affected upper limb, and why armrest height is a clinical decision
✅ Pushing behaviour and lateropulsion: what seating can and cannot resolve
✅ How perception, cognition and post-stroke fatigue affect sitting tolerance
✅ Tilt in space and recline: why they are not the same thing, and when to use each
✅ Pressure care, posture, breathing and swallow safety
✅ Documenting, justifying and working with the MDT
✅ A live chair demonstration and live Q&A
This session is for you if you:
- Support stroke survivors in hospital, rehabilitation or at home
- Have watched someone lean, slide or push in a chair and been unsure what to change first
- Need to justify specialist seating to a funder, panel or procurement team
- Want seating that keeps pace with changing tone and recovery
🚨 Limited spaces available. 600+ professionals registered for a recent session.
⭐ “I am feeling much more confident in seating assessments”
⭐ “The best use of an hour”
⭐ “A privilege receiving training from OTs and others who are currently working in the industry”
💡 Please register even if you cannot attend live. The session is recorded and sent to everyone who signs up, along with the slides.
