The New Rifton Seating Worksheet
Rifton provides quality customer service and continually seeks ways to improve a customer’s experience when interacting with us. Recently we have improved our seating recommendation services to help...
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Feeding Chairs for Children with Special Needs
Optimal Positioning, Successful Feeding Therapists, teachers and parents are well aware that children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities can face more challenges (and pose more challenges) than...
New From Rifton
TRAM Quick Reference Guide The Rifton TRAM, our latest product offering, is a transfer and mobility device that performs three powerful functions: seated transfer, sit-to-stand lift, and gait training....
Introducing the ICF for School-based Practice
Looking at adaptive equipment use within the ICF framework in school-based practice: This on-demand webinar presented by Lori Potts, PT provides a beginner-level introduction to the International Classification...
SMART Goal Writing: Using Adapted Equipment to Enhance Participation in Activities
Goal writing is central for measuring outcomes, documenting the mobility performance of a child, and securing insurance funding and reimbursement. Good goal writing supports physical therapists’ practice...
Exploring the Use of an iPad to Enhance Productivity
The iPad is a tool that has revolutionized how we access and use media in our lives. As a physical therapist, I have been using one for work for the last several years and have found it enormously helpful....
Getting the Most out of Your Rifton TRAM
I asked our lead designer, Gideon Clement, to answer the most frequent questions we’re hearing from new TRAM users in the field. Obviously these tips are intended as general guidance only; each client...
Five Common Gait Training Goals and How to Achieve Them
The Rifton Pacer gait trainer is a remarkable piece of equipment designed to help people of all ability levels learn to use their motor skills for weight bearing and ambulation. Since the Pacer was introduced...
Guidelines for Functional Use of the Pacer Gait Trainer part I
In the Pacer gait trainer children with a wide variety of disabilities can gain independent movement while provided with appropriate support. The Pacer accessories (we call them prompts) are infinitely...
3 Tips for a Spring Trike Tune-up
We have visited many classrooms and found that Rifton adaptive tricycles purchased years ago are still going strong. We’ve also found that the favorite Rifton tricycles often need a simple tune-up to...