Wheelchair Training for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Professionals

  • Location

    Batterjee Medical College

  • Phone

    +966 552842688

  • Website: www.bmc.edu.sa Join Event
  • Email Address: ceo.office1@bmc.edu.sa
  • Email Activity Coordinator: hassan.sarsak@bmc.edu.sa
  • Phone Activity Coordinator: +966 543535190

Event Audience

  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Occupational Medicine
  • Nursing / Neurophysiology
  • Physiotherapy
  • Physiotherapy - Neurological
  • Physiotherapy - Geriatrics
  • Physiotherapy - Musculoskeletal
  • Physiotherapy - Sport Physical Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Occupational Safety and Health

Event Goals

  • develop knowledge and hands-on skill in the process of identifying and providing wheeled mobility and seating interventions to people of all ages and disability type.
  • Develop fundamental knowledge and the minimum skills required by personnel involved in wheelchair service delivery.
  • Develop a better understanding of wheelchair users needs, wheeled mobility assessment, and seating interventions
  • Enabling therapists to better understand the person-wheelchair-environment match
  • Improving the clinical practice for future wheeled mobility and seating interventions through the introduction of the WTP
  • Correctly applying fundamental assessment and provision of wheeled mobility and seating interventions
  • Developing skills as a wheelchair professional and evidence-based practitioner
  • Enhancing quality of wheelchair service provision
  • Improving independence, safety, and quality of everyday functional performance for wheelchair users who are the real motivation behind all of this

Event Agenda

02/05/2025

Introduction to Wheelchair Technology

08:30:00 - 09:20:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Seating biomechanics

09:30:00 - 10:20:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Postural supports

10:30:00 - 11:20:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Break and Prayers

11:50:00 - 13:00:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Manual and power wheelchairs

13:00:00 - 13:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Wheelchairs Assessments

14:00:00 - 14:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Seat functions

15:00:00 - 15:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Wheelchair functional outcomes

16:00:00 - 16:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Discussion on Wheelchair Training

17:00:00 - 17:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
02/05/2025

Q & A Session

11:20:00 - 11:50:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
03/05/2025

Wheelchairs Clinical Applications

09:00:00 - 12:00:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
03/05/2025

Break and Prayers

12:00:00 - 13:00:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
03/05/2025

Wheelchair fitting and customization

13:00:00 - 16:00:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)
03/05/2025

Special Topics in Wheelchairs

16:00:00 - 17:00:00
Speaker(s): حسان عزالدين سرسك (Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak)