CONSOLOR LTD - Specialised Seating and Rehabilitation Product Manufacturer

Clinical Service

Consolor Ltd provides a special seating service to an ever increasing number of NHS wheelchair services across England. We are also able to provide products and services to private clients. In many of these clinics Consolor is the only special seating company that provides custom-made seating products within that clinic, due to our wide range of types of seats.

As Consolor is able to offer the whole range of custom-made seating solutions, the decision as to which type of seat does not need to be made prior to booking the client into a special seating clinic. The decision for which type of seat can be made by the whole multi disciplinary team during and after the assessment and casting.

Consolor is able to offer the range of seating systems that are
detailed on the pages of this website: Carved Foam, Moulded,
Matrix and modular. To accompany these a whole range of
accessories are available such as head supports, belts, harnesses,
foot supports, arm supports and trays. In addition Consolor can
offer impartial advice on the suitability of other manufacturers
products and in many cases also source and provide these products.

The Assessment/Moulding Process

An assessment for specialised seating involves the input of a multidisciplinary team, including the parents or carers of the client. An understanding of the client’s physical, social and environmental needs will have to be determined in order that appropriate equipment is prescribed.

A physical assessment is carried out to establish the client’s ideal seated posture. Then a cast of the client is taken…

The Casting Process

This is the crucial stage in the prescription of a contoured seating system. It is down to the skills and ability of the seating engineer who is carrying out the casting, as to how close the seat will be to the ideal seated posture.

The client is sat onto a polystyrene bead bag, which is itself placed onto an adjustable wheelchair. The wheelchair’s backrest and seat are positioned at appropriate angles for the individual’s intended seating position. The bead bag is attached to a vacuum pump, it is then formed, by the seating engineer, around the client’s body. A negative impression of the client’s anatomy is the resultant shape in the bead bag.

In essence the bead bag acts as a temporary seat. When the ideal seated position has been achieved, the client is removed from the bead bag. The bag holds its shape because the air has been removed from it by the vacuum pump. Plaster bandage is then draped and smoothed over the surface of the bag in order to make a permanent copy of the achieved shape.

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