General Information
We would like to thank our exhibitors for supporting the
European Seating Symposium 2021
Anatomic Sitt
Pioneers in Individual seating (M.S.I & Moulds)
Full range of Dynamic seating systems including Delphi, Sharky and Pengy.
Worldwide distribution.
BES Healthcare Ireland
This year sees the launch of BES Healthcare Ireland – a subsidiary of BES Healthcare Ltd which has been serving the UK and Irish healthcare markets for three decades. BES supports clinicians and professionals who are responsible for the prescription and provision of equipment to individuals with disabilities.
On stand 28 this year, BES will be joined by their partner, the internationally renowned Bodypoint – manufacturers of world-class belts and harnesses for wheelchair users. BES will also be exhibiting the Aergo PS – the world’s first fully responsive postural management seating system. Using smart air cell technology, the Aergo PS puts children and young people who need postural support back in control, so they can feel comfortable and independent wherever they go and whatever they do.
BES Healthcare Ireland are distributors for leading industry manufacturers such as Bodypoint belts and harnesses, Stealth supports, Varilite cushions, BodiTrak pressure mapping systems, AquaPhase equipment washers and are the manufacturers of the JonVac bath support and the Breezi postural seating system.
Bodypoint
Wheelchair positioning is all we do at Bodypoint, for thousands of very important reasons: our users. For 28 years, we’ve created better connections between wheelchairs and people. From shoulders to feet, Bodypoint offers a range of thoughtfully-designed postural supports in sizes to fit both pediatric and adult users.
A strong position may help an individual prevent a pressure ulcer, win a Paralympic medal, or eat a slice of pizza, but for someone in a wheelchair, even the smallest details can make a big difference to improving their mobility and independence.
That’s why we design and manufacture our products in Seattle, Washington for optimal fit, function, durability, comfort and safety. We are the only postural support line known to test to all applicable ISO and ANSI/RESNA standards, and we offer a limited lifetime warranty.
Bodypoint is available in more than 40 countries through our extensive partnership network of US dealers, international distributors, and wheelchair manufacturers.
Consolor
Consolor Ltd, part of the Millbrook Healthcare group is a market leading assessor, manufacturer and provider of postural solutions to a wide range of customers that include wheelchair services, community services, education, case management providers, charities and private clients and we are delighted to be supporting our partner HC21 at this year’s ESS exhibition.
On our stand we have our latest Carved Foam seating solutions which are manufactured using a range of foam densities to deliver the optimum solution, in either a one-piece or two-piece format. All of our carved and moulded solutions are manufactured using the latest digital technology, ensuring the highest levels of both quality and accuracy are achieved.
We will also be presenting our new SOLO modular seating system, designed to offer vastly improved levels of pelvic positioning, along with generous levels of growth and positional adjustment.
All of our products easily transferable between wheelchairs though the use of our new slimline interface system
We will also be showing our latest seating accessories which include our new range of postural harnesses, headrests including the new KYEON headrest solution for 3 point head/neck positioning.
Consolor & HC21 look forward to welcoming you to ESS 2020.
Gel Ovations
Gel Ovations products are used globally throughout all healthcare sectors providing pressure management solutions for wheelchairs, mobility aids and all types of seating. Widely issued by Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Specialists and Nurses, our family of Gel based medical products provide over 300 solutions for all pressure care requirements. The focus at this year’s European Seating Symposium will be on our hardware products that include Hip Guides, the Forehead Stabiliser and new look Lateral Supports.
HC Healthcare 21
Healthcare 21 are once again delighted to be sponsoring AWR Europe at the Royal College of Physicians.
Healthcare 21 are Europe’s No1 independent medical device distributor offering sales, marketing and technical services solutions for many of the world’s leading healthcare equipment manufacturers.
Please come and visit us to find out information about:
ArtiSential – our revolutionary articulating laparoscopic instruments. Bringing precision surgery into the hands of the surgeon.
PlasmaJet Ultra+ - The new PlasmaJet system utilises kinetic energy and highly controlled thermal effects to treat tissue through kinetic dissection, microlayer vaporisation and surface sealing.
Strattice & Strattice Extra Thick acellular dermal matrices for complex abdominal wall reconstruction.
Swing Mesh – synthetic mesh for all hernia repair.
Symmetrikit Postural Care a division of Sunrise Medical
We will be showcasing the Symmetrikit Tiltrite and Avanti Chairs which are distributed throughout Ireland by Moorings Mediquip. Symmetrikit have been designing and manufacturing Postural Care Innovations for over 25 years. Their seating options are supplied in to the domestic environment, Care Home/Residential setting, the Acute Sector and even in to Special Schools. The Symmetrikit Tiltrite and Avanti chairs are supported by a team of Moorings’ Sales Advisors and are offered with a full assessment and support service.
Invacare
Invacare traces its roots back to 1885 when the Worthington Company began producing a line of vehicles for people with physical disabilities. Through the years, the Company has grown and expanded dramatically. The history of Invacare, as it is known today, began in the late 1970s. At that time, Technicare, a Cleveland-based medical-device manufacturer, was purchased by Johnson & Johnson. They decided to sell the wheelchair division known as Invacare. A. Malachi Mixon III, who worked as a vice president of marketing at Technicare, organised a small group of investors, including J.B. Richey, to raise the $7.8 million needed for the purchase. Through the years listening to its customers, Invacare has grown and expanded to become the preferred supplier in healthcare both in terms of customer support and innovation. Today Invacare is a modern, global, market-leading business with a rich and fascinating history; one that dates back to 1885. We are the global leader in the manufacture and distribution of innovative home and long-term care medical products that promote recovery and active lifestyles. Worldwide we employ over 5,000 people and market our products in 100 countries around the world. Within EMEA, Invacare directly operate in all European countries and via a distributor network in the Eastern European, Middle Eastern and African regions.
Ki Mobility
Ki Mobility is dedicated to providing and developing best-in-class seating and mobility products that provide optimal performance, experience, and value to our customer. We recognize that in today’s market, service is part of the product, and a great product experience lasts a lifetime. With Ki Mobility, you will find that both our people and our products remain accessible and available to you as we strive to create a unique place in the market by offering you more than just best-in-class products. Our products and experiences are both Better by Design.
LC Seating
LC Seating (LCS) manufactures and provides quality, custom-made seating solutions for wheelchair users.
LC Seating (LCS) works with the world’s leading wheelchair and seating providers to offer a wide range of high-quality seating solutions including our own custom-made seating and a broad selection of accessories for the wheelchair user.
Working with therapists, wheelchair users, their families and carers, LCS finds the perfect fit to provide the smile factor. When the person using our seating system smiles, everyone around them smiles too.
Life Mobility
Life & Mobility is an innovative Dutch manufacturer of wheelchairs and mobility scooters. All our activities are focused on helping people with a functional impairment to maximise their potential to participate in social life. We seek to extend boundaries for them, with innovative and unique solutions that bring opportunities for further participation and development within reach.
Our head office is based in Doetinchem, the Netherlands, and Life & Mobility has subidiaries in Germany, France and Belgium. Thanks to our own research and development department, we can respond well to different customer needs. In doing so we work closely with all partners in the various parts of the care chain.
Good examples of them will be exhibited in the Life & Mobility booth, like the manual wheelchairs Roxx and Canto Nxt with our revolutionary Newton seating system. Furthermore, you will find our Kelvin seating solution for users with severe pain symptoms, increased muscular tension or contracture. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
MMS Medical
MMS Medical, established in 1986, is one of Ireland’s leading suppliers in the areas of mobility, rehabilitation, disabled access, community care and specialist hospital products. At MMS Medical we are committed to providing safe and reliable equipment for people with reduced mobility and those who care for them, to help make their everyday life easier. MMS Medical work with the HSE, public and private hospitals, nursing homes, charities and private clients. With over 30 years industry experience, MMS Medical has earned the deserved reputation as a high quality provider of an extensive range of products from exclusive manufacturers and distributors.
mo-Vis
mo-vis develops, produces and commercializes special input devices and their accessories for users of power wheelchairs worldwide. We want to help as many people with motor disabilities as possible, by offering innovative and practical solutions.
mo-vis stands for ‘move with vision’. The name explains what our goal has been since 2013: we believe in the power of innovation. Because of this, we challenge ourselves every day to keep moving forward. And of course, we don't do that alone. We work together with different stakeholders, such as research centres, universities and specialized rehabilitation centers and their residents. They are involved in thinking along, in testing and evaluating the concepts and projects in development.
We can also rely on a worldwide network of trusted dealers. There too we strive for quality and a high level of service and knowledge. We believe that together we can really make a difference in the lives of others.
Momentum Healthcare
Momentum Healthcare seek out high quality, innovative products that are produced with care and attention to design, keeping the end user at the forefront of their objectives. We represent a variety of companies with this aim, from all over the World in the Irish market, supplying the HSE, charities, and the end user directly.
Our focus is on a superior quality of customer service, knowledge in our field, and representing our suppliers and their ambitions for their products and designs in an ever growing and evolving mobility market. We supply the following range of products; wheelchair, powered wheelchairs, powered add-ons, moulded seating, specialist seating, buggies, therapy aids, orthotics and a range of dynamic mobile arm supports. Our full range of products are available to view on our website.
Moorings Mediquip
With its headquarters in Ballymena Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, Moorings Mediquip are a leading supplier to the healthcare industry in UK and Ireland. The Ballymena site has a large showroom combined with offices and warehousing.
The Company has a further showroom, office and warehouse facility in Forres, near Inverness, Scotland.
Established in 1992, the Company is passionate in sourcing the best equipment possible for those with special needs.
The Company serves as the exclusive distributor in the UK and Ireland for a number of products – the range changes slightly depending on area but includes Seating, Sensory Equipment, Walkers and Standers, Trikes, Buggies, Wheelchairs and Sleep Systems.
Moorings Mediquip is also the manufacturer of the innovative Buddy Roamer Walker which is sold in numerous countries worldwide. More details are available at www.buddyroamer.com.
An experienced and committed team of Area Consultants are based throughout UK and Ireland giving local yet nationwide coverage. They work alongside existing therapists ensuring a fully professional approach to the provision of equipment and services.
Free home or facility assessments can be arranged to ensure that a piece of equipment is fully suited to the needs of the patient.
Full details of all products can be seen at www.mooringsmediquip.com or for more information call 028 2563 2777 or email sales@mooringsmediquip.com.
Ottobock
Ottobock is a world-leading supplier of high quality, innovative and practical solutions that restore human mobility and help people to rediscover personal independence. Ottobock will be showcasing the B400, a compact and comfortable powered wheelchair designed for use both outdoors and inside the home. Ottobock’s range of special seating solutions, which are custom designed to promote user support and comfort, will be presented and available for review. With its wide product range Ottobock aims to achieve the best possible outcome for its customers, combining the latest technology with cutting-edge products and services.
Pro Medicare
Pro Medicare Srl is a Medical Devices manufacturer based in Italy. In particular, it manufactures:
- Positioning Systems for wheel chair users;
- Positioning Systems for bed ridden and hospitalized users;
- Postural System for Equine Assisted Therapy
- Physical Barriers for seats and accessories designed to provide Infection Prevention caused by the contact with infected surfaces
It operates throughout Italy and in some foreign countries, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Portugal, Ireland, Australia and Japan.
The company, which has been operating since 25 years, enjoys an excellent national and international reputation which consists in the uniqueness and quality of the solutions it offers; Pro Medicare solutions provide real answers to the needs of the most complex pathologies and postural problems.
In the context of COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency, Pro Medicare is one of the COVID-19 Health emergency national suppliers of Equipment, Devices and related services (Category: Patients Pronation Positioning System) for Intensive and Sub-Intensive Care Units.The company has been selected in a portfolio of 400 Italian Company to benefit of technical assistance to increase production capacity, funded by the International Development Agency USAID in the framework of the programme USAID INVEST: Supporting the private sector’s response to COVID-19 in Italy.
Quantum Rehab
Clinically-focused and consumer-inspired, Quantum Rehab products are engineered and manufactured to meet the widest range of complex rehab needs with functional, durable, stylized, high-performance designs to increase daily functionality and quality of life.
Quantum Rehab was born out of the desire to delight customers with the most advanced, consumer-inspired complex rehab power wheelchairs and related technologies possible. From the most advanced power seating for pressure management to USB ports, Bluetooth and fender lights, no consumer need is overlooked.
Quantum leads the market with innovations in power bases, seating and drive controls. As a global innovator, Quantum products include the Edge 3, Q6 Edge 2.0, 4Front, and other power bases, iLevel seat elevation technology, TRU-Balance 3 Power Positioning Systems, Q-Logic 3 Advanced Drive Control System, and Stealth Products positioning components.
With the US head office in Duryea, Pennsylvania and the UK head office in Bicester, Oxford, Quantum also has operations in Australia, Canada, China, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Raz Design Inc
Raz Design manufactures Mobile Shower Commode Chairs that can be prescribed, configured and adjusted to meet specific user needs.
Raz’s industry-leading products provide unparalleled quality, accessibility, functionality and comfort for users with basic bathroom safety needs to users with complex rehab disabilities such as spinal cord injuries and neuromuscular diseases. We offer 17 different standard-sized seats that are soft / contoured to reduce sitting pressures and help stabilize the pelvis. Only Raz has the Ischial Pelvic Alignment System (IPAS), which provides 5cm fore / aft seat adjustment to accommodate the user’s position / rotation of the pelvis, improve alignment of users’ ITs with the commode aperture and help reduce peak pressures.
For more information visit: www.razdesigninc.com
Schuchmann
Our family-run company is now in its second generation, and our company has in the meantime gathered almost 40 years of experience in producing and selling childrens' therapy equipment.
It is a matter close to our hearts to support children with individual requirements as optimally as possible - using products which are just as individual as you are.
What we move.
Our claim is to support children with disabilities so that they can become more mobile and independent. At the same time, our task has more far-reaching implications. Our meanwhile 160-man team works closely with specialist dealers, doctors and therapists so that we can truly comprehend the requirements of the children and their families. An extremely moving process for all those involved.
For this reason, our products represent more than just products. They become companions for life. And last of all, we want to get the market moving- with real innovations in therapy equipment which fulfil the maximum demands on functionality, design and safety.
Seating Dynamics
Dynamic Seating, What is it?
Dynamic seating allows movement within the wheelchair seating system in response to force from the client. Dynamic components absorb force which, can prevent damage to the wheelchair frame and in turn, assists the client back to a starting position maintaining posture.
What does it do, who can benefit from dynamic seating?
Dynamic seating is used in three main clinical scenarios. First, to diffuse force, for example with clients who have increased muscle tone. Dynamic components absorb extensor forces that could otherwise lead to client injury, equipment breakage, decreased sitting tolerance, increased agitation, decreased function, further increases in extension, and energy consumption. Secondly, it allows movement, for example with clients who seek out movement. Dynamic components allow movement that provides vestibular input, increases alertness, and decreases agitation. Thirdly, dynamic seating can improve postural control, stability and function.
What does Seating Dynamics do?
Seating Dynamics is the recognized name in the field, having been solving movement problems through innovative quality design and aerospace quality manufacturing for almost twenty years. We provide components which retrofit on to many different makes and models of wheelchairs providing movement at the head, pelvis / back and the knee.
Specialised Orthotic Services
Specialised Orthotic Services are dedicated to providing a service that is second-to-none for special seating needs. We put our customers at the heart of everything that we do.
At SOS, we know that posture is incredibly important. With effective early intervention and continual clinical follow up, postural management is improved to make a real difference to our end user’s lives; both their health outcomes and their well-being.
Our vision is to provide the best possible innovative special seating systems, and other rehabilitation products, coupled with a quality service to our clients no matter how complex their disabilities.
We achieve this by working closely with individuals, clinicians and carers to design products which deliver practical solutions ensuring that end user’s needs are met to help them better face their daily challenges.
Spex Seating
Commencing in 1990, Spex Seating has many years’ experience in the design and manufacturing of wheelchair seating and positioning equipment. Our progressive technologies and developments provide comfort and positioning for people who use a wheelchair. Our mission is to improve and benefit the lives of these people. We are enthusiastic and passionate about getting professional results for professional people.
Through the years of our experience and acquaintance with implementing specialised wheelchair seating for complex and challenging disabilities, we have established our Spex Seating brand to become a leading and unrivalled modular off-the-shelf seating choice.
Distinguished by high standards of design and clinical evaluation, Spex delivers an uncompromising seating choice packed with clever advantages. The experience of working with Spex Seating provides a blend of form and function.
We invite you to join us in our journey of ‘shaping better lives’.
Sunrise Medical
Sunrise Medical is a world leader in the development, design, manufacture and distribution of innovative, high-quality manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, motorized scooters, standard and modified seating and positioning systems, and daily living aids.
Our key products, marketed under leading brands like QUICKIE, JAY, ZIPPIE, LECKEY, RGK, MAGIC, and BREEZY are sold through a network of homecare medical product dealers or distributors in over 130 countries. Sunrise Medical’s headquarters are based in Malsch, Germany; with North American headquarters in Fresno, California.
Sunrise Medical leads in the design, manufacturing and marketing of innovative, high-quality mobility products and services. Good examples of them will be exhibited in the Sunrise Medical booth, like the new high end power chair seating system “SEDEO PRO ADVANCED” the JAY BALANCE cushions with interesting news, the new LECKEY BEME seating system, the revolutionary RGK VEYPR made to measure carbon chair, the new Empulse power add-ons, or the innovative Nowtech VIGO head control.
Stylite Designs
Stylite Designs, a market leader in the design and manufacture of manual and powered mobility solutions, provides a range of built-to-requirement wheelchairs, seating and positioning solutions. Sharing the user’s perspective, Stylite’s unique insight into the needs and desires of each individual, motivates our goal – to dramatically improve user experience and comfort providing a new independence for a life lived to the full.
After 39 years Stylite continues to provide mobility solutions based on the built to requirement concept. Our product range has expanded and evolved to the largest range of custom-built manual and powered wheelchairs, seating and posture solutions available in Ireland. For more information please visit our website www.stylitedesigns.com
Supportec
For almost 20 years, Supportec creates tailor-made orthoses and serve orthopaedic consultants and orthopaedic companies worldwide. We combine our expertise in orthotics with the latest techniques and technology using patented production processes.
We ensure the products are moulded exactly to the body shape of the person using the orthosis in order to provide the ideal fit and an optimal feeling of comfort for the patient.
Based in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, we use four digital production methods: precision 3D milling, coating, vacuum thermo forming and a unique waterproofing method. Next to that, we have developed our in-house TEC3D app and SOFA with which every orthopaedic consultant can digitally indicate the requirements needed for the orthosis.
By combining craftsmanship with unique production processes we meet all strict quality requirements to provide expertise, reliable service and transparency.
For more information, visit our website https://supportec.nl/?lang=en.
Trulife
Trulife is a global business with over 60 years’ experience as a leading manufacturer of medical devices and specialist healthcare products.
Trulife manufactures top quality products for a number of healthcare disciplines including; Prosthetics, Orthotics, Breastcare and Pressurecare.
Trulife’s core philosophy is a belief in serving customer needs through excellence in product innovation and quality in everything we do.
Our Relax range of Wheelchair cushions offers high quality seating solutions across all patient risk levels.
Manufactured at our world-class facility in Dublin, Relax cushions utilise an optimised combination of fast & slow recovery foam, with integrated silicone gel to provide effective pressure relief and maximum patient comfort. Also offering a range of gel and air based cushions which provide exceptional pressure relief for high risk patients.
Vicair
Vicair provides high quality air based seating solutions to wheelchair users, offering them the unique combination of superior pressure redistribution, positioning, and stability. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our users’ quality of life and believe that adaptation to body contours, pressure redistribution and helping to minimize shear in a favourable microclimate are key in the fight against pressure ulcers.
As of 2020 we are fully focused on the Vicair O2 range, an innovation that optimized the microclimate control features of Vicair wheelchair cushions. During the past year the complete wheelchair seat cushion range has been transformed into Vicair O2 cushions. Adding the benefits of moisture and temperature regulation to all cushion models, next to their already superior pressure redistribution and positioning qualities. All Vicair O2 cushions are fully machine washable adding to hygienic features and ease of use.
We are also proud to present the very first Vicair O2 back support cushion, continuing our drive to keep on innovating.
Our small but passionate team works to achieve the best possible results every single day, because we believe that every wheelchair user has the right to optimal protection and maximum freedom.
Vicair – Relief by air
XSENSOR
For 25 years, XSENSOR Technology has set the standard for accurate sensors and image quality in software — to capture, visualize, and analyze pressure data.
Today, XSENSOR innovates and partners with the most demanding customers in the world to explore what is possible with Intelligent Dynamic Sensing, which enables maximum precision measurements, highest quality visualizations, and AI-powered data analysis, resulting in optimized levels of product performance, comfort, and safety.
Customers universally rely on XSENSOR for accurate, reliable sensors, superior software tools, and outstanding product support.
Beechfield Healthcare
Beechfield Healthcare is an Irish healthcare provider that provides quality healthcare products that patients recommend to their family and friends, therapists prescribe for their patients and the HSE select for their clients.
Our goal is to provide healthcare equipment to people in Ireland that improves the quality of their lives. We strive to offer superior quality mobility, community care, ADL (Aids for Daily Living) and rehabilitation products that fully meet and surpass the requirements and expectations of our customers.
At the core of our organisation is ‘an ethos of caring’. Our daily ambition is to constantly improve what we do and how we do it so that we can uphold our integrity and what is important to us, our customers.
Beechfield represents internationally recognised healthcare brands in Ireland including Drive Medical, Thera Trainer, Savvi, Kinestica, Sidhill, Select Healthcare, Smithcare, Ato Form, AgeUK, N&C Phlexicare, Nymas, Plinth2000 and Chiltern Invadex.