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Some pictures of our booth and demonstration of the SMS Seating Advice at the Support Exhibition from April 16 untill April 19, 2008.

Below you see some pictures of our booth and demonstration of the SMS Seating Advice at the Support Exhibition from April 16 untill April 19, 2008.
Welzorg has invited us to demonstrate our SMS Seating Advice. Welzorg is a large dealer of rehabilitation aids and will be the first to use the SMS Seating Advice on a large scale.

Both end users and professionals reacted positively on the possibilities that SMS Seating Advice offers. During the exhibition, 34 people recieved a SMS Seating Advice. With 26 people, it was found that their present seating and back support isn't adequate. With 6 people, it was critical, and only 2 people had an adequate aid. 

Twentsche Courant Tubantia, the Telegraaf and the SBS6 channel’s program ‘Hart van Nederland’ (Heart of the Netherlands) featured the news that Willie ten Holder is sitting up again after 21 years, thanks to help from PR Stella’s SMS Seating Advice.

By clicking on the various links below the article, you can watch this item from the Hart van Nederland broadcast, watch the film on the Twentsche Courant Tubantia website or read the extensive article from the paper.

Click here to watch the film that was shown on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in Hart van Nederland on SBS6.
Click here and go to pages 6 and 7 to read the article that appeared in the heal

thcare supplement 'Leven & Laten Leven' (Live & Let Live’ of the Twentsche Courant Tubantia on Friday, December 14th, 2007.
Watch the film of the interview on their website.

The following summary of the article was on the Twentsche Courant Tubantia website (in Dutch) on Friday, December 14th, 2007:

WINTERSWIJK - Willie ten Holder (60) from Winterswijk can sit upright again for the first time in 21 years.

Until recently he had to move about lying on his front on an electric stretcher. Thanks to an invention by some progressive entrepreneurs and specialists from the rehabilitation centre, Het Roessingh in Enschede, NL, he is now using a normal wheelchair again.

Ten Holder was a roofer by trade and, after a work related accident, he eventually ended up in a wheelchair in 1986 with a high leg amputation. Pressure sores eventually made it impossible for him to sit. Under the direction of rehabilitation specialists, metric equipment has now been developed with which a special seat cushion can be produced to exact personal measurements for every patient with pressures sores: a cushion that supports the body without irritating the skin.

According to Louis Huttenhuis, an entrepreneur from PR Sella in Oldenzaal in the Netherlands, this metric equipment is the first of its kind in the world. He plans to start introducing it to ergotherapists and physiotherapists in the eastern region of the Netherlands next year.

- An extensive report on this subject can be found in the healthcare special Tplus Leven & Laten leven that will be included as a supplement with your paper today.