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Fantastic, Feel-Good and Fulfilling Standing: Utilising the F-Words for Child-Centred Standing Frame Prescription

Clinical Articles, Your StoriesBy Rosalyn Durham 1 August 2024

For children with physical disabilities, weightbearing, physical activity and maintaining postural alignment can be crucial for their overall health, development and participation in daily life. Standing frames can become an invaluable tool in achieving these goals and are associated with numerous physical and psychological benefits. [1,2] The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)…

Ellie’s Story: How standing support can be more than just a physical aid

40 Stories for 40 Years, Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Rosalyn Durham 7 September 2023

In our final 40 stories blog post, we hear about Ellie, a young girl who is hard at work developing not just her physical abilities, but her social and communication skills! Meet Ellie. Ellie is 6 years old and lives in Moray, Scotland with her mum, dad and big brother Cameron. Ellie is a big…

Ava’s Story: How Ava uses Jenx equipment for 24-hour postural care

40 Stories for 40 Years, Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Rosalyn Durham 31 August 2023

In this week’s 40 stories blog post, we’re hearing about Ava, who uses both the Jenx Junior + Chair and Standz standing frame for postural support! Meet Ava. She is 6 years old and lives in Essex, UK, with her mum Claire, dad John and little sister Fia. Ava loves swimming, sensory play with lights…

Standing Support at Piccolo Cottolengo Don Orione

40 Stories for 40 YearsBy Rosalyn Durham 24 August 2023

This guest blog is by Matteo Facciani, Product Specialist, Medimec International. Our Italian distributor Medimec facilitates the use of Jenx equipment throughout Italy; including Piccolo Cottolengo Don Orione! Read on to learn how they use equipment like the Jenx Standz 2 to provide postural support for children in their care. Piccolo Cottolengo Don Orione…

Stand By Me: Implementing Standing Frames in Postural Care

40 Stories for 40 YearsBy Rosalyn Durham 13 July 2023

Guest blog by Jamie Cockle, Paediatric Clinical Educator, Medifab Jenx standing frames have been at the forefront of my therapy toolkit ever since I started as a fresh faced, newly graduated Physiotherapist at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital in Cardiff, Wales. Since then, my career has taken me to the other side of the world, continuing…

Inside the Jenx Factory: How a Standz is Made

40 Stories for 40 YearsBy Rosalyn Durham 29 June 2023

Every single Jenx product is handcrafted in our factory. When our UK distributor, Jiraffe, returned to a market leading 5-day despatch, we went inside the factory to see how our equipment is made – see more on the Jiraffe Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Now, here’s the full story! We will follow a Standz abduction stander through…

Penelope’s Story: Atom and Junior+ providing support and growing with Penelope along the way

40 Stories for 40 Years, Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Katy Furlong 8 June 2023

Penelope is 6 years old and lives in County Cork, Ireland, with her mum, dad and 3 younger brothers. She loves going to school to see her friends, watching her favourite TV shows at home with her family and, according to mum Katie, has had a ‘life-long infatuation of Elmo from Sesame Street!’ Penelope has…

Ivy’s Story: How the Bee and Monkey are essential to Ivy’s daily routine

40 Stories for 40 Years, Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Simon Cooke 3 March 2023

Ivy is a 2-year-old who lives in Hampshire, United Kingdom, with her parents and her older sister Riley. She has a diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy and is affected by fatigue, low muscle tone and weakness in all her limbs. Ivy’s mum Leah discusses a small example of the challenges they have faced as a family…

How Standz helped Emma ‘be happier, with less seizure activity and more engagement’

40 Stories for 40 Years, Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Katy Furlong 18 January 2023

Emma is a 7 year old who lives in Utah with her mum Jaclyn, dad Brandon and big sister Ava. Emma was born with a rare disorder called Lissencephaly, whereby whole or parts of the brain appear smooth and do not have the ‘grooves’ or ‘folds’ of a typically developing brain – https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/lissencephaly/ Emma also…

Jenx Monkey Stander gives West Virginia toddler “opportunity to play”

Children's Stories, Your StoriesBy Katy Furlong 12 November 2020

Meet Skylar Henkes – a two-year-old girl from West Virginia, USA, who lives with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and whose life has been transformed by a Jenx Monkey Stander. This month, we are marking the Monkey Stander’s 25th year in production in a number of ways, including by telling moving and inspirational stories of the…

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