Sometimes, it’s the little things that make the biggest impact.  Here at Stealth Products, we do our very best to ship out orders as quickly as possible.  When a large portion of your product line is custom, that makes it more difficult.  We have a group of volunteer employees who regularly look at our processes to make sure that we are working as efficiently as possible.  These Lean Team members recently found what seemed like a small issue, but realized how quickly it compounded and added up to a huge amount of lost time.  They worked quickly to find a simple, but creative solution.  In the end, our employees in…

In this blog series on matching head supports to individual client need, we have discussed unique features of specific head supports and what the clinical benefit of each feature is. Today is no exception! Let’s take a look at the All Positioning series and the Combo series. When is it appropriate to recommend these for a client? The All Positioning head support series provides posterior occipital and suboccipital support in a single pad to facilitate head and neck alignment. Mimicking the shape of a hand behind the client’s head, the angle of the entire pad can be changed and the lateral portion of the suboccipital area can be bent medially…

Ryan is a busy 25 year old man who is getting his Master’s degree in psychology. He likes to go out to eat, claiming his favorite food is whiskey! Ryan also plays video games, even programming the system so that he can control the functions he needs to. Ryan has limited motor control and strength due to a diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy, type II. Ryan was diagnosed with this progressive muscle disease at age 6 months. He was able to drive a power wheelchair for many years using a standard joystick, though this became more and more difficult as his muscle strength deteriorated. A standard joystick requires about 250…