Wheelchair Footrests: Applying the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to Product Innovation

As an occupational therapist employed with a large skilled nursing home, I frequently ran into the challenge of not finding the footrest that belonged to a wheelchair that I had issued to a client. As a result, I found myself mixing and matching footrests, which used up valuable time. This challenge of missing footrests took on a new meaning for me when I was promoted to lead a team of approximately 30 clinicians. The clinicians were using up valuable time looking for congruent