Wheelchairs & Mobility Aids for POTS

Who this is for

If you have ever stood in a line doing the math nobody else is running, how long until the floor goes soft, where the nearest wall is, this is for you. It is for the person who can technically walk, some days, and has been told that means a mobility aid is not allowed. There is a truer frame: unreliably ambulatory is a real thing a body can be, and both kinds of days belong to the same real you.

What we cover, live

• Why upright is expensive. The physiology that makes the permission sound: where the blood actually goes when you stand, and why standing still is the hardest thing you do all day.
• The menu of choices. The four avenues, from the custom ultralight manual chair to the portable powered travel device, plus the everyday aids nobody counts, so you walk into any appointment already knowing what exists.
• The configuration that fits a POTS body. Why seat width, seat dump, wheel type, and power assist are physiology decisions, not preferences.
• The energy math. What a power assist actually changes for an exercise-intolerant body, and why "just push yourself" was never the answer.
• What qualifying really looks like. The general criteria insurers care about, in plain language, and the whole pathway: PT seating evaluation, assistive technology evaluation, your doctor, the vendor, the fitting.
• Your questions, answered live.

You leave holding

A fillable take-away packet, yours to keep:

• Your Mobility Menu. The four avenues and the everyday aids, with what each buys you and what it costs you.
• The Energy Ledger. A week of tracking what standing and walking actually cost.
• Bring This To Your Provider. The function-based language that helps a real limitation get seen, with room for your own examples.
• The Insurance Pathway, step by step. The whole process demystified, so none of it can scare you off.
• Questions For Your Seating Evaluation. So you arrive at that room with standing.

How it stays gentle

Cameras optional. Captions on. Attend lying down, in the dark, under a weighted blanket, however your body does Thursdays. There is one built-in pause in the middle. If your body cancels on the day, nothing is lost: every registrant gets the replay, so saving your seat also saves your recording.

What this is not

This is education, not a medical-necessity clinic. Nobody leaves here diagnosed, prescribed to, or filing paperwork. The real choice and fitting happen with your own PT and an assistive technology professional, and that is exactly the point: this workshop is how you arrive at that room with language, options, and the standing to ask for what you need. Julie Griffis, PT is not a medical doctor, and this workshop is not individualized medical care.

Who is teaching

I am Julie Griffis, a physical therapist who has spent years working with hypermobile, dysautonomic, sensitive bodies. Custom wheelchairs are some of my most-requested work, and I teach this the way I practice it: the mechanism explained clearly, the process demystified, and your authority over your own body kept where it belongs, which is with you.

What comes after

The workshop pairs with Steady Steps, the twelve-week live POTS recovery program starting September 3. A mobility aid is a pacing tool: it frees up energy, and Steady Steps is where you learn to spend that energy on purpose. $50 of your workshop fee applies toward Steady Steps enrollment; your credit arrives by email after the workshop. Prefer self-paced? A $49 DazzlEd version of this workshop, built from the recording, lands on the Classes shelf afterward.

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