Jenx makes various medical supplies for children with special needs such as muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, to name just a few. Medical supply products for disabled children include positioning products for standing, sitting, and lying down. Here we describe the features and benefits of two Jenx seating systems, the Bee Seating System and their Junior Seating System.
Learn more about Jenx medical supplies for helping a child get into a safe standing position to accomplish some of the tasks of daily living here.
Learn more about two other manufacturers that help children sit, stand, and lay in safe positions:
•Jenx Bee Seating System
The Jenx Bee Seating System is an adjustable and modular medical supply product that enables children from the ages of 4 months to 5 years learn to sit. Various conditions and diseases and disabilities can make it difficult for some children to sit upright and participate with friends and family in conversation, playing, and eating.
Types of sitting enabled by the Bee Seating System:
- Conventional sitting
- reclined sitting
- Tilt-in-Space sitting
- Long leg sitting
The Bee Seating System is a chair on a 4-wheel base that comes with standard and optional accessories that make it a modular system.The modularity is important because it enables the child to get into the necessary position to engage with family members, caregivers, and friends in various ways. In other words it helps the child overcome some of the limitations of their disability.
Ways the Bee Seating System helps a child with a seating disability engage with others:
- The Bee adjusts so the child can get low to the floor to play with siblings and friends.
- The Bee adjusts in height so that the child can be at the table or breakfast bar to participate in family meals.
The Bee motif was designed to make sitting an enjoyable and fun experience that attracts a child to want to use it. The range of height adjustments and functionality adjustments were designed for the system to grow with the child and last for years.
The Bee Seating System includes:
- seat shell
- seat and back pads
- push handle
- footplate
- 3-point pelvic belt
- hip pads
- flat headrest
The base is a required accessory so that you can choose which one you want, or even buy both at the same time.
Optional Accessories:
- short fixed thoracics
- flipaway thoracics with chest strap
- long leg conversion
- armrests
- nursery tray
- activity frame
- knee blocks
- footplate pad
- bootees
- sandals
- abduction block
- Multigrip(tm) shoulder protractor
- Multigrip(tm) headrest
•Jenx Junior Seating System
The Jenx Junior Seating System serves much the same purpose as the Bee System. It does offer a few difference however.
First, the Junior Seating System is modular and adjustable but it also comes in 3 sizes.
Second, while colorful and attractive to both children and adults, it does not go as far as the Bee System to include a character motif in the design.
Third, there are a few positioning components, different from what the Bee offers, that allow new degrees of customized support for the child.
Sizes
- Size 1: Ages 1 to 5 years
- Size 2: Ages 3 to 8 years
- Size 3: Ages 5 to 12 years
Key Features of the Junior Seating System
- The seat is a molded and contoured cushion encased in polyurethane. The polyurethane makes this medical supply easy to wipe down and clean with regular or antimicrobial cleaning solvents and wipes. The polyurethane also prevents liquid from penetrating its skin so that the cushion remains dry.
- The cushion has a memory foam insert/
- Like the Bee System, the Y-Base offers the largest range of height adjustability, bringing the child close to the floor or elevated to the dinner table or breakfast bar.
- Several optional components to further customize the Junior Seating System to meet the child's unique needs.
- The cushion and pad covers are reversible and washable.
The Junior Seating System includes:
- seat shell
- seat and back pads
- footplate
- 4-point pelvic belt
- hip pads
The Junior Seating System Optional Accessories:
- An Ischial bar (prevents the child from slipping into sacral sitting)
- An Interface Plate (allows caregiver to adjust the headrest level to accommodate the child)
- Translucent tray infill (designed for stickers to be placed under the surface to assist communication
- Fold-down push handle
- flipaway thoracics with chest strap
- tray arms
- gray tray with black trim
- hip pad extensions
- headrests
- Multigrip(tm) headrest
- Zip waistcoat harness
- sandals
- Shoulder protractor