Equipment Clinic

We evaluate your child’s needs and bring together a team of health care professionals to provide equipment support and services, including:

• Seating and Positioning Assessment — Evaluate your child’s seating system and adjust it, if needed, for better comfort, alignment, and function.
• Wheelchair Evaluation and Fitting — assess the need for a manual or power wheelchair. We also consider your home and car to make sure a wheelchair will fit, explain how to transport it, and measure to determine specifications.
• Additional Medical Equipment Support — Assess and measure for equipment such as adapted strollers, alternative seating systems for home and school, bath and shower chairs, canes, crutches, gait trainers, lifts, standers, walkers, beds, and more.
• Orthotics and Prosthetics — Evaluate, cast and fit for orthotics, prosthetics or artificial supports to improve balance, gait and alignment.
• Family Training — We educate and train your child and the entire family to safely use, maintain, and set up and break down each piece of equipment.

We offer the Equipment Clinic at:

• The HSC Pediatric Center
  1731 Bunker Hill Road, NE
  Washington, DC 20017
   
• The HSC Outpatient Center
  Prince George's County Location
  4500 Forbes Boulevard
  Lanham, MD 20706
  
• Montgomery County Location
  14995 Shady Grove Road, 
  Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20850
  
  To schedule an appointment, call 202-635-6167 weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
   
• Mobility Machine, Eastern Shore of Maryland
  To make a referral or schedule a clinic in your area, contact Shannon Bowles, PT, ATP/SMS at 1-888-318-5380 or sbowles@hospsc.org.