High-back Chair

These pieces of equipment again are much more sophisticated than many of the pieces of older equipment you have in some of your other sites. The various pieces of padding can be used to individualize each chair for the specific person who uses it. Every person has a slightly different need, so each chair can be tailor-made to assist in correct body alignment.

Yeah, I'm enjoying this because it shows the more recent history of medicine, and (after having seen everything before here) it validates me constantly saying how much we have advanced!

And yet in another decade or two we'll talk about how horrible all this "primitive" equipment is. ;-)

I'm sure "spidergirl" will anyway....

Ah, Peaches - you sure knows I lubs ya, huh? :-)

the chair still looks comfortable even today. does it recline?

My mother would love to put me in one of those. She's always bugging me to sit up straight. I can't help it. After swim practice, all my shoulders want to do is slump.

Could this equipment be used today? Or is it too outdated?

It could, although much of it is rather outdated (although certainly better than no equipment at all). As well, sitting around in funky old buildings for decades doesn't always make someone want to use that piece of equipment for their already vulnerable child (unless it can be sterilized and updated).

However, I wrote somewhere else (can't remember where - sorry) that in many cases equipment that is purchased with specific types of funding can't ever be sold, given away, or re-used. It's bizarre, but there were original reasons for those conditions. They might have been worried about someone getting used equipment and the conditions were perhaps so that only the latest equipment could be used. Another reason might have been that they were afraid that people would make a profit off the equipment by re-selling it and it would go to some use for people other than those for whom it was originally designated.

Ironically it has turned into sort of a Catch-22 when all is said and done as far as re-using it.

I have a 5 month old baby, so I can understand about the used equipment and vulnerable children. However, call me optimistic or perhaps unrealistic, but when I see equipment like that, I see possibilities. In the day and age we live in, if people can go in and clean a room where a corpse has been lying for a month and leave said room looking brand new, they can sure find a way to remove mold and sterilize equipment like this.
(I apologize for ranting)
As far as the condition "the latest equipment could only be used" I would like to give the benefit of the doubt and think it would be for safety reasons, ie recalls etc; but it sounds like its more about the almighty dollar so that they will continue to buy the newest line.
I can understand concerns about a family or gods forbid, a facility, selling equipment for money instead of using it for the person who needed it originally.
Your Right, your damned if you do and your damed if you don't.

Medicine , and the integrally related field of electronics, are advancing at a startling rate.

I look at that chair, and then think about how I'm sitting in my uncomfortable second-hand chair, slumped forward and tilted in funny directions. I think sitting in THAT chair would probably hurt for all the right reasons! :P