From the iNRRTS Office

Happy 2025!

WRITTEN BY: Jason Kelln, ATP, CRTS®

When I was a young man … . I always felt September of the start of the school year was like New Year’s. Starting something new, learning new things.

As I got older, and New Year’s became a time of cleaning the slate, beginning things anew.

Welcome to 2025. I hope this new year will find you healthy and re-invigorated after a holiday season.

I am not one to make New Year’s resolutions as sometimes due to the nature of things we get busy and have to stop perhaps.

I do look at bettering my self, educating myself and learning new things if possible. As iNRRTS kicks off a new year of education, it is a very exciting time. Great webinars have been scheduled and iNRRTS continues to bring some of the best education to our Registrants, our Friends of iNRRTS and clinicians, all with the end goal of ensuring that end users will be served.

Great professionals are always seeking to upgrade themselves, to better educate and be the best they can be, it is essentially what sets them apart from others in their field.

Having the iNRRTS designation, RRTS® or CRTS®, and taking part in the Live Webinars, is a great way to ask the experts who are presenting a question others may want to ask. You also can take the on-demand courses at your leisure. These are a benefit of being a Registrant.

I hope people reading this will be able to attend the upcoming International Seating Symposium in Pittsburgh. This has multiple benefits for our practices. We see new and cutting-edge equipment. We have the opportunity to see the people and the companies we deal with. We can talk to them face-to-face and build a rapport. CEU credits are available for recertification. iNRRTS will have a booth and our awards night.

Lastly, I want to share a real-life story, we all have many. Recently I was running an errand around town. As I was waiting in line, a gentleman from our local Air Force base came in behind me. I immediately recognized the patches on his uniform as he was with our aerobatics team.

I opened the conversation with him by thanking him for his service. He and I chatted about his career; he had done search and rescue, was a trainer and now had risen to commander of the aerobatics team.

As we were about to end our conversation, the line had started to move, I said, “A couple years ago one of your planes crashed on the west coast, my company helped to provide equipment for the injured pilot while they were recovering.” He immediately craned his head to see my company logo. “Oh yeah, that was great, thank you. That pilot is back flying with us.

Thank you!”

Most often we are seeing clients with lifelong or life-changing diagnosis, we occasionally see a client who has a short-term injury that is still catastrophic, both deserve our best service. It is nice to see not just the impact we have on our clients but also the other people in their lives.

Keeping up service and quality education is something we can all commit to this 2025.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR

Jason may be reached at JASON@PHMOBILITY.COM

Jason Kelln, ATP, CRTS®, is president of iNRRTS and became the first Canadian iNRRTS Registrant in 2018. Kelln serves on the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America’s Professional Standards Board and is an owner of PrairieHeart Mobility since 2022.