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501(c)(3) nonprofit Pre-beta product concept

Every Chair Deserves a Champ

Explore a concept intended to help users track pressure-relief behaviors and encourage healthy routines through visible progress and illustrative rewards.

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Not clinically validated or available for download. Currently targeting Winter 2026 for continued development; timing and features may change through beta and pilot testing.

Why it matters

Pressure injuries remain a significant health concern.

2.5Mpressure injuries annually in the U.S.
$26Bannual cost of pressure-injury care
Up to 95%reported as potentially preventable with appropriate care

Pressure-relief routines are simple in theory, but hard to sustain in real life.

  • Maintaining recommended routines outside the clinic can be difficult.
  • Reminders alone may not support every user’s routine.
  • Individual risks and pressure-relief needs vary.

These figures summarize published pressure-injury literature. They are not evidence that Chair Champs prevents or reduces pressure injuries.

View research references
  1. Dauterman, N., et al. (2024). Effectively addressing hospital-acquired pressure injuries with a multidisciplinary approach.
  2. Choragudi, S., et al. (2024). Trends in inpatient burden from pressure injuries in the United States.
  3. Gebremeskel, A. T., et al. (2022). Pressure injury prevention practice and associated factors among nurses.
  4. Williamson, S. D., et al. (2025). Self-managed digital technologies for pressure injury prevention.

Our mission

Support routines that matter.

Chair Champs is developing a behavior-based tool for pressure-relief adherence, designed for children, teens, and long-term wheelchair users.

Built on patent-pending technology and real clinical experience, the concept is intended to help users recognize and track recommended pressure-relief behaviors.

Interactive concept

Small wins.
Visible progress.

Explore how Chair Champs is designed to encourage pressure-relief habits through simple goals and feedback.

  • Simple goalsSee what’s next without extra noise.
  • Positive reinforcementCelebrate consistency—not perfection.
  • Meaningful progressMake healthy routines easier to recognize.

This illustrative prototype has not completed beta or pilot validation and is not available for clinical use. Features, performance, and timing may change through testing.

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CHAIR CHAMPS CONCEPT

Encourage consistent habits through small wins.

This limited preview shows a development-stage idea, not demonstrated clinical outcomes.

Track pressure reliefs.

Support a consistent daily routine.

Earn points.

Recognize each completed action.

Redeem rewards.

Explore illustrative reward concepts.

Private development previewAdditional features are intentionally hidden.

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Screen-only demonstration

See a sample task in action.

This screen recording shows the app’s visual guidance during a sample pressure-relief task.

  1. Yellow guidanceContinue tilting backward.
  2. Green guidanceHold the current position.
  3. Visible feedbackThe sample displays the timer and current tilt.

Illustrative playback only. This recording is not evidence of clinical effectiveness. The website does not read device motion or ask visitors to tilt.

Important medical information

Follow your healthcare professional’s guidance.

Chair Champs is a development-stage concept that has not completed beta or pilot validation. It has not been demonstrated to prevent, diagnose, treat, or reduce pressure injuries.

Chair Champs is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care. Users and caregivers should follow the pressure-relief schedule, technique, equipment, and skin-care guidance provided by their qualified healthcare professional. Contact a healthcare professional promptly about skin changes, wounds, pain, or other medical concerns.

Planned experience

Explore a potential rewards experience.

We’re exploring whether tracked pressure-relief behaviors could earn points toward motivating rewards. These examples are not available and depend on future testing, funding, and partnerships.

Gift cards

A potential way to redeem points for useful, flexible rewards.

Concept · partners needed

Raffles

A possible way to use concept points for chances to win future sponsored prizes.

Concept · partners needed

Community prizes

Future rewards informed by what wheelchair users actually value.

Concept · research underway

Website privacy

Clear about this public preview

This website demonstrates a concept. It is separate from the unreleased Chair Champs app and does not provide an app account or clinical service.

Display-only prototype

The prototype on this page does not access device motion, location, health records, or an app account.

Optional updates form

The external Google Form is optional. Do not submit medical or other sensitive information through it.

App policy before testing

Any future beta or pilot will require a separate privacy notice describing actual collection, use, sharing, retention, deletion, and safeguards.

No current app-data promise. Data practices for the unreleased app and backend must be documented from their actual operation before beta, pilot, or public use.

Chair Champs does not currently claim that this development-stage concept is HIPAA compliant, HIPAA certified, clinically validated, or approved for clinical use. This website uses Netlify hosting and Google services for fonts and the optional updates form; those services may process standard technical or form-submission data under their own terms.

Built from experience

Clinical insight, personal purpose.

Drew Petersen

Founder

Drew Petersen, DPT, PCS, MS

Built from real clinical experience with pediatric wheelchair users—from inpatient rehabilitation and wheelchair evaluations to the challenges families face after discharge. Driven further by firsthand experience supporting a family member who uses a tilt-in-space wheelchair.

  • APTA Board-Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist
  • Doctor of Physical Therapy, Drexel University
  • MS, Biomechanics and Movement Science, University of Delaware

Recognition & Scholarship

  • Invited Alumni Speaker — Drexel University DPT Graduation Ceremony, March 2026
  • 9 peer-reviewed publications in the Journal of Sport and Health Science, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Gait & Posture, Journal of Biomechanics, and Clinical Biomechanics
  • Drexel DPT Scholarly Excellence Research Award — 2022
  • Poster Presenter — World Congress of Biomechanics (2018) and American Society of Biomechanics (2017)
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Our board

Executive Board Secretary

Neurologic and geriatric rehabilitation, clinical research coordination for a spinal cord injury RCT at Drexel University, and seating and postural evaluation.

PT, DPT

Executive Board Treasurer

Nonprofit and corporate financial management, accounting, and operations.

BS, Accounting

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