About Bryan Clever, COTA/L, ATP
The story behind Just B Clever
Hi, I’m Bryan Clever — a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant and Assistive Technology Professional with over a decade of experience in rehabilitation and complex rehab technology.
I started my OT career in skilled nursing facilities back in 2012. I was a generalist clinician doing what generalist clinicians do — a little of everything. But somewhere along the way I became “the wheelchair guy.” Colleagues started coming to me with seating questions. Administrators would route complex mobility cases in my direction. I didn’t plan it that way, but I stopped fighting it.
In 2016 I moved into home health, and by 2017 I had transitioned fully into assistive technology and earned my ATP credential. I spent two and a half years working with a major CRT supplier — and that experience changed how I saw the entire field.
What I saw on the supplier side was a knowledge gap so wide it was affecting real clinical outcomes. Most therapists — through no fault of their own — enter practice with minimal training in complex rehab technology. It is simply not covered adequately in most OT or PT programs. And if the therapist doesn’t know, the wheelchair user doesn’t know, and the caregiver doesn’t know — and suddenly everyone is navigating one of the most clinically complex and financially complicated areas of healthcare without a map.
That’s the problem Just B Clever exists to solve.
Since 2019 I have worked for a nonprofit complex rehab technology reuse organization, where I assess clients for appropriate seating and mobility solutions, source equipment from our warehouse inventory, and assemble and configure it to meet each client’s specific clinical needs. I work with clients referred from local specialized hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, schools, and case managers serving uninsured and non-citizen populations. Every single day I see what happens when people are well-informed about their CRT options — and what happens when they are not.
I created Just B Clever because more therapists need this training, and more wheelchair users and caregivers deserve to be well-informed. The content here is built from real clinical experience — not vendor marketing, not textbook theory alone, and not oversimplified generalizations. It is practical, evidence-based, and designed for people who need it to actually work.
A note on independence:
Just B Clever is not affiliated with any equipment manufacturer, supplier, or vendor. All clinical education content reflects my independent professional judgment. When I recommend a product or approach, it is because the evidence and my clinical experience support it — full stop.
Content on this site is for educational purposes only and does not constitute individual medical advice or a substitute for evaluation by a qualified clinician.