Håkan Skenhede Active Rehab Equipment (Friday, Limelight 1 Room, 11-1)

1. Safe patient handling
Challengingbehaviour
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2. Ethics
• All solutions should be with minimum force
and minimum violence!
• All solutions must be able to integrate in your
patient handling.

3. Three different patients
• Positive active
• Passive
• Negative active

4. Whyaggresive?
• Scared?
• Pain?
• Disorientated?
• Medical reason?

5. Pain
• A good grip has to havecontact with the inside
of the hand.
Exercise

6. Force creates an opposite force
• The more force you apply the more force is
likely to come back to you.
Exercise

7. Balance
• If you put the patient in an unbalanced
position theywillincreaseforce/muscle activity
Exercise

8. Naturalpattern
• Sincewewereyoungwehavebeenfollowing the
naturalpattern. If you dontfollow that when
you move the patient theywill not help you.
Maybetheywillevenresist or fight back.
Exercises: sitting down, walking,