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  2. Patient lift - Wikipedia

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    A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, Hoyer lift, or hydraulic lift) may be either a sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift.This is an assistive device that allows patients in hospitals and nursing homes and people receiving home health care to be transferred between a bed and a chair or other similar resting places, by the use of electrical or hydraulic power.

  3. Orthopedic mattress - Wikipedia

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    An orthopedic mattress (or orthopaedic mattress) is a mattress designed to support the joints, back and overall body. The product is informed by the medical study of orthopaedics which focuses on disorders or deformities of the spine and joints. Orthopaedic mattresses have been created to combat the problems one might experience with a bad back ...

  4. Adjustable bed - Wikipedia

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    Another structural difference is the sliding back mechanism (sometimes called wall hugger or wall climber) which allows to minimise the gap with the back wall when the bed is uplifted, keeps the bedside table within reach, and enables the partners using the bed (if split) to keep eye contact at all times. In the 90's the sliding back mechanism ...

  5. New brain therapy allows paralyzed patients to walk again: 'I ...

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    After having electrodes implanted in the targeted area of his brain and receiving deep brain stimulation, he regained some lower-body mobility. "Last year on vacation, it was no problem to walk a ...

  6. Casualty lifting - Wikipedia

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    A third team member lifts the legs as usual, and a fourth pushes the stretcher. When a heart problem is suspected, the casualty should not lift their arms. In this case, a short strap (4 m; 13 ft) can be used: one extremity is slid under the buttock, the other goes under each armpit (and thus crosses the back of the casualty); the extremities ...

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    To fill in the gaps, though, a personal massager like the TheraGun Handheld Percussion Massage Gun is designed to provide fast, effective relief for neck, back, leg, shoulder and body aches or ...

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