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  2. Medical restraint - Wikipedia

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    Face down restraints are used more often on women and girls than on men. 51 out of 58 mental health trusts use restraints unnecessarily when other techniques would work. [29] Organizations opposed to restraints include Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. YoungMinds and Agenda claim restraints are "frightening and humiliating" and "re-traumatises ...

  3. Limb restraint - Wikipedia

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    Limb restraints can be fabric, leather or metal. The most commonly used type of limb restraints are fabric restraints. If fabric restraints are inadequate to restrain a patient, leather or metal restraints can be used. In most places, legal restrictions apply to the use of restraints in clinical settings.

  4. Padded cell - Wikipedia

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    A no longer in use padded cell at the Old Melbourne Gaol in Melbourne, Australia.Photographed in 2012. A woman in a seclusion room, 1889. A padded cell or seclusion room is a controversial enclosure used in a psychiatric hospital or a special education setting in a private or public school, in which there are cushions lining the walls and sometimes has a cushioned floor as well.

  5. Straitjacket - Wikipedia

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    The effect of a straitjacket as a restraint makes it of special interest in escapology. The straitjacket is also a staple prop in stage magic. The straitjacket comes from the Georgian era of medicine. Physical restraint was used both as treatment for mental illness and to pacify patients in understaffed asylums.

  6. Physical restraint - Wikipedia

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    Modern prison restraints including steel handcuffs and belly chains A full Medical Restraint System. Physical restraints are used: primarily by police and prison authorities to obstruct delinquents and prisoners from escaping or resisting [1] British Police officers are authorised to use leg and arm restraints, if they have been instructed in their use.

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  8. Detroit police precincts using lasso-like restraints: What to ...

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    The Detroit City Council in February approved a $32,000, one-year contract for 22 BolaWrap devices amid a continued rise in mental health-related emergency calls. Supporters say the tool is a non ...

  9. Posey vest - Wikipedia

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    A Posey vest is a type of medical restraint used to restrain a patient to a bed or chair. [1] Its name comes from the J.T. Posey Company, its inventor, though the term "Posey" is used generically to describe all such devices. [2]