We urgently need a transport system to help lift and move the disabled person from a wheelchair to a bed or exercise couch to prevent health complications (especially pressure ulcers) of paralyzed adults and children within the Healthy Sitting Laboratory project. We will use the transport system to measure the pressure map, which determines the degree of load on the seating areas. The client needs to be lifted from the wheelchair and moved to the sensor pad. Manual transfer is less gentle and not feasible in the long run.
The Ceiling System to Help Prevent Pressure Sores
Charity Project - Pressure sores, sores and open wounds resulting from poor wheelchair seating are a serious health problem that can disable wheelchair users, prevent them from having an active life and may even endanger their lives. This transport system helps to lift and move the handicapped from the wheelchair to the bed or exercise chair and is necessary to prevent the health complications suffered by paralyzed adults and children. This is a project for 200 000 CZK.
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NEZ00017
The Ceiling System to Help Prevent Pressure Sores
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The Ceiling System to Help Prevent Pressure Sores
The ceiling system will help fight pressure ulcers
The problem of pressure ulcers in paralyzed people
Pressure ulcers are a serious health complication that can occur throughout life. Wheelchair users endanger their lives and exclude them from active life for a long time. Wheelchair users are mainly sores, ie open wounds caused by poor seating in a wheelchair or the use of an unsuitable seat.
Healthy sitting laboratory
It is a project of the Czech Association of Paraplegics - CZEPA, which is sponsored by Zdeňka Faltýnková, a long-term physiotherapist and occupational therapist. For more than fifteen years, we have been helping clients sit properly, choose the right wheelchair and seat, and thus prevent pressure ulcers and other health complications caused by life in a wheelchair. The main tool is a sensor device that measures the pressure distribution under the seating areas.
They said about the project
“A properly chosen wheelchair together with an anti - decubitus seat is a crucial moment in the life of every new wheelchair user. The professional advice of the CZEPA Healthy Sitting Laboratory is used by many clients, especially in the matter of correcting the patient' s seat and evaluating the anti-decubitus effects of the selected seat by means of an instrument pressure map. Some patients are after pressure ulcer plastic surgery and their movements must be very gentle. For this, the ceiling system is a necessary technical aid. "
Zdeňka Faltýnková, a long-term specialist in spinal problems with more than 40 years of experience.
About the Czech Association of Paraplegics - CZEPA
We are a non-profit organization helping people who are left with a wheelchair after spinal cord injury to integrate into everyday life as soon as possible. We offer wheelchair users a wide range of services.
Expert guarantor - doc. MUDr. Jiří Kříž, Ph. D. D.
Head of the Spinal Unit at the Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine of the 2nd Medical Faculty and University Hospital in Motol and a long-term expert on spinal cord lesions.
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