It was important for us as therapists to be able to identify the common areas of skin breakdown due to prolonged pressure from last week’s blog on "What...
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October 2, 2015
A pressure map is a tool often used in seating evaluations and/or fittings to assess the downward pressures of a seated surface. It is simply a pad with...
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September 22, 2015
As a therapist I am used to having tools to measure or evaluate my patients’ physical status and environmental conditions. These tools give me a baseline...
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August 27, 2015
We have a problem. There are 2.5 million pressure ulcers each year in the US (Reddy et al 2006). Fifty percent of all admissions and eight percent of all...
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