TRANSFER AND AMBULATION
TRANSFER AND
AMBULATION
Alignment
- Body alignment typically refers to a practice in chiropractics — a field within health care that focuses on the
- The practice utilizes a practitioner who stretches, pulls, massages, and applies pressure to the patient's body to improve skeletal alignment.
- Chiropractors argue that body alignment improves the functioning of the nervous system which in turn improves physical and mental health.
Ambulation
- The ability to walk from place to place independently with or without assistive device.
Ambulatory
- Promotion and assistance with walking to maintain or restore autonomic and voluntary body functions during treatment and recovery from illness or injury
Braces
- An orthopedic appliance used to support, align, or hold a bodily part in the correct position.
Canes - Canes or walking canes are just one of several devices available to assist in ambulation, or walking. Using a walking cane improves balance by increasing a person’s base of support.
When used correctly, canes unload the leg opposite to the cane is in by up to twenty five percent.
Carry
- To hold or support while walking.
Crutches
- Is a wooden or metal staff used to aid a patient’s mobility impairment or an injury that limits walking ability.
Gait - The manner or style of walking. Depends on the person’s ability to support their weight and balance.
Hydraulic Lif - It can help transfer an immobile or obese patient safely from the bed to a chair.
Lif Sheet - Is a sheet used in the medical industry to lift immobile patients from their bed. It can be made of plastic, rubber, or cotton, and is about half the size of a regular sheet. It supports the body from the upper back to mid thigh during lifting.
Mobility- the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. Movement- the act or process of moving people or things from one place or position to another; the act of moving from one place or position to another.
Non-ambulatory- not able to walk about.
AMBULATION
Alignment
- Body alignment typically refers to a practice in chiropractics — a field within health care that focuses on the
- The practice utilizes a practitioner who stretches, pulls, massages, and applies pressure to the patient's body to improve skeletal alignment.
- Chiropractors argue that body alignment improves the functioning of the nervous system which in turn improves physical and mental health.
Ambulation
- The ability to walk from place to place independently with or without assistive device.
Ambulatory
- Promotion and assistance with walking to maintain or restore autonomic and voluntary body functions during treatment and recovery from illness or injury
Braces
- An orthopedic appliance used to support, align, or hold a bodily part in the correct position.
Canes - Canes or walking canes are just one of several devices available to assist in ambulation, or walking. Using a walking cane improves balance by increasing a person’s base of support.
When used correctly, canes unload the leg opposite to the cane is in by up to twenty five percent.
Carry
- To hold or support while walking.
Crutches
- Is a wooden or metal staff used to aid a patient’s mobility impairment or an injury that limits walking ability.
Gait - The manner or style of walking. Depends on the person’s ability to support their weight and balance.
Hydraulic Lif - It can help transfer an immobile or obese patient safely from the bed to a chair.
Lif Sheet - Is a sheet used in the medical industry to lift immobile patients from their bed. It can be made of plastic, rubber, or cotton, and is about half the size of a regular sheet. It supports the body from the upper back to mid thigh during lifting.
Mobility- the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. Movement- the act or process of moving people or things from one place or position to another; the act of moving from one place or position to another.
Non-ambulatory- not able to walk about.