Videos on equipment

In placement in my first year of occupational therapy, I was allocated to the city Invercargill in an A, T & R unit. The placement offered rehabilitation and treatment services to those with strokes, hip and knee replacements, fractured neck of femurs, amputees, cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD). Much of our intervention was around educating the patients around energy conservation through the use of adaptive equipment. I am going to provide in this blog post some of the adaptive equipment we applied to a range of conditions in the A, T & R unit. 

Here is a video about a shower chair.

This video covers a lot of aspect around shower chairs, such as what types there are, how to use one, and safety precautions around the use of the chair. Shower chairs were constantly being supplied to our patients as fatigue whilst showering was a major issue for most due to the symptoms of their conditions.

This is a video about raised toilet.

This video shows the use of a plinth in the bathroom that raises the toilet seat height up. This means the individual using it does not have to bend as far as you normally would to use it.

This is a video about how to use a walker

This video discusses the use of a walker in relation to what types there are, the safety precautions around the use and also the correct technique of walking with a walker.

This video is about transfer boards

This video covers transfers from one sitting position to another. In the case of my placement, we would sometimes use bath transfer boards to transfer a patient from a wheelchair to the bath/shower.

This last video is about equipment in the kitchen

This video covers a range of assistive devices and adaptive equipment that focuses on providing safe movement around the kitchen.