For caregivers and care recipients, bed mobility is a very important concept to understand. It basically means the ability to move from one bed position to another. Movements such as rolling and scooting while in the supine (lying on your back) position, reaching from side to side, bridging (lifting your hips off the bed), as […]
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Assistive devices generally fall into the category of medical equipment called “durable medical equipment” or DME. This equipment is designed to help or assist a person perform a particular activity which improves their independence. Many elderly folks, and people with disabilities depend on assistive devices to carry out daily activities and participate actively and productively
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You may hear a clinician or therapist use the term ambulation. Stated plainly, ambulation is walking. More specifically and with regard to aging or injury, its the ability to walk from point A to point B independently, whether using an assistive device or not. Maintaining the ability to walk is one of the most important
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The term/phrase Adaptive Equipment (AE) can refer to any tool or device that is used to help make activities of daily living easier. It could be a grab bar at the toilet, a long handled shoe horn, or even a piece of durable medical equipment (DME) such as a shower chair. The objective of adaptive
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Adduction (or A-D-duction) is the bringing of bodily parts toward the midline of the body. When the arms are at your side and/or your legs together, they are said to be adducted. While at university and studying anatomy, I used to think of A-D-duction as adding my limbs to my body as they were brought
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In the “anatomical sense” abduction (or you may hear it described as A-B-duction) is when a body part, most commonly an arm or leg, is moved away from the midline of the body. Familiar motions like raising your arms and legs apart and away from your body when doing jumping jacks is considered abduction of
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