Tag: Standing Aids & Supports

Drop Support harness is a unique, upper body harness that wraps around the user’s waist, shoulders, chest, and torso, with an attached central handle running the length of the torso. The support handle is a point of contact between the user of the harness and the person assisting the user (“assistant”).

This is what makes Drop Support unique. The support handle, located on the back, sits vertical, and not horizontal, like a standard gait belt. The vertical handle provides the assistant with a better means of controlling and managing the user directional motion.

The vertical Support Handle isn’t the only thing unique about Drop Support. The added support straps over the shoulder’s and chest area help the assistant in better managing and stopping forward falls.

A gait belt falls short in this area.

Center of Gravity & Balance:

Use of the support handle, an assistant can aid the user in regaining their balance by helping them find their center of gravity and base of support. If the user begins to fall forward, backwards, or side-to-side, the assistant utilizes the support handle to change the direction of the fall to re-establish the user’s center of gravity and allowing the user to find their base of support, which the user will then be stable and balanced.

Momentum:

When the Drop Support harness is properly fitted and snugly secured, the assistant has a better chance of slowing the user’s forward/downward momentum before it has a chance of gaining acceleration. By limiting or reducing the user’s momentum, the assistant is more likely to be able to manage the users decent, which is both safer for the user and the assistant.

By adding a waist belt, shoulder and chest straps, and tying it all into the vertical Support Handle, provides a better fall support system in reducing fall related injuries.

✅ Maintain Your Independence with the Pivit Stand Assist Patient Transport

The Pivit Stand Assist is a transport-assistance unit that only requires that your loved one has the upper body strength to pull themselves up. This fall-prevention device was designed for not just the elderly, but caregivers as well. Restores activity that was once gated no need for draw sheets, gait belts, bed rails or plastic or wooden transfer boards with optional support slings that reduce fall risks.

• Maintain Your Privacy And Independence — Convenient design allows it fit easily over most toilets, which allows the individual to have privacy and independence while using the bathroom facilities.
• High-Quality Product — Heavy-duty steel for maximum strength, plus a base with locking rear casters, black non-slip foot rests and dual grab bars provide the user with additional safety and security.
• Incredible Comfort — Features dual knee pads and a folding, padded split seat which swings out to allow for easy loading and unloading, that swings back to act as a comfortable transport seat.
• Keep Your Loved One Moving — Fits easily through narrow doorways and has transport functions of all kinds that’re quick, convenient and require minimal caregiver assistance to easily get your loved one moving and walking again get to the bath, walker, cane, bath benches or shower chairs.
• Cost Effective — An affordable alternative to expensive electric sit-to-stand lifts and is quickly becoming the most popular medical lifting aid solution for at-home care with little training needed.

What’s in the Box

• One Stand Assist Patient Transport
• Three-Year limited Warranty