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Make your day-to-day life easier with our range of dressing aids. Put your weaker leg in first.
Socks shoes and pants.
Lower body dressing equipment. Use the dressing stick to help push your shoes off of your feet. The dressing stick has two hooks on one end. Use the hook pointing down slip it in the heel of your shoe and push.
Off goes your shoe. Dressing stick You can use a dressing stick to dress the lower part of your body. Hook the dressing stick through the belt loop at the front of your pants.
Or place the hook inside the front of the waistband for pants skirt or underwear. Lower the clothing to the floor. Gather all necessary articles of clothing and equipment and place next to where you will be dressing.
Sit on the edge of the bed or in a chair. Start by dressing your legs using a sock aide for socks or anti-embolism stockings if prescribed by your doctor. Use a long reacher or dressing stick to put on pants and undergarments.
Dress the surgical leg first. Use a long reacher or dressing stick to hold garments down by your feet. Pull the clothes up with the stick until you can reach the waistband with your hand.
Do not lean forward if you have hip precautions. Dress the other leg using the same technique. Using a reacher or clothing hook can help you dress your lower body.
For some occasions consider wearing tear-away pants as they are easy to put on. Skirts can also be easier to put on than pants. Try wearing looser clothing on your upper body.
Avoid shirts with tight necks since they are more difficult to pull on. Individuals with limited mobility or balance problems after stroke injury or surgery benefit from adaptive devices for independent and safe dressing. The following are guidelines for lower body dressing.
Socks shoes and pants. Dressing garments overhead This method can be used for jerseys shirts vests and nightgowns Step 1. Place your weak hand into the sleeve and pull sleeve over your shoulder.
Pull the neck opening over your head. Place your unaffected arm into the sleeve. Steps 2 and 3 may be reversed.
Pants and Lower Body Clothing. Separate handouts for left side affected and right side affected as needed Heres a sample of one of the Patient and Caregiver Educational Handouts included in the Occupational Therapy Toolkit. Putting on Pullover Garment.
Using One-Handed Method Left Side Affected. Put On and Take Off a T-shirt Using a Dressing Stick Put On and Take Off an Ankle-Foot Brace - Method 1 - Left Leg Put On and Take Off an Ankle-Foot Brace - Method 1 - Right Leg. Lower body dressing can be challenging for individuals with weakness decreased coordination or limited reach.
Several pieces of adaptive equipment may provide assistance. View the video for a demonstration of a sock aid shoe horn reacher long shoe horn and elastic shoelaces. Be aware of where the body parts are in space ie body awareness motor plan multiple steps.
Coordinate both sides of the body and the eyeshands to work together. DEFICITS IN GROSS MOTOR SKILLS AND THE EFFECTS ON DRESSING SKILLS. If a child has deficits in range of motion it will greatly affect the childs abilities to dress independently.
Use the reacher to lower the clothing item to the floor. Put your weaker leg in first. Then put your stronger leg in.
Use the reacher to pull your clothes up over your knees. Use your walker or walking device to help you stand up. Grab the waist of your clothes with 1 hand.
Grooming and dressing aids provide assistance with personal care tasks such as buttoning or zippering clothes putting on shoes and socks and washing hair. They allow people with arthritis mobility issues and special needs to maintain independence by addressing their own grooming and dressing needs. Assists in pulling on tights.
Make your day-to-day life easier with our range of dressing aids. Dressing The following devices are products developed for individuals who can not or should not bend over to dress the lower portion of their body. This would include individuals with significantly compromised sitting balance some of those with back pain or any other condition in which excessive bending is unsafe or aggravates pain.
About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Lower body dressing Sitting Standing Bed transfers Bedside commode transfers Tub benchshower transfers Equipment that may be recommended for home. Walker Bedside commode Tub benchshower chair Leg lifter Adaptive equipment for lower body dressing Important information to remember.
Always dress the surgical side first when putting on pants 2. Choose garments that are easy to put on and remove such as. Pants loose fitting tops pullover tops suspenders instead of a belt Velcro.
Or slip on shoes front hook bra sports bra camisole. Train in safe and efficient functional mobility transfer techniques and bed mobility. Lower body bathing and dressing.
There are tools that you can use to enable you to be independent with managing these tasks. Your occupational therapist will educate you on how to use these tools if indicated and will also order this equipment for you during your hospital stay. To put on underwear and pants.
Sit on a supportive surface. Dressing aids are important pieces of everyday equipment for people with mobility issues. A dressing aid is a device which assists in the process of putting on an item of clothing.
Dressing sticks for example comprise a wooden rod with a cleverly designed hook at one end which helps lift shirts over your shoulder or which hooks on to trousers. Dressing the lower body Your child can either. Lift their right leg slightly off the floor.
Lean forwards and using their left hand place the garment over their right foot. Continuing to use their left hand encourage them to work as much of the garment as possible over their right foot. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.