Adaptations
Today my topic is adaptations. We use adaptations for several purposes. Just think your right hand got fratured and you can move it at the foream. You are and adult and you can not depend on anyone for a long time. Anyhow you need to feed by yourself. At that point adaptations come in to your help. Let's see some adaptaions we use when we lose our independecy in activities of daily living.
Universal Cuff
This is specially made for people who has problmes with supination their forearm. With this you can feed by yourself without supination your forearm. Not only for feeding,but also for wrting, combing, brushing and etc.
Adaptations with larger grips
These are mostly use for people who has impairnemnt in their grip. When they have a poor grip they can not hold the things which have a smaller grip. Then what can we do? We can made their diameter larger. This can be used for anything like toothbrush, spoon, combs, and even for pencils and pens. people with arthritis, spinal cord injuries, parkinsons disease and many more take the adavantage of this.
Wash Mitt
This is used for the patients who can not hold the soap by their own. In here there is a small pocket to keep the soap and this is put on to their hands to apply and remove soap when they are bathing.
When we talk about adaptaions it's going through a vast area. Anything helps to make you independ and decreasing the effets of your disability is an adaptations. Cases like strokes, burns, spinal cord injuries, GBS and parkinsons patients need adaptations to gain a maximum indepency in their daily activities. Everyone likes to be independent and do not like to depend on anyone else. That's why adaptations gives them a better life always!
These adaptors very helpful for the one who are differently able.