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Pressure injury

Skin or tissue damage caused by pressure, friction, or prolonged contact, especially under braces, seams, or seating supports.

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Positions that reduce pressure and fatigue

Positions that reduce pressure and fatigue

Why pressure builds during labor and recovery Pressure is the force created when body weight rests on a surface for a sustained period. During labor and early postpartum recovery, this often concentrates over bony prominences such as the sacrum, coccyx, greater trochanters at the hips, heels, elbows, and shoulder blades. The perineum and vulvar tissues […]

Adaptive clothing for children with mobility or dressing challenges

Adaptive clothing for children with mobility or dressing challenges

What adaptive clothing means for children Adaptive clothing refers to garments designed or modified to make dressing, undressing, toileting, hygiene, and medical access easier. For children, this may include clothing for children who use wheelchairs, walkers, standers, ankle-foot orthoses, spinal braces, prostheses, casts, gastrostomy tubes, insulin pumps, ostomies, central lines, continence products, or ventilatory support. […]