✓ Early Mobilization
(Neuro Vascular Unit, ICU ...)
✓ Patients in Medicine Unit
✓ Elderly persons in Geriatrics Unit
✓ Non-walking patients (Vegetative state, poly-handicap)
Early-stage rehabilitation:
➢ Neurology:
(Stroke, Head Trauma, Guillain Barre Syndrome)
• Prevents the complications of prolonged bed rest
• Increases the chances of recovering the functional capacities
• Improves quality of life
➢ Orthopaedic:
(Polytrauma, Amputee (Lower limbs))
• Initiates the gait cycle and accelerates traditional rehabilitation
• Increases the chances of recovering the functional capacities
• Improves quality of life
✓ Patients difficult to mobilized
(Spinal cord injury, poly-handicap, obesity)
Consider the care setting, patient transfers, space around the installation and the staff involved. Ask to examine positioning, controls, cleaning and the instructions for the proposed configuration. Practical implementation and the clinical decision to mobilise a patient are separate questions that should both be addressed.
These settings can involve different installation and access constraints. The configuration and instructions must be checked for the intended location rather than inferred from a photograph or a demonstration elsewhere. The clinical team determines the activities and timing appropriate to the care pathway.
A device presentation does not establish when or how an individual patient should be mobilised. The team must assess the clinical situation, precautions and objectives, using the applicable instructions. A research summary or another facility’s experience should not be treated as a universal inpatient protocol.
Maintaining mobility when patients are bedridden is a major issue in rehabilitation. The goal is to limit the deleterious effects of immobilization and continue to stimulate the patient’s joint and muscle abilities. Physiotherapy offers wide possibilities and allows all members to work independently.
Based on these techniques, the DPA Med mobile was developed to mobilize simultaneously the two lower limbs, the pelvis and the spine in the patient’s bed. This global approach makes it possible to work the segmental chains necessary for walking to facilitate rehabilitation and autonomy.
