Being a health-care worker in a hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center is filled with many ways to hurt one's back.  Some backaches or injuries can result from repeated bending over for months and years, like bending over beds or chairs to take blood pressure readings.  Another way to incur a back injury is the painfully acute way when transferring a patient, usually without a patient lift, out of a bed or wheelchair, or onto a toilet or wet-floored shower bench.  More often a hurt back will happen from a combination of both, from bending over a bed, or lifting a patient from a wheelchair onto a high bed.

Many times it seems that once a caregiver's back is injured, their productivity and patient care will decrease.  Not due to lack of compassion or care but to the fear of further damaging their body and possibly causing prolonged pain and even job loss.

One medical tool in use to decrease the chance of a medical worker back injury is a patient lift, yet sometimes patient lifts are too bulky for the environment, or the lift may be occupied by other patients.  Another good medical tool to help save the caregiver's back, and the possibility of limiting patient falls, while also decreasing the facilities' cost of worker compensation and hours lost is a Hi-Riser Changing table.

The Smirthwaite Hi-Riser Changing Bench, or treatment table, lets the wall and floor absorb the weight of the patient, taking the load of lifting the patient from the back and shoulder muscles of the nurse or medical assistant.  Doing the grunt work in medical facilities doesn't have to produce grunts and yelps of pain from the workers when simple technology can do the work for them.

   

This robust changing table offers a slim-line design which can fold up against the wall to offer more room space when not in use, and due to its moisture-resistant vinyl upholstery and stainless-steel frame, is ideal for shower and pool changing areas.  With its unique stowaway side rail, the Hi-Riser Changing Table is patient-friendly and caregiver-helpful with its easy to clean padded surface.

This durable medical device is a cost-saving tool for the medical facility because it can reduce missed sick days for the caregiver and help with decreasing patient falls and the possible ensuing legal actions.  Also, medical workers will love the ease it creates to their busy day of patient care while also giving the patient the added security and comfort of not being rolled back and forth on their bed while being changed, or having them weakly holding onto something while shakily standing in a bathroom or shower when being attended to by a caregiver.  With a Hi-Riser Changing Table, being safe is never having to say you're sorry...or in pain.