How to make a lift for a disabled person with your own hands. Lifts for the disabled – expand the boundaries for your loved ones! There are three main types of hangers

People who have taken on the responsibility of caring for bedridden patients are forced to do hard and responsible work. They rely on the comfort, safety and speedy recovery of a person weakened by illness. Daily medical and hygienic procedures require significant physical effort, which negatively affects overall well-being and mood. Medical products on the market are designed to alleviate the situation of the patient and their assistants. One of these technical rehabilitation devices is lifts.

Types of lifts

All lifts perform the function of moving immobilized patients with varying degrees of disease severity and limited movement. The device can be used in medical institutions, at home and outdoors. Depending on where and how lifts are used, the following categories are distinguished:

• mobile with hydraulic or electric drive;
• stationary;
• ladders (tracked, wheeled);
• static vertical (the patient can take a passive vertical position);
• universal;
• for the bathroom (chair lift).

Each model allows you to avoid the burden of lifting, moving, repositioning (shifting) the patient from one place to another, which simplifies care and increases the patient’s mobility.

Lifting devices with a hydraulic drive are driven by a jack, similar to a regular office chair, so their operation requires the application of muscular force.

Electric lifts are equipped with a battery with a light signal and a cable remote control, are easy to operate and provide the possibility of emergency manual lowering.

Features and Benefits

Lifting functional devices for moving patients with pathologies of the musculoskeletal system, the disabled, and the elderly have a simple design, each detail of which is adapted to the needs of the patient. The main characteristic of products is load capacity. Arnold lifts from the German company Rebotek, whose products are also designed for people weighing up to 125 and 150 kg, can withstand a load of up to 250 kg.

In hospitals and at home, electric lifts from this manufacturer have proven themselves to be reliable assistants for service personnel thanks to such components as:

• durable steel frame coated with impact-resistant enamel;
• traverse brackets that rotate freely around their axis;
• automatic direction adjustment handles for accompanying persons;
• self-steering wheels with individual brakes on the two rear ones;
• low support feet with pedals for adjusting the spread width;
• Emergency stop button in case of overload.

Each of the elements helps to cope with the solution of difficulties that arise during attempts to move the patient from a bed to a wheelchair, to the bathroom, to a car, or to lift from the floor. The strong metal frame can support large patients, the sliding lower base ensures the stability of the entire structure, allows you to drive close to any furniture and lift the patient even from the floor, the emergency button eliminates the risk of a sudden fall.

Important! In case of a malfunction of the wired remote control, the manufacturers took care of duplicating the “lowering” button on the control unit mounted on the frame.

Main parameters of Arnold lifts

Suspension

A mandatory component of the lift is a suspension attached to the brackets, in which the patient is placed and secured. Depending on the pathology and degree of immobility of the bedridden patient, the following types of fastenings are used:

• standard belt;
• hygienic suspension made of water-repellent fabric with an opening in the hips and genitals;
• reinforced belt with metal inserts for large patients;
• belt for use in the bathroom (the fabric repels water and dries quickly);
• high-comfort suspensions with a backrest and footrest made of soft, dense fabric, as well as the possibility of attaching a headrest.

Suspensions vary in shape, size, method of fixation on the body, and the number of loops on the straps for adjusting the length of the slings attached to the hooks of the crossbar.

Attention. The level of comfort and safety during movement and performing sanitary and hygienic procedures depends on the correct choice and reliable fixation of the patient in the suspension.

Sequence of actions when using the lift

Before you start using the device, it is important to ensure that it is in working order and is assembled correctly. It is impossible to ignore the condition of the suspension, check its integrity, absence of defects, compatibility with the parameters and diagnosis of the patient. The moving procedure is carried out in the following order:

1. bring the lift to the patient’s location, secure the rear wheels with brakes;
2. position the patient on the suspension and secure the straps to the body, and then to the crossbar;
3. lift the patient slightly and check the security of the belts;
4. lift to the required height strictly vertically - lifting at an angle can cause the lift to fall;
5. transport to the required distance;
6. lower and remove the fasteners.

The lifts are easy to assemble and dismantle; their compact dimensions make them easy to transport and store even in small spaces.

The disadvantages of the product include high cost and slow up-and-down speed. The last point is relevant for relatively mobile patients recovering from injury or surgery. Weakened, incapacitated patients and their caregivers take this feature of lifting devices as an additional advantage, which provides peace of mind and guarantees safety.

A lift, as a mobile means of technical rehabilitation for bedridden patients, can rarely be found in everyday home conditions. This situation contributes to the fact that potential buyers have many questions regarding the capabilities of the device. In addition to questions about payment, delivery, warranty conditions, technical parameters, consultants of the Med-Tema store in Moscow are ready to provide comprehensive information on the following points:

• what load capacity of the device will be optimal for the patient;
• how best to decide on the choice of suspension;
• what are the dimensions of the finished and assembled product;
• are there any additional functions;
• What is included in the package (remote control, hanging cradle, charging cord).

The store’s specialists understand concerns about the safety of a loved one, and consider any question important and significant. A properly selected lifting device with the optimal combination of maneuverability, stability and load capacity will alleviate the difficulties of transporting and caring for a bedridden patient.

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So, I'm a collar worker. About 3-4 years ago I encountered a problem getting out of bed. I couldn’t do it myself, no matter how hard I tried (weak hands). There was simply no money to buy a mobile lift (RUR 300,000). After talking with a furniture maker I knew, I explained my problem to him, and he promised to help.
To my joy, he came up with a great way out of the situation. Make a stationary lift above the bed.

What does the lift kit include:

Two strong fastenings, each of which is attached to 8 anchors. An iron beam such as rails is installed on top of the mount; it can be a T-beam, an I-beam or two channels, as in our case. A mobile mechanism with an electric drive controlled by a remote control is suspended on the beam. A lifting device is attached to this running trolley; here you can use an electric winch or hoist, or even better, which comes complete with the trolley and is controlled by one remote control. Our design uses two motor control panels.

You can see how it all looks in the photographs provided in this article.

After installing the lift, a small problem arose: how to secure a disabled person (me) without pain and injury for lifting and moving into a wheelchair. The developer himself recommended a climbing harness, but using it took a lot of effort and time. Then a year later, an acquaintance told me that he had seen a mobile lift for the disabled on the Internet. After some digging on the Internet, I found a site selling these lifts, and there I saw an excellent lifting device.

This device consisted of a special mount in the form of a rocker and a fabric seat with fastenings, which worked perfectly for me and minimized the time and nerves involved in lifting. After repositioning, the seat is pulled out from under the disabled person with almost no effort. I will describe a more detailed description of the lifting seat later with photos and dimensions.

We can offer a unique service! Our grandmother is disabled. And we know firsthand how difficult it is to lift a sick person. Therefore, my husband figured out how to make a suspended lifting device for disabled people with his own hands. And his factory where he works helped him a lot with this. We can make a suspended one for you too system for a reasonable fee (no more than 5,000 rubles). You will have to buy the winch itself (which is also a lift) and the sling for lifting a disabled person yourself (we’ll tell you where) - this is about 7,000 rubles. And for 12,000 rubles you will have a lift for the patient relative. On the Internet, such devices cost from 100,000 rubles. You can make the device in the bathroom so that you can effortlessly lift it, put it in the bathtub, and back into the stroller.

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Disability.. our attitude...)) | Topic author: Viktor

Approximately every tenth person in the world is disabled. Including in Russia and all its cities.

Any person without a disability can face this problem at any time in his life, and even if he is “lucky”, physical limitations will simply come with old age.

Only the systematic exclusion of disabled people from society has led to the fact that disability is perceived as something unusual, anomalous, something that is not clear how to relate to.

In our culture, “independence” is a very valuable concept, and it is one of the reasons for the panic fear of disability - people immediately imagine that they will “become a burden” to others.

In fact, “independence” is just a myth.

To understand this, you can do one mental exercise: remember what your morning arrival at work depends on, for example.

From an alarm clock? Coffee makers? Metro? Own car?

After that, you need to think about exactly how many people are involved in the production of alarm clocks, coffee makers and cars.

Most people don't think about how dependent they are on the water supply, street cleaners, road construction, and other benefits, many of which they do not pay for directly.

All people, without exception, depend on each other.

The only question is which dependencies are ignored and which are considered a natural necessity.

No one says that he is “chained” to his car, and the existence of traversable roads is considered unequivocally important.

However, these same people say the phrase “wheelchair bound” and consider ramps and lifts for wheelchair users to be “overkill,” a “charity,” and a “burden on society.”

In the late twentieth century, ethnographers accidentally discovered that a remote Mexican village had a disproportionately large population of deaf people, even though the majority were hearing.

As it turned out, all the villagers, without exception, knew sign language from childhood, learning it simply through communication.

In this village, lack of hearing was not a disability because it did not impose any restrictions - many people could not even always remember which of their neighbors could hear and which could not.

This is the essence of a cultural approach to disability.

Differences in physical or intellectual abilities become “disabilities” only if they are made so by cultural conditions.

Therefore, the only opportunity to change the situation of people with disabilities is fundamental changes in society.

And for this, the movement for the rights of people with disabilities proposed a new look at a very important concept for modern people - independent life.

Most people experience awkwardness, if not slight panic, if for the first time in their life they communicate with a person in a wheelchair or with a blind person, they do not know how to react if it turns out that the person has a mental illness.

Due to ignorance and prejudice, many begin to behave inappropriately and even rudely: they turn to a sign language interpreter instead of a deaf person, try to push a stroller without permission, or simply act a little patronizingly.

Others simply make their personal, feasible contribution to discrimination against people with disabilities, for example, joking that in the “politically correct West” even people with disabilities are hired, or simply thoughtlessly using words like “down” as insults.

The reason is that all these people have been taught since childhood to perceive disabled people as radically “different.”

There are many ways to make a person “different” from yourself.

When it comes to disability, the easiest way is to see people as “victims.”

From a psychological point of view, this is a defense mechanism.

Pity allows you to distance yourself from the situation of other people and put yourself “above” them.

As a result, these people appear helpless, infantile, and need someone else (for example, a “specialist”) to explain to them or their loved ones what they need.

Viktor (Walerian)  Another way journalists often “sin” is by presenting disabled people as “heroes.”

At the same time, everything turns out to be heroic: getting an education, participating in sports competitions, career, family life and other things that are considered normal for “ordinary” people.

In fact, there is nothing heroic in the fact that a person makes great efforts to live as fully as possible - all people strive for this. Behind the myth of the “hero” is the idea that disability “must” be a tragedy.

And if disabled people dare to live a normal life, then this is probably just an exception, a consequence of incredible “heroism.”

In recent years, the situation in Russia has begun to change, although very slowly.