A manual recliner chair is intended for use by clients with clinical conditions causing a permanent inability to transfer or sit erect. There should be evidence that physiotherapy treatment cannot improve the client’s dysfunction.
A manual recliner chair cannot be approved:
when the clinical needs can be met by current furniture or by modifying current furniture;
for comfort;
primarily for the management of back or musculoskeletal limb pain;
primarily for use as a bed; or
primarily for management of lower limb oedema*.
*When treating lower limb oedema it is important to be aware of current best practice that informs health providers that elevation of the feet below the level of the heart is ineffective and should be avoided. Best practice includes: calf pumping exercises, regular walks and elevation of lower limbs on a bed.
A manual recliner chair is intended for use by clients with clinical conditions causing a permanent inability to transfer or sit erect. There should be evidence that physiotherapy treatment cannot improve the client’s dysfunction.
A manual recliner chair cannot be approved:
*When treating lower limb oedema it is important to be aware of current best practice that informs health providers that elevation of the feet below the level of the heart is ineffective and should be avoided. Best practice includes: calf pumping exercises, regular walks and elevation of lower limbs on a bed.
Heating/massaging units are not provided.
Order Form – Mobility and Functional Support – D0992