Bariatrics

Dynarex also seeks to facilitate quicker provision of heavy-duty equipment.

Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) success often depends on a product’s ability to accommodate the needs of a particular client. Mobile shower commode chairs aren’t always a highly customizable category of CRT, and in the bariatric space, even fewer choices have been available. But Raz Design’s new bariatric line could have you rethinking what to expect…

Bariatric clients often have had limited custom seating options to choose from.

Bariatric clients need seating & wheeled mobility options with higher weight capacities — but those clients also present a range of unique clinical needs and challenges that impact equipment choices.

The category names themselves might sound fairly generic, but the HCPCS list of codes is actually very precise in defining standard mobility products and those designed and built for higher weight capacities: Standard: Weight capacity up to and including 300 lbs. Heavy Duty: From 301 through 450 lbs. Very Heavy Duty: From 451 through 600…

Serving bariatric seating & mobility clients requires a keen understanding of the various clinical and environmental challenges they face…as well as knowledge of the assistive technology that can make all the diff erence in their independence.

While Medicare funding rates in general aren’t where complex rehab providers would like them to be, the niche of bariatric seating & mobility contains a diff erent sort of kink. Jay Brislin, MSPT, VP of Quantum Rehab, points out that current Medicare policy does separate bariatric power mobility bases — known as “heavy-duty” and “very…

Beneficiaries will be able to access education and counsel from primary care providers.

While seating & mobility providers and clinicians are generally happy with the range of technology choices currently available, they would love more choices for clients weighing 350 lbs. or more. That’s what respondents to Mobility Management’s recent readership survey said when asked their opinions about today’s seating & mobility products. We sent survey invitations to…

When creating bariatric seating & mobility systems, it’s not just a case of bigger being better…or clinically appropriate. Here’s why this patient population can benefit from customized solutions.