Where can I get one of these gait belts?
----- Original Message -----
From: Renee Riffle <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:40
Subject: RE: GAIT BELT
> I am the Coordinator of Clinical Education in a PTA program. Our students
> are required to use gait belts. I believe in the safety/liability aspects
> strongly enough to give a gait belt to each graduate of the program. I
> finally found a brand of easy to use belts whose buckles never slip, so no
> excuses for our students. Renee Riffle, PTA, ACCE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Greene [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:12 PM
> To: physio mailbase; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: GAIT BELT
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Something as simple as a gait/safety belt still stirs controversy. I
> teach in the Andrews U PT program. We still teach our students that
> they should use a gait belt. Yet when they return from clinicals a
> number of them say the clinic they were in does not use gait belts.
>
> I know that a gait belt is not necessarily functional, and some claim
> that to use one increases dependence on the PT, decreases function and
> transfer of task to the home environment. Yet if you get sued because
> you did not have one on and dropped a patient you would be up a creek
> because you did not meet the "standard of practice."
>
> What do you think about gait belts?
>
> Ed Greene, MPH, PT
>
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