Floor Transfer Training

Put your feet on floor unless your therapist tells you not to.

Floor transfer training.

Learn how to transfer from your wheelchair down to the floor and b. Many of your patients will be dealing with severe illness or injuries like multiple fractures an amputation brain injury spinal cord. Why does transfer training matter. Last week angie shared tips on neuromotor training and how it can help older adults stay safe and maintain their functional independence.

Get proper transfer training. To perform this transfer carry out the following steps. Work to get a knee up with the foot flat 8. Raise onto knees by propping hands on chair.

It is also one of the most important aspects. This week she follows up with a key safety consideration. Hold onto the chair at all times. The floor transfer test assesses the functional ability of older adults to sit down on and rise from the floor in order to screen out those at greater risk of falling.

Work with a physical therapist to learn the best transfer technique for you and your body. Whether you work in acute care inpatient rehab subacute rehab or home health transfer training is one of the most physically demanding aspects of occupational therapy. The transfer itself is a simple process of standing the patient up pivoting and sitting the patient down. Supine to sit transfer.

If you teach older adult fitness classes you ll want to check out this week s video. Push up to get both feet on the floor. Scoot to the edge of your chair. Measures the time necessary to sit on the floor from a standing start and then return to standing in any ways the patient prefers.

Teaching floor to standing transfer. Everyone needs individualized transfer training to preserve function and avoid injury. Stand close to the patient to avoid leaning or over reaching and place your foot that is closer to the head of the bed on the floor between the patient s legs. This how to video presents an individual with spinal cord injury sci demonstrating the useful skill to master of being able to transfer from a wheelchair to the floor and back again both with and without assistance.

Safety if two assist is needed one can handle legs the other can handle trunk gather necessary equipment priorto sitting up gait belt non slip socks walker etc lower bed once pt is sitting so that pt s feet contact floor keep 1 hand on the pt once in sitting. Yourself down into sitting. October is national physical therapy month an opportunity for you to help apta raise awareness of the benefits of physical therapy. Floor transfer instructions page 2 7.