Chapters 13 and 10: Positioning and Ambulation Flashcards
Devices that attach to your bed to keep sheets and blankets from touching and rubbing your legs and feet.
Bed Cradle
Areas of bone that are close to the skin’s surface.
Bony Prominences
A fixed tightening of muscle, tendons, ligaments, or skin.
Contracture
Damage to an area of the skin caused by constant pressure on the area for a long time.
Decubitus
When you have difficulty lifting the front part of your foot.
Foot Drop
Devices worn to relieve pain associated with foot and ankle conditions.
Orthotic Device
Damage to an area of the skin caused by constant pressure on the area for a long time.
Pressure Sore /Injury/Ulcer
Part of the body where injury or illness occurs.
Affected
How the head, shoulders, spine, hips, knees and ankles line up with each other.
Alignment
To walk.
Ambulate/Ambulation
Assistive device used to provide support during ambulation for individuals with weakness, instability, pain, or balance loss.
Cane
Medical device designed to aid in ambulation, by transferring body weight from the legs to the torso and arms.
Crutches
Being positioned with legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
Dangle
Sitting up 90 degrees.
High Fowler’s
The pattern that you walk.
Gait
Device put on a patient who has mobility issues, by a caregiver prior to moving the patient.
Gait/Transfer Belt
Patient sitting up at a 45 degree angle.
Semi-Fowler’s
To the side.
Lateral
A technique used to move a patient while maintaining spinal alignment.
Logrolling
Device used to assist with transfers of individuals who require support for mobility beyond what the care giver can do alone.
Mechanical Lift
Foot covering with slip - resistant bottoms.
Non-Skid Soles
To turn or rotate.
Pivot
The arrangement or posture of a patient’s body,
Positioning
Lying face down.
Prone
When forces moving in opposite directions are applied to body tissues.
Shearing
Semi-prone position where the patient lies on their left side with the right knee and hip flexed.
Sim’s
Laying on your back.
Supine
Tools / equipment designed to help individuals with disabilities or perform daily tasks and activities.
Supportive Devices
Walking aid that provides a wider base of support than a cane.
Walker
Supporting body weight through the bones, muscles, and joints.
Weight Bearing
Chair mounted on wheels, used by individuals with limited or no walking ability.
Wheelchair
A body part that has not been injured.
Unaffected
