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Creating a Stable Surface for Assessment and Treatment

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If you're in the clinic or maybe you're in the home setting and the patient's—you need to get to the back of the leg or you need the patient's foot to be very stable on the bed or maybe even on the ground, they have a slippery rug or floor, what you can do is get Dycem. 

So this is actually a non-slip material that you can get in, you know, any hardware store comes in a roll. Physical therapists have Dycem. And so you just put it down on the floor wherever you want that patient's foot or their arm or something where you don't want them to slip and they stick. And then you don't have any movement at all and then you can have a stable foot or a stable leg or a stable arm and then you can do what you really need to do.

And the nice thing about this is that if you cut the piece off the roll and you can clean it off and if you want to keep it single patient use, take a plastic bag, lay them with the patient's name. And we have Mr. Smith here. And then you can keep it with all the other supplies for Mr. Smith.