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Slotted Bed and Slotted Rehabilitation Bed

The slotted bed is a bed comprising a transverse slotted mattress and spring mattress which, due to its special ergonomic design..., is irreplaceable in the way in which it conforms to the strictest requirements of the user. These requirements have been closely studied on the basis of the physio-therapeutic and ergonomic criteria which the body needs in order to adapt to the bed on which it rests.

For many years, bed desings have not undergone any significant changes; the place in which we spend one third of our lives, if not more, due to a poor state of health.

The few modifications introduced have been basic ones and exclusively related to the mechanisms which cushions the body on the bed or, in other words, to the deformation which is produced on the mattress due to the weight of the body.

It has not, therefore, been taken into consideration that the human anatomy comprises a series of curves and protuberances of differing sizes and that beds are essentially flat surfaces, which it means that it is practically imposible for one contour to adapt to the oder.

Bearing these difficulties in mind, with this desing, all the necessary steps have been taken to ensure that the union between the body and the mattress is as perfect as possible, in order for greater comfort in the body´s daily rest and a more complete nervous and muscular relaxation and this has been achieved, primarily, by means of the new positions which can be adopted on this bed.

Recent statistical surveys have shown that the large majority of people adopt only two basic postures during sleep: either on the left or right side. These two ways of resting are clearly not sufficient to prvide long-lasting comfort, where the individual is prevented for constantly changing position since, if the body lies on one side, all its weight is supported by a small surface area of the body, which mainly falls on the shoulders and the arms. This factor, conmbined with the fact that the mattresses tend to be increasingly hard, leads to discomfort in the support of these parts of the body and to problems of lack of circulation in the arms and hands. Furthermore, if we add the fact that the resting position of the head on the pillow is not as perfect as we could wish, due to the insuitable height of the latter, we are faced with the classic problems of torsion, dislocations, etc. in the cervical-dorsal and clavicular regions.

If we remove the pillow and the support on the shoulder, we will suceed in solving the large majority of the complaints from which we suffer and, if we succed in allowing the body to rest across its 360º turning span, this will produce the same effect.

This is the logic behind the design of the transverse slotted bed which, due to its special characteristics, allows the body to assume postures in lateral, prone and supine decubitus and all their possible variations, and results in a broad range of possibilities in the terms of rest which are not offered by a conventionally designed bed.

Its component elements include the following:

• Transverse slotted spring mattress.
• Transverse slotted mattress, superimposed upon the slotted spring mattress.
• Anatomical pillow (opcional), incorporated into the slot of the mattress.
• Fitted sheet beneath the rim of the spring mattress which serves as arm suport, with adjustable length.

Due to these different design elements, there are several possible combinations of use:

• With or without pillow.
• With or without anatomical incorporated pillow.
• A combination of both.

ANATOMICAL PILLOW (picture)

This is round in shape, with a cocave hollow in the central area which can be ajusted to the required position, by giving a 1/4 turn in its setting. This serves either to support the head or as a base upon which to the rest the shoulder.

POSITIONED WITH THE CONCAVE FACING UPWARDS

For prone decubitus without twisting of the neck or turning of the head at a 45º angle in respect of the trunk. When one or both arms lie in the slot, the posture is completed. The mouth and nose, located between the incorporated pillow and the mattress, allowing freedom of respiration.

POSITIONED WITH THE CONCAVE FACING INWARDS (picture)

For lateral decubitus the arm lies in the slot, with the shoulder in the hollow of the incorporated pillow. In this way, the shape of the mattress and the anatomy of the user are perfectly combined, removing the height existing between the shoulder and the chest.
In this way, the spinal colum-cervical axis is placed on the same plane, perfectly parallel to the surface, and the need for the pillow is subsequently removed.

What are the advantages gained by this?

• By not using a pillow and incorporating the arm in the slot, there is no support on the shoulders or arms and the head lowers to the level of the mattress.
• Because the head is lower, the blood supply to the brain is greater and fuller.
• In the prone decubitus positions because the neck is not twisted, all the discomfort which this entails is removed.
• In the latter position, due to the fact that the lower mandible and palate muscles create a moment of force in the sme direction as that of gravity, the air passage pipe is not excessively restricted and this prevents snoring, which is so detrimental to health and other people.
• The arms rest in the bag formed by the sheet inside the slot. In this way, a perfect support comfort is obtained.

We are therefore faced with a revolutionary design; a new concept in the development of applied ergonomics to make us change our customs, which for such a long time have induced us into adopting bad positional habits.

In the view of the above, we are confident that we have made a great effort to contribute to the preventative treatment of the ailments mentioned, thus creating a natural alternative based entirely on positional improvement.

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