Support Station by Rifton

• Greater dignity and independence:  – Putting an end to infant-like, horizontal hygiene can have dramatic emotional benefits. Even people with very limited weight-bearing ability can now participate in their own personal care.
• Improved safety for carers: – Eliminating transfers to a mat or changing table means less lifting and wrestling with clothing, plus clothing and skin are more accessible – so the process is healthier for everyone.
• Practice in strength and skill building: Using their own strength and skills to transfer and support themselves, people improve weight-bearing and motor skills over time.
• Less time out: Faster than horizontal changing, the Support Station lets everyone spend less time on hygiene and more time in class, in therapy or simply enjoying life.

Self-assisted transfers are enabled by the Rifton Support Station. Hand slots, elbow curves, and optional handholds on the padded trunk board provide versatile options for self-support to accommodate users’ varying needs. Even users with limited hand control can assist in transfer from their wheelchair to a toilet or commode, or by remaining upright for changing.

With the trunk board in a nearly horizontal position, even a large, non-weight-bearing user is able to use the Rifton Support Station for toilet transfers. A support strap with buckle lends added safety while a carer adjusts clothing.

It’s verys simple to adjust the trunk board angle using the upper handles. Adjust the trunk board height using the lower handles with safety trigger.

Numbered calibrations indicate height of trunk board from the floor. Adjust trunk board height by using the lower pair of black handles on the Support Station frame. A safety trigger prevents accidental release of the height adjustment handle.

When installed without the kneeboard, the Support Station can be pivoted to aid transfers from a wheelchair to a fixed toilet or commode. In the horizontal position, the padded trunk board can pivot 180°, enabling the user to safely move his or her feet in an arc – often independently – and comfortably transfer to the toilet.

Located conveniently at the top of the white slotted trunk board, the lever controlling rotation can be operated by either carer or user.

With the comfortable kneeboard in place for leverage, the user using this changing station can remain in an upright, forward-leaning position for convenient clothing adjustment, hygiene care, transfer to a rolling commode or shower chair or simply for diaper changing.

The user’s torso rests comfortably on the padded trunk board, with only as much weight-bearing through the legs as the user can comfortably tolerate. Even non-weight-bearing adults have experienced success in using this type of changing table.

In either configuration, the Support Station trunk board can be adjusted by sliding it up or down the vertical posts so that it is either horizontal or vertical to the floor—or at any angle in between.

Thus a user can be encouraged to assume a more upright posture. After a simple transfer, even a large, non-weight-bearing user is in a comfortable, more dignified and accessible position for hygiene care with the help of the Support Station.