Teaching Body Mechanics and Safety

Education

When teaching your patient proper body mechanics and trying to increase their safety awareness, sometimes verbal instructions are simply not enough.  We need to think out of the box in order for them to understand correct body mechanics and safety techniques for their functional activities.

Technique

For this activity, you can print pictures online of correct and incorrect positioning and body mechanics.  Then, have your patients flip over the picture that shows the incorrect way of performing an activity until only the correct pictures are facing up.  This is a great activity to have your patient perform during their initial evaluation in order for you to gain insight into their safety awareness. You can even turn it into a goal by writing “patient will score 5/5 on safety awareness activity in 90 days in order to decrease falls risk.”

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