- Hi, Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And again, we are the most famous physical therapist
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Brad, we're gonna talk about this device today, aren't we?
- You better believe it.
- We'll show how to use it.
- The EZ Way Smart Stand
and if you've worked on these before
they used to be called EZ Stand
then I'm not sure if EZ Way bought them all,
they turned it into the EZ Way Smart Stands.
But anyways, the EZ Way Smart Stand
and it's designed for transferring people
that don't have the ability or the strength
for whatever reason to transfer, to stand.
You can also do walking with them.
However, we're not gonna cover that in this video.
- And I see the weight limits are 400 pounds,
500 pounds, and 800 pounds.
I'm reading that right off the board.
- Exactly, Bob, and this one happens to be a 500 pounds.
If you have this, you look on the right hand side
looking for the back side, it'll tell you right there
how many pounds is it.
- I'll barely make the cutoff here, Brad.
(both laugh)
- All right.
- Should we get started?
- Yeah, should we just go over the device?
- So did you say it's used for toileting,
dressing, transfers, and ambulation?
- Yes, I did say that, Bob.
- For walking too, you can use to walk.
- Yeah, you can use it for a lot.
- A specific harness for that.
- And you need some adaptions
for which we're not gonna go through.
- We're not gonna go through that today.
- And walking with this, I think should be left
to a skilled therapist not self training with us.
- Okay, sounds good.
- Yep, so here it is.
This is the device.
I've worked with these for a long time.
I really like them compared to other manufacturers.
It's just built well, the battery, is battery powered
which is right here.
- Oh.
- Yeah, I believe they're 44 volt.
- And that just plugs right into the wall?
- Yep, yep.
You have portable device
you put in a room and you just plug it in.
It's plugged into 110 volt source.
And there it is.
- Nice.
- All you do is flip it in there
and hop it in and that's just energy source right there.
- So you could be transferring me,
I could be really sitting on the edge of the bed too.
- Right. - Or I'm in a wheelchair
or I could have done taking a shower and be in one of those,
is it shower chairs?
- You bet. - Yeah.
- Pretty much any chair, you're gonna be able to use this
with someone or a bed.
- I got to put my foot up on here, right?
- Yeah, on the platform.
Maybe we should, take your feet off there one,
the platform down here is easily removable
and it has a stand with it.
You can take it off.
Easy goes on and off.
There's three different level straps.
- There's something on there, Brad.
- Strap.
- No, there you go, I thought you were struggling there.
- There's three levels.
I usually keep it on the bottom.
That works pretty good.
This device here pops off as well.
Adjust the bolt up and down.
Almost always need that on.
Usually at one height, that works pretty good.
That's probably the shin and knee for padding there.
So Bob, you're gonna put your feet.
- It goes up and down
but it doesn't go back and forth.
- No, does not go back and forth, okay.
- My feet up here.
- Oh, another thing.
Take your feet off there again, Bob.
Let's just go through some of these things more.
Look, can you go down here at the bottom?
In the back here, there's a lever
and you can see.
- [Bob] Oh, that widens it.
- [Brad] The legs go wider that way you can get around
on the chair easier when you store it.
- [Bob] Brad, I wanna show the lever.
- Just a bit, Bob, I got to figure it out.
I've been working on this all night.
So that's why you might stir where you're gonna use it
or that way to make it wider, to get around the chair
and it's more stable.
And here we go.
Nice lever and well built,
well thought out when they did this, I think.
All right, well, over here we'll look at,
right here when we push it on.
Look at that, greetings.
It even greets you.
Battery, it's at F so it means it's full.
You can see how full the battery is.
If it's way down here and you're gonna lift someone,
you might better go get a full battery
'cause you don't wanna run out halfway through the lift.
What else do we have here?
The control one here that makes it somewhat portable.
You got button here you can use
or buttons here you can use for up and down.
So you got three different locations
to raise and lower which is nice.
Here's the emergency stop.
If you wanna stop it, you hit it with a palm button,
you rotate it, comes back up and that's done there.
This bag is where you can put the back strap
that we'll go over so you can pull them up,
put them in there.
Keep them out the way.
Here's the EZ device or instruction manual.
Nicely laminated to last, okay.
- All right, now we're-
- Now we're ready.
- You first widen it.
- That's already done, good.
- And if I have trouble putting my leg up,
somebody might has to lift it and put a strap onto there.
- Very common to need a little assistance with that.
There is a strap here that goes around the calf.
Can you help me, Bob?
- Yep.
- This is not always necessarily used
but when it out, use it.
There we go.
Just ensures that keeps your legs in there properly.
All right, okay.
Now, it won't work unless you put the back strap on.
So amazingly Bob, these are all rated for 1000 pounds.
- So you're not-
- You never have to worry about anybody bigger than that,
I don't think.
If you do (inaudible).
Yeah, all right.
- So you just slide it behind me.
- Behind the back below the shoulder blade.
- Yeah, you sit on that camera over there, Nancy.
And there's two loops.
Depends on the size of the person.
Oftentimes, I think the inside one
'cause you want the person a little closer usually
and on these little hooks, there's usually a safety device.
This one does not have it.
We'll get a close off on that one.
This one is functional.
Has a nice, can you zoom into that, Nancy?
- Right there?
Which by the way is very important
because when we were practicing this last time,
this actually came off.
- Right, we'll demonstrate that again.
So the device designer,
sometimes they're made out of rubber.
This is a spring steel on that, they both work well.
I kind of like, I don't know which one is better.
- They both work, stops from falling off.
- Yeah.
Okay, again, back low here
so the patient has the ability to lean forward
then you have them lean back.
These instructions are to grab here and grab here
just like that, okay?
A lot of times what people may wanna do
is they wanna grab like this, not the proper good.
There you go.
Thumb towards the shoulder.
There you go.
And the instructions to the patient
is to elbows in like you're hugging yourself
and hold on tight.
Lean back into the strap.
And it's always important if you're gonna use one
of these that you do it to yourself
and you lift yourself up.
So you get appreciation for it.
- Brad, it does not need to be locked?
- No, as a matter of fact, they suggest not locking it
unless you're using it for standing or walking.
- Okay.
- The wheelchair and this board should be free.
That way they can move around a little bit.
If you lock it, it's probably not the end of the world
but it might fine not to lock it
then that's what they recommend.
I'm gonna use this button here.
There we start going up and I'll demonstrate here.
There's an up button here
and there's a up toggle switch here.
I really like this one better.
- All the same doing the same actions.
- Yep, there's three different switches.
So if you're back here, you can do it with a toggle switch,
a button, or-
- What's that one do?
- This one was the dial down.
- Okay, gotcha.
- Yep, okay.
- All right, here we go.
Are you ready, Bob?
- I'm ready.
- Sit tight, elbows in, lean back,
there you go.
And I want you to help as much as you can.
You're gonna start to push with your legs to stand.
And there's one thing that I did,
I did this on purpose is make sure
that this strap goes around their waist.
It's not one of those things that does a much holding
but it's just kind of helps-
- You do that before you lift them.
- Yep. - Exactly.
- This is not the right way, but you can get away with it
like I just did.
There we go.
It doesn't do holding though.
- All the main support is back here.
- All right, how are you feeling, Bob?
- Good, good.
- Now, we're gonna go up all the way here.
There, you feeling okay, Bob?
- Yeah.
- And if you look, the legs are steady.
If there's no pain and you wanna have the person
stand up to get a stretch, Bob,
can you stand all the way up?
- Good, can you bring your weight forward
if you're strong enough?
Now look it right here,
if you do not have that safety pin on it,
this can come off and then you've got
a major safety concern.
That's why it's important to check those
and make sure you have those on like on this side.
Okay, why don't you go back, Bob.
We're gonna hold this tight there.
When it's popped, you're not gonna have a problem with it.
Okay, feeling good, Bob?
- Feeling good.
- Now the nice thing about these
is you've got someone in there you can easily,
and usually a lot of times you'll do it
like I'm down in lower position to get them
from one chair, wait from there.
If I had a commode, we'll put the commode
or the chair underneath.
All right, down we go.
- Brad, can you speak to a little bit
of who might be appropriate
and who's not appropriate for this?
We got to have some arm strength, I guess.
- Right, right.
Good point.
Arm strength, grip strength is really important.
Grab here, Bob, grab here.
This is my quick screening test, squeeze tight.
If they got a good grip, that's a good thing.
Now, I'm gonna say grab a tug war,
pull, pull hard, pull, pull.
Okay, good.
If they can do that, good grip and they can pull,
they're probably adequate for this
because that's the exact motion to do here to grab
and you pull in.
The other thing is the legs,
you need to have weight barrier
that's tolerated through both legs.
- Right, and that's the issue that comes up quite often
with people when we're seeing them.
Someone comes back with a hip replacement
and they're only allowed to toe touch weight barrier
or a hip fracture and they really cannot use
this device, can they?
- Well, they're are exceptions, but in general
I'm gonna say no.
Hip fracture, femur fracture, knee problem
comes from here up, there's no weight barrier on two legs.
- There's no way around it.
- Right, exactly.
- And that's the problem is that quite often
we have people then but that's all different story.
- Right, yeah, so arm strength, weight barrier is tolerated.
And another big problem we've had in some places,
and that's when you do need this drop,
can you zoom down here?
I want you to pretend you got a knee contracture.
- Okay.
- That you got to pull that up.
- Okay.
- If you don't put that there,
but first start out here.
- [Bob] Okay.
Oh yeah, didn't go up.
- [Brad] Yeah, I've had this happen a number of times
and the person-
- [Bob] I can't straighten my knee.
- [Brad] Yeah, they're confused and they just wanna pull
that knee up and they end up here,
but they're not strong enough on this leg.
- [Bob] Now I'm taking a lot of weight to this leg.
- Yeah, yeah, so that's why we use the strap
around there if the person has a tendency
to contract that knee or pull that knee barrier.
You okay, Bob?
- Yeah.
I mean, what could happen is that someone
could start slid down like this
if they didn't have strength to hold up.
- Exactly, we're gonna do another video on
when not to it and the unsafe parts
when you need the hoer the total lift.
So we're gonna get on with that.
Hold on, Bob.
We're going for a ride.
One thing you do not want to do when they're in there
is say, hang on, Bob, whoa.
I'm just kidding.
- Kind of fun actually.
- Yeah, it really works well on a smooth floor.
This is a carpet floor.
It's a tight carpet.
- It's a little harder. - Yeah, it's a little harder,
but at least smooth floor, these are ideal.
- One thing I would recommend is tell the person
when you're lowering them.
I mean, I can't see anything and I'm relying on the fact,
I know you wouldn't do it, but I-
- I might for you. - Pretend.
You might be with me, but you make sure
you assure the person that there's a chair behind them.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, so they have that,
especially if they haven't used it before
and they don't know you.
- Right.
- They have that built that trust.
Let me see, was there anything else I wanted to?
And the other thing we could do with this,
this is off the record by the way,
I don't think they recommend this but I think it works good.
You can do this.
- You can dip.
- There, you could do dip.
- Wow.
- And this thing is rated for 450 pounds,
there's no reason why it's not gonna hold you.
- So like a dip doing a dip.
- Hey, what?
Like we say, Bob, we're not pretty.
- We're pretty ugly.
I mean, we're pretty old.
- Yeah, and one thing we are not,
we are not professional actors
but we are professional therapists.
- Wow, you are lying.
Good luck to you.
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