24 May 2023
For clinics and at home: REHAB presents a wide range of care beds, mattresses and positioning systems
«As you make your bed, so you lie.» Bertolt Brecht used this wisdom in a song in the 1930s. Statistics now show that Germans sleep an average of 7.7 hours a day. This is all the more true for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses or for bedridden senior citizens: a good care bed and an individually fitting mattress are essential.
This year at REHAB, manufacturers from Germany, as well as the Norwegian company Tidewave, will be presenting care beds for institutions and clinics, and increasingly also homely bed solutions with special mattresses for the home. This is particularly important for the positioning, therapy and care of children and young people with disabilities. For them, a high-quality bed is essential as a recognized aid to safety and protection.
Two traditional, family-run companies from northern Germany, FreiStil and KayserBetten, have been presenting their special bed solutions for young people for years. Made from local beech wood, produced in a sustainable and resource-conserving way, they are of course also ecological and free of harmful substances. In natural colours or painted from pastel light blue to trendy pink, there are design variants for every taste and, above all, for every individual medical-therapeutic area of application.
Thomas Zander, Managing Director of FreiStil from Osnabrück, is convinced: "REHAB is a very well-structured trade fair where we can reach many of our customers from southern Germany that we would otherwise not be able to reach. It offers more time and space to exchange ideas with specialists from medical supply stores and end customers in peace and quiet. Many of our customers from the north now also come to Karlsruhe because the relevant trade fairs are often too crowded and there is a lack of time and leisure to gather information."
Classic care beds for professional use in hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and facilities can be seen from Mühle and SLK. So that they don't look so "clinical" in everyday personal use and still have all the necessary adjustment options for comfort and care, swivel and upright sitting, they are available for use in private life like other furniture with different woods or covered with wash leather or upholstery. Stand-up modules guarantee participation in family life.
People who are seriously ill, lie down a lot and cannot turn themselves need special anti-decubitus systems to prevent dangerous bedsores: From classic alternating pressure systems for all weight and age groups, which are reimbursed by health insurance companies, to innovative dynamic lying systems that provide relief through continuous pressure changes, everything can be seen at REHAB. With the new mattress from Nocubi, individual spring-loaded rollers are systematically pulled under the body within the mattress, thus ensuring constant pressure changes.
Tidewave from Norway presents "Hug", the decubitus ulcer mattress that holds the body like a hug thanks to its curved shape. It turns the patient, relieves pressure sores and also relieves the nursing staff. In times when there is a shortage of skilled staff, it is good when regular mechanical tasks such as regular repositioning are performed by a digital-mechanical mattress, leaving time for personal care and attention.
Menno van Etten, Manager at Tidewave, is already looking forward to the trade fair, as his experience of REHAB 2022 was very positive: "We were able to make excellent business contacts at REHAB in Karlsruhe last year and attracted a lot of attention with our products."