1. Simon Love BA MCSP SRP Moving & Handling Practitioner
Advanced Member National Back Exchange
Chair of Yorkshire Branch
Product review panel

2. The profiling bed
The dos and don’ts
For personal comfort

3. Beds come in an enormous variety of designs
Huge variety of functions
Based on the ‘average’ anthropometrics

4. People are all different

5. in the persons position in bed can make a
Small changes
in the persons position
in bed
can make a
disproportionate difference to their comfort

6. Do you know what you weigh?
Mass x Acceleration
The mass of the body creates a vector force
as it is accelerated by gravity

7. Do you know what you weigh?
This force is calculated by:-
Mass in Kgs x 10 (gravitational factor)= Number of Newtons
80kg x 10 = 800N

8. by any part of the body must reach the ground
The force generated
by any part of the body must reach the ground

9. Force creates a pressure
Dependant upon the
Surface area in contact

10. Pressure = F/Surface Area
P=F/SA

11. of the weight has no effect
Large surface area
of the weight has no effect on
the block of wood
despite a force of 100n

12. drawing pin increases the pressure exerted by the 100n
The small surface area
of the
drawing pin increases the pressure exerted by the 100n

15. Pressure = F/Surface Area
Narrow leg pieces =
Small surface area =
Increased pressure =
Discomfort?
Wider leg pieces =
larger surface area =
Decreased pressure =
More comfort?

19. Exercise 1

22. Pressures   

23. Pressures   

24. Comfort scale 0=extremely uncomfortable 10=extremely comfortable

25. Comfort scale 0=extremely uncomfortable 10=extremely comfortable

26. UP
Resultant Force
Forwards