HydroFlex
HydroFlex
Our highly adaptable rehabilitation chair designed for individuals with complex posture and pressure management needs. Its wide range of positions and comprehensive options allow for correction or accommodation of specific postural challenges.
Our highly adaptable rehabilitation chair designed for individuals with complex posture and pressure management needs. Its wide range of positions and comprehensive options allow for correction or accommodation of specific postural challenges.
Suitable for:
Adults & Children
With:
Complex Postural Requirements
Suitable for:
Adults & Children
With:
Complex Postural Requirements
Introducing the HydroFlex, the ultimate flexible rehabilitation chair, designed to meet complex posture and pressure management needs. This innovative chair offers a wide array of adaptable positions, ensuring it can be tailored to address specific postural challenges and integrate seamlessly into rehabilitation programmes.
With features such as back angle recline for enhanced comfort and relaxation, and Tilt-in-Space functionality that improves pelvic stability while preserving hip and knee angles, the HydroFlex promotes energy management and pressure redistribution like no other.
It incorporates advanced elements, including integral pressure management with WaterCell Technology, to minimise the risk of pressure injuries. The articulating head section allows for precise profiling to accommodate complex head positions, ensuring a stable and secure fit for those with increased thoracic kyphosis. Meanwhile, the elevating channel leg rest, complete with an integral footplate, provides optimal lower limb positioning and alignment, allowing users to experience unparalleled comfort and support throughout their rehabilitation journey.
Neurological Conditions
Stroke: Providing support for individuals recovering from stroke by accommodating varying levels of mobility and strength, enhancing stability during rehabilitation.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Tailored adjustments help manage postural challenges resulting from brain injuries, promoting comfort and safety while supporting recovery.
Cerebral Palsy: Its adaptability caters to the unique postural needs of individuals with cerebral palsy, ensuring proper alignment and pressure management.
Spinal and Muscular Disorders
Spinal Cord Injury: The chair’s design supports individuals with spinal cord injuries by offering enhanced stability and pressure relief, crucial for long-term comfort and health.
Multiple Sclerosis: For those with MS, the HydroFlex addresses fluctuating strength and balance issues, providing the necessary support for daily activities.
Motor Neurone Disease: The seating aids individuals with MND by facilitating easy adjustments for changing postural needs, ensuring continued comfort and security.
Muscle Tone and Balance Challenges
Muscle Weakness or Paralysis: Suitable for users with varying degrees of muscle strength, offering adjustable features that enhance sitting stability.
Abnormal Muscle Tone: The chair’s flexibility accommodates users with different muscle tone challenges, promoting better posture and comfort.
Poor Sitting Balance and Head Control: With aspects that support head and trunk alignment, the HydroFlex helps users maintain balance and posture throughout daily activities.
Postural Concerns
Pelvic Instability: Offers targeted support for individuals with pelvic instability, enhancing their overall stability while seated.
Scoliosis: The adjustability helps accommodate the curvature of the spine, ensuring comfort and proper alignment for users with scoliosis.
Increased Thoracic Kyphosis: The design promotes optimal thoracic alignment, aiding individuals with increased kyphosis by supporting a more neutral spine position.
Domestic & Home Care: An excellent choice for home care providing essential support. Its adaptability enhances comfort, allowing users to engage in daily activities safely. This promotes independence while minimising the risk of injury, improving the overall quality of life for both users and caregivers.
Nursing & Residential Homes: In nursing and residential homes, the HydroFlex accommodates a variety of residents with complex care needs. Its robust construction supports long-term seating, ensuring comfort and safety during transfers.
Specialist Wards (Stroke Rehabilitation, Brain/Spinal Injury, ITU): The HydroFlex is ideal for specialist wards, such as stroke rehabilitation and ITU, where it meets the unique needs of recovering patients. Its adjustability allows healthcare professionals to customise support for each individual, facilitating effective rehabilitation and ensuring comfort during extended use. This chair is essential for promoting recovery and improving patient outcomes in specialised care settings.
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Neurological Conditions
Stroke: Providing support for individuals recovering from stroke by accommodating varying levels of mobility and strength, enhancing stability during rehabilitation.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Tailored adjustments help manage postural challenges resulting from brain injuries, promoting comfort and safety while supporting recovery.
Cerebral Palsy: Its adaptability caters to the unique postural needs of individuals with cerebral palsy, ensuring proper alignment and pressure management.
Spinal and Muscular Disorders
Spinal Cord Injury: The chair’s design supports individuals with spinal cord injuries by offering enhanced stability and pressure relief, crucial for long-term comfort and health.
Multiple Sclerosis: For those with MS, the HydroFlex addresses fluctuating strength and balance issues, providing the necessary support for daily activities.
Motor Neurone Disease: The seating aids individuals with MND by facilitating easy adjustments for changing postural needs, ensuring continued comfort and security.
Muscle Tone and Balance Challenges
Muscle Weakness or Paralysis: Suitable for users with varying degrees of muscle strength, offering adjustable features that enhance sitting stability.
Abnormal Muscle Tone: The chair’s flexibility accommodates users with different muscle tone challenges, promoting better posture and comfort.
Poor Sitting Balance and Head Control: With aspects that support head and trunk alignment, the HydroFlex helps users maintain balance and posture throughout daily activities.
Postural Concerns
Pelvic Instability: Offers targeted support for individuals with pelvic instability, enhancing their overall stability while seated.
Scoliosis: The adjustability helps accommodate the curvature of the spine, ensuring comfort and proper alignment for users with scoliosis.
Increased Thoracic Kyphosis: The design promotes optimal thoracic alignment, aiding individuals with increased kyphosis by supporting a more neutral spine position.
Domestic & Home Care: An excellent choice for home care providing essential support. Its adaptability enhances comfort, allowing users to engage in daily activities safely. This promotes independence while minimising the risk of injury, improving the overall quality of life for both users and caregivers.
Nursing & Residential Homes: In nursing and residential homes, the HydroFlex accommodates a variety of residents with complex care needs. Its robust construction supports long-term seating, ensuring comfort and safety during transfers.
Specialist Wards (Stroke Rehabilitation, Brain/Spinal Injury, ITU): The HydroFlex is ideal for specialist wards, such as stroke rehabilitation and ITU, where it meets the unique needs of recovering patients. Its adjustability allows healthcare professionals to customise support for each individual, facilitating effective rehabilitation and ensuring comfort during extended use. This chair is essential for promoting recovery and improving patient outcomes in specialised care settings.
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Key Features
Key Features
Back Angle Recline (BAR)
Helps relieve pressure on hips and abdomen to improve comfort.
Tilt-in-Space
Eases pressure and fatigue, and supports safe, comfortable rest.
Ergonomic Push Handle
Designed with carers in mind, this handle offers safe and easy handling for moving and positioning the chair.
Articulating Head Support
Headrest effortlessly adjusts to profile head support, providing continuous support for altered head and spine positions.
Flat Back Rest with CareFlex WaterCell Technology®
Tailored trunk support for security in the chair and optimum health.
WaterCell Technology®
Distributes weight to protect skin and reduce pressure risk.
Adjustable Seat Depth
Provides stability and reduces the risk of sliding or falling in the chair.
Independently Elevating, Channel Leg rest
Articulating leg rest with an integral footplate, allowing the user to elevate legs above hip level to reduce swelling and help stabilise posture.
Angle Adjustable, Fold-Down Footplate
Aids stability, pressure care, and independence with transfers.
Fixed or Loose Covers
Choice of fixed covers for easy cleaning and durability, or loose covers that offer adaptability for multi-user environments.
Accessories
Back Angle Recline (BAR)
Helps relieve pressure on hips and abdomen to improve comfort.
Tilt-in-Space
Eases pressure and fatigue, and supports safe, comfortable rest.
Ergonomic Push Handle
Designed with carers in mind, this handle offers safe and easy handling for moving and positioning the chair.
Articulating Head Support
Headrest effortlessly adjusts to profile head support, providing continuous support for altered head and spine positions.
Flat Back Rest with CareFlex WaterCell Technology®
Tailored trunk support for security in the chair and optimum health.
WaterCell Technology®
Distributes weight to protect skin and reduce pressure risk.
Adjustable Seat Depth
Provides stability and reduces the risk of sliding or falling in the chair.
Independently Elevating, Channel Leg rest
Articulating leg rest with an integral footplate, allowing the user to elevate legs above hip level to reduce swelling and help stabilise posture.
Angle Adjustable, Fold-Down Footplate
Aids stability, pressure care, and independence with transfers.
Fixed or Loose Covers
Choice of fixed covers for easy cleaning and durability, or loose covers that offer adaptability for multi-user environments.
Accessories
Pelvic Belt
A simple webbing belt designed for use during portering, providing basic pelvic positioning.
Padded Pelvic Belt
Maintains pelvic position with added padding for enhanced user comfort.
Groin Harness
A positioning aid that provides maximum pelvic control and prevents the user from sliding forward in the seat, enhancing safety and posture.
Chest Harness
Offers comfortable chest support, allowing active positioning without restriction.
Sternum Harness
Provides additional upper trunk stability while still allowing user movement, improving safety and comfort.
Anterior Knee Strap
Works with the pommel to position the knees, pushing the pelvis into an upright position for optimal posture.
Neck Headrest
Features a deep profile to offer greater lateral control, supporting the neck and head.
Soft Profiled Headrest
Contoured pillow that fits around the shoulders, neck and head, providing a supportive head position.
HydroFlex Soft Profiled Headrest
An ultra-soft, deep pillow that conforms to the head and shoulders, delivering high comfort and gentle support.
InLine Headrest
Memory foam-lined headrest with cut-away sides, offering full cranial support without obstructing sight or hearing.
Laterally Contoured Backrest
A sculpted cushion for moderate trunk support, helping to maintain midline positioning and accommodate natural movements.
Adjustable Laterals
Height and width adjustable thoracic supports with various pad sizes and shapes, ideal for simple or complex spinal profiles.
Blockers
Simple lateral support pads covered with Vapour Permeable (VP) fabric for comfort and breathability.
Transfer Arm
Removable armrests for easy user transfer in and out of the chair, available on one or both sides to meet different accessibility needs.
Pommel
Provides knee support to prevent legs from pinching together, promoting a comfortable and stable posture.
Seat Wedge
Removable armrests for easy user transfer in and out of the chair, available on one or both sides to meet different accessibility needs.
Detachable Footplate Pad
An attachable pad for the footplate to offer additional comfort and cushioning.
Extended Footplate
Provides full foot sensory feedback, enhancing comfort and postural alignment.
Chair Protector
Covers the seat, arms, and lower back to prevent contamination and debris from getting trapped in the chair’s moving parts, enhancing cleanliness and durability.
Seat Width Adjustment
Includes adjustable arms (choice of 2 heights), backrest option (flat or contoured), and appropriate cover, allowing seat width adjustments.
Dynamic Air Cushion
Dynamic air cell technology designed for users with high pressure care needs, ensuring optimal comfort and skin protection.
FAQs
Where can I find the serial number on a HydroFlex chair?
Please watch this How to Guide: HydroFlex Serial Number video.
How do you alter the seat depth of a HydroFlex chair?
Please watch this How to Guide: HydroFlex seat depth video.
How do you alter the leg rest on a HydroFlex chair?
Please watch this How to Guide: HydroFlex leg rest video.
How do I change the seat width on a HydroFlex chair?
Please watch this How to Guide: HydroFlex seat width video.
What are the sizes and dimensions of the adjustable laterals for the HydroFlex?
The overall size and dimension of the adjustable laterals for the HydroFlex depend on the chest width created by the setting selected along with the dimensions of the required pad type.
Sizes:
– Small HydroFlex (Regular: 150-250mm, Wide: 300-400mm)
– Medium HydroFlex (Regular: 265-320mm, Wide: 385-455mm)
There are 4 pad types available for the HydroFlex.
