When you sit or lie down, those areas of your body touching the chair/ bed are pressed against. This prevents free blood flow to those areas. After a while, if you do not move or change your sitting/ lying position, pressure builds up on that area.

Your body cells around that area become irritated and starts to itch and become a little swollen. That is the beginning of a progressive – and often swift – slide into skin damage, blood poisioning and internal organs exposure. Many times causing or increasing a disability or even death!

If neglected or untreated, or if underlying health conditions such as Diabetes prevents them [pressure sores] from healing, the sores can become life threatening.

If you will be confined to a wheelchair for any considerable length of time, here are 5 Proven Steps to keep you pain and pressure sore free:

Constant, unrelieved pressure on any part of the body will lead to pressure areas, then sores on that part of the body. For one with a disability, the risk of developing a pressure sore on that area supporting the disability is increased. The presence of pressure sores on any part of the body causes a [...]

Due to the fragile nature of aging skin and the general delicate health of the elderly, pressure sores pose a huge threat to the well-being and quality of life of our elderly…

For those times when even with the best vigil, pressure sores still occur, treatment will depend on …

As a disabled worker, from the moment you wake up in the morning, till you finally get back into bed at the end of the working day, life is full of excitement and challenges…

It is important, therefore, as one identified to be ‘at risk’ of pressure sores, that you take on the full responsibilty for your personal care…