The Manual Handling Revolution - Paperback

“The Manual Handling Revolution:  how allied health professionals can achieve creative solutions for people with disabilities and their care givers”

Are you a health professional who wants to feel confident about the manual handling solutions you offer people with disabilities and their caregivers?

The Manual Handling Revolution offers simple yet powerful insights into how we think about manual handling and guides you through a process of changing that thinking to achieve some creative solutions for people with disabilities and their caregivers.

You will discover:

• how to objectively evaluate equipment solutions to find the best option to a problem
• how to get the best out of equipment solutions you already use to eliminate manual handling
• how to achieve a win win outcome for the person with disabilities and their caregivers
• A method for you to feel confident as a professional in the solutions you recommend
• A systematic framework for understanding the manual handling assessment process

If you want to aspire for excellence in manual handling and make a huge impact on the lives of people with disabilities and their caregivers, then this book is for you.

About the Author

Aideen Gallagher is an expert in the moving and handling of people with disabilities. She is passionate about the physical and mental well-being of people with disabilities and the caregivers who support them. She has developed a number of training programmes that are changing the way health professionals think about solving manual handling problems.