Align Pressure Redistribution Mattress with Shear Reduction Technology

Delivering an innovative solution to reduce shearing forces, the Align Pressure Redistribution Mattress with Shear Reduction Technology offers a cost-effective option for people at risk of experiencing skin breakdown. Specially configured to absorb the forces that damage skin and lead to skin breakdown and pressure ulcers, the Align's reactive foam replacement surface with proprietary SRT (Shear Reduction Technology) ensures proper pressure redistribution. It also minimizes shear forces present during client movement in bed and during transfers.

As an inventive new way for the two components of the mattress to move on each other, SRT ensures the body stays relative to the top surface while the movement takes place inside the mattress, addressing shear from the inside out. This award-winning and independently-tested technology utilizes a low-friction material to separate two layers of alternative foam to effectively absorb and dissipate shear forces. The Align's foam head and foot sections are fixed in place, ensuring the component parts of the mattress reset themselves. The higher-cut middle section offers comfortable immersion without compromising transfers. Multi-zoned to fulfill pressure redistribution requirements at the head, torso, and feet, the Align mattress provides 360-degrees of movement, reducing shear in all directions. Its side bolsters feature accordion cuts for an excellent transfer edge to help minimize the risk of falls and facilitate safe patient transfers.

The Align mattress is ideal for people at a higher risk of skin breakdown. Those living with lymphatic and circulatory disorders will greatly benefit as this mattress helps reduce falls by minimizing the need for repositioning, along with its bolstered edges. Its incontinence cover repels moisture and liquids, and offers a 5-way stretch to optimize user comfort and positioning while reducing shear.

Trusted and recommended by healthcare professionals, the home healthcare comfort products from 5 Minds Mobility offer superior solutions for the painful and costly problems associated with shear and pressure management in high-risk patient groups. Advancing clinical expectations, their patent-pending Shear Reduction Technology (SRT) system has been validated through third-party clinical studies for efficacy, and was awarded the Colleges of Ontario Network of Industry Innovation Award in 2011.