How To | Shower Commodes - Ramps and Inclines and Thresholds
Learn more about shower commode ramps, inclines, and thresholds.
Ramps and Inclines and Thresholds
- Ensure that you have an attendant with you when accessing floor thresholds (shower recesses).
- Ramps and other surfaces that are not level (such as slopes into showers) must be tested with an attendant to ensure that they don’t compromise the shower commode chair’s stability. A qualified healthcare professional should be consulted to assist with this process.
- Do not push or pull the shower commode chair up or down an incline or ramp that exceeds a 1:12 grade (5° slope) or over a threshold.
- Do not allow any user to be propelled (pushed or pulled) in a Juvo attendant propelled shower commode chair in any other manner than by an attendant.
- Never push attendant or self-propelled shower commode over a threshold. Attendant to always have full control of the push handle of the shower commode.