K Care Donatello Standard Support Backrest

From the manufacturer

**The standard support backrest — the right default for most clients.** The alternative in this range adds lateral wings either side of the trunk. Those are for clients whose trunk control is asymmetric or weak: hemiplegia after stroke, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity. **If trunk control is adequate, don't fit them** — laterals restrict sideways movement and reach, and a client who doesn't need them will find the chair confining. The practical test: does the client lean consistently to one side when tired and unsupported? If yes, specify lateral. If no, this is the correct chair. **Dual motor is the specification that matters most here.** Backrest and leg rest drive independently rather than following one fixed recline arc, which is what allows the chair to be set for a fixed hip angle, a flexion contracture, or legs that need to sit above heart height for oedema. A single-motor chair moves both together on a set path, and that path either suits the client or it doesn't. **Lumbar support** maintains the lumbar curve when reclined. Without it the pelvis rolls back and the client slides into sacral sitting — loading the sacrum where pressure injuries form, and making standing harder because they must travel further forward to get their weight over their feet. **Also available in petite.** Size it to the client rather than assuming standard. **Safe working load 158 kg.** **Set the lift so it brings the client to standing height without tipping them forward off the front edge.**

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