Method for dressing hosiery on a person
A method for dressing hosiery on a person with reduced mobility. The method includes: placing the person with reduced mobility in a supine position on an underlying surface, elevating the knee of a leg of the person, sliding a roller support in under the elevated knee so that a first free-rolling roller of the roller support is placed substantially under the elevated knee and so that a second free-rolling roller of the roller support is placed substantially under the calf of the leg. The first free-rolling roller and the second free-rolling roller are interconnected through a base of the roller support. The base has a support face resting on the underlying surface.
1 . A method for dressing hosiery on a person with reduced mobility, said method comprises the comprising steps of:
placing said person with reduced mobility in a supine position on an underlying surface,
elevating a knee of a leg of said person,
sliding a roller support in under said elevated knee so that a first free-rolling roller of said roller support is placed substantially under said elevated knee and so that a second free-rolling roller of said roller support is placed substantially under a calf of said leg, wherein said first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller are interconnected through a base of said roller support, wherein said base comprises a support face resting on said underlying surface,
lowering said knee until said leg rests on said first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller, and
sliding or rolling said hosiery onto said leg so that at least a part of said hosiery slides or rolls between said leg and at least said second free-rolling roller.
2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises a step of elevating said knee again after sliding or rolling said hosiery onto said leg and removing said roller support.
3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said knee of said leg of said person is elevated until a knee angle (KA) between a thigh and a lower leg of said leg is at least 60°.
4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said knee is lowered until said knee rests on said first free-rolling roller and said calf rests on said second free-rolling roller.
5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said first free-rolling roller rotates around a first rotation axis and said second free-rolling roller rotates around a second rotation axis, and
wherein said method further comprises sliding said roller support in under said elevated knee so that said first rotation axis and said second rotation axis are transverse in relation to a longitudinal direction of said leg.
6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said support face is substantially flat and extending past both said first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller before sliding said roller support in under said elevated knee.
7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said first free-rolling roller rotates around a first rotation axis and said second free-rolling roller rotates around a second rotation axis, and
wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said first rotation axis is extending further from said support face than said second rotation axis.
8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said hosiery is a compression stocking.
9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said first free-rolling roller rotates around a first rotation axis and said second free-rolling roller rotates around a second rotation axis,
wherein said first rotation axis is arranged at a first roller distance (FD) of between 30 and 300 mm from said support face, and
wherein said second rotation axis is arranged in a second roller distance (SD) between 5 and 60% closer to said support face than said first rotation axis.
10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that at least one of said first or said second free-rolling roller is padded.
11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller are substantially parallel, and so that an axis of said first free-rolling roller and an axis of said second free-rolling roller is are oriented, respectively, to be substantially perpendicular to a direction in which said parallel first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller are displaced from each other.
12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said first free-rolling roller rotates around a first rotation axis and said second free-rolling roller rotates around a second rotation axis, and wherein said first rotation axis and said second rotation axis are displaced between 50 and 500 mm.
13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method further comprises forming said roller support so that said first free-rolling roller and said second free-rolling roller are substantially identical.