Hospital Restraints

When looking at hospital restraints we find that a harness manufacturer was approached by a local mental health hospital to make a device more humane than the metal shackles they used to manage agitated / aggressive patients. A leather restraint was produced, approved and implemented. And this was the birth of leather restraints. The original restraints were used primarily in state hospitals. Today many healthcare and long-term facilities, correctional facilities, police, sheriff and EMS departments, Department of Defense and others public servants concerned for safer work, rehabilitation and therapeutic environments use restraints. Today's trend is to see hospitals moving to polyurethane restraint systems or web restraints (polypropylene or nylon restraints).