Airform

Indications

  • Mild to moderate low back support
  • Focused compression in lumbar area
  • Pain reduction
  • Reduced swelling
  • Increased blood flow

Contraindications

Cold therapy should not be used for patients with:

  • Raynaud's disease
  • Poor peripheral circulation
  • Diabetes
  • Decreased skin sensitivity
  • Hypersensitivity to cold

Heat therapy should not be used for patients with:

  • Acute injury or inflammation
  • Recent or potential hemorrhage
  • Thrombophlebitis malignancy

Warnings

  • Limit brace compression to avoid restricting circulation.

Cold therapy

  • Extreme care must be taken when using any cryotherapy product. Any cold product may cause frostbite if improperly used.
  • Children and those who are incapacitated should be supervised in their use of cold gel packs.

Heat therapy

  • Heat therapy may cause serious burns. Do not use over sensitive skin or in the presence of poor circulation. Persons with diabetes should be especially careful with heat.
  • Children and those who are incapacitated should be supervised in their use of hot gel packs.

Precautions

  • Patients with poor sensation or mentation
  • Very young or very old patients
  • Hypertension

Cold therapy

  • Over superficial branch of a nerve
  • Hypertension
  • Over an open wound

Heat therapy

  • Pregnancy
  • Areas with poor circulation or poor thermal regulation
  • Edema
  • Cardiac insufficiency
  • Metal

Adverse Reactions

Cold therapy

  • Tissue death
  • Frostbite
  • Nerve damage
  • Unwanted vasodilation

Heat therapy

  • Burns
  • Bleeding
  • Fainting

 

CAUTION: Applicable federal, state, and/or local regulations may restrict this device to sale by or on the order of a practitioner licensed by the law of the State in which he/she practices to use or order the use of the device.

 

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