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Four-point restraints, fabric body holders, straitjackets are typically only used temporarily during psychiatric emergencies. Restraint masks to prevent patients from biting in retaliation to medical authority in situations where a patient is known to be violent.
If fabric restraints are inadequate to restrain a patient, leather or metal restraints can be used. In most places, legal restrictions apply to the use of restraints in clinical settings. The application of limb restraints on both arms and legs at once is sometimes known as a four-point restraint.
In even more extreme cases, inmates may be placed in "therapeutic restraints", a four- or five-point restraint system. The inmate is placed on their back on a mattress. Their arms and legs are tied down and a belt is placed across the chest. In a five-point system, the head is also restrained.
The lead singer of the Four Tops has sued a Detroit-area hospital for racial discrimination, claiming its staff placed him into a restraining jacket and ordered a psychiatric evaluation because ...
A Posey vest is a type of medical restraint used to restrain a patient to a bed or chair. [1] Its name comes from the J.T. Posey Company, its inventor, though the term "Posey" is used generically to describe all such devices. [2]
The lead singer of Motown's legendary Four Tops has sued a Michigan hospital claiming racial discrimination after staff members assumed he was “delusional” when he said he was in the group and ...
The effect of a straitjacket as a restraint makes it of special interest in escapology. The straitjacket is also a staple prop in stage magic. The straitjacket comes from the Georgian era of medicine. Physical restraint was used both as treatment for mental illness and to pacify patients in understaffed asylums.
Alexander Morris, the current lead singer of Four Tops, has sued a Michigan hospital claiming racial discrimination after staff assumed he was “delusional” and not in the group.