The Best Accessories for Your Medical Scales

In this post of mine, I’m going to talk about medical scale accessories like height rods, wheels, and counterweights. If you need any of the above accessories, read on to find more. Usually the gradations marked on your height rod stay long, but after some years they become invisible. So, you have to replace it with a new one.

At Wholesale Point , height measuring systems are available for Tanita, Seca, HealthOMeter , and Detecto fitness scales. What a medical professional or any health-conscious person would look for in a stadiometer is its accuracy and reliability. That is exactly what you will find in the products sold by Wholesale Point.

Tanita HR 200 wall mountable height rods are suitable for scales and body composition analyzers. Seca 202, 216, 220, 222, 223, and 240 are mechanical telescopic measuring rods. If you are looking for a digital version from Seca, then model 242 is an ideal choice. Portrod plastic wall-mountable height rods from HealthOMeter are lightweight devices that can easily be carried anywhere.

Detecto 3PHTrod 1 height measuring equipment can be used with physician scales. Model number 3 of Detecto 3PHTrod are suitable for all waist-high digital scales except for models 8430 and 8431. The Detecto 4PHTrod-2 height rods are built to fit with all Detecto waist-high mechanical scales except for model 080.

Wheels in digital medical scales are likely to get damaged soon. They have to be changed regularly for effortless mobility. HealthOMeter wheels are suitable for beam scale models: 400KL, 402LB, and 402KL; digital scale models: 592KLS-01, 751KLS-01, and 591KLS-01. Detecto 3PWHL scale wheels are designed to be used with all eye-level physician scales and the 8430 and 8437 waist-high scales.
To increase the capacity of your HealthOMeter balance beam scales, you need counterweights. Both 100 lb and 150 lb counterweights are available with hooks on poise bar.

You will find more information on health management software, adaptors, printers, thermal paper rolls, and weight scale carrying cases in my next post.

Do You Have a Bathroom Scale?

Healthy diet, regular exercise, and an active lifestyle is just not enough. Regular monitoring of body weight on a reliable scale is very important. It is really very convenient to have a bathroom scale at home. Don’t you have one? If not, buy a good quality bathroom weight scale soon. When you buy one for home use, you can measure your body weight as and when you like in the privacy of your bathroom or anywhere else.

To keep a tab on your body weight, you should measure it at least once a week and maintain a chart to know your progress. If you are trying to lose body weight, then you will be tempted to monitor weight level every day. Nothing wrong with that, after all, it’s your scale!

You will be quite surprised to see the number of bathroom scales being sold online by various merchants. Wholesale Point is a full-service distributor of medical supplies, exercise and fitness equipments and other related products manufactured by well known brands. You can also find a variety of medical scales, body fat analyzers, and heart rate monitors in the website.

Be it a large dial floor scale, a remote display scale, or a waist-high mechanical balance beam scale, you will find a variety of each kind at Wholesale Point.com. They sell quality products from brands, like Tanita, Homedics, Weight Watchers, Escali, HealthOMeter, Seca, and Conair.

I got my digital bathroom weight scale at WholesalePoint.com and am very pleased with its performance. The price was quite reasonable too. It is a Soft Pink Escali Round Glass Platform Bathroom Scale that goes well with my bathroom décor. This scale is impact resistant and is also available in sage green, black, Rio red, midnight blue, and silver grey. It comes with a capacity of up to 400 lb/180 kg. Switching it on is very easy; you just have to tap the platform with your feet.

Growing Young with Age

Old age, also called as the ‘second childhood’, is something many don’t like entering to. But as they say, life is the way you look at it. Feel and act young and you will be young forever. Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that is related to this phase of human life. It deals with the health care for the elderly. The main focus of this branch of medicine is promotion of health among old adults and prevention and treatment of diseases and disabilities.

Geriatricians , in the United States, are primary care physicians with board certification in either family or internal medicine. It is also necessary for them to undergo an additional training to acquire the Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) in geriatric medicine. Geriatrics doctors in the UK are hospital physicians and are considered internal medicine specialists.

When it comes to geriatrics care , doctors recommend making physical activity a part of the everyday life of the elderly. If you find exercises tiring, try doing things you like. Go for a brisk walk, ride a bike, or dance! Yeah, keep your muscles engaged. This will sure boost up your energy level. Thirty minutes of activity a day is advised and make sure that this activity makes you breathe harder. It is termed as “endurance activity” and helps to build your stamina. Keeping muscles in shape can play an important role in preventing many serious problems among the aged. Try doing things that will help increase your balance. Try standing on one foot and then the other without any support. Also, avoid using your hands or arms when getting up from a chair. Stretch to the maximum – this will keep you plaint and flexible.

The bottom line is, keep your body healthy and active even when you are young and this will sure help you a great deal during your old age! Try it and you will be happy that you did!

Why Post Bariatric Exercise is a Must

Bariatric surgery is indeed a blessing for those with clinical obesity to lose weight and stay fit. However, lack of post-bariatric exercises might take you back to the earlier stage. That is why bariatric exercises are too important to ignore.

Role of post-bariatric exercises:

• To burn calories

• To increase the energy level

• To relieve stress

• To minimize fat buildup

• To lower blood pressure

• To strengthen bones

• To boost the immune system

Soon after a bariatric surgery, a patient will be taking fewer calories. This makes the body to respond as if it were starving, resulting in the burning of muscles instead of fat. To prevent this from happening, it is a must that you start an exercise routine soon after the surgery. Also, after the bariatric surgery a patient often has an excess of loose skin on the thighs, arms, midsection, and buttocks. Exercise is a must to tighten these muscles. So, chalk out a bariatric exercise program as early as possible.

Any bariatric exercise program usually includes both aerobic exercises and conditioning exercises. Aerobic exercises are recommended as they help improve the functioning of one’s heart and lungs. Conditioning exercises, on the other hand, strengthen muscles and bones. So these exercises focus on flexibility and weight resistance. Flexibility exercises include yoga, stretching, and warm-ups whereas, rowing machine, push-ups, and weights form a part of resistant exercise.