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Do adjustable beds help back pain?
Updated 21 February 2022. While you might think that an injury or underlying medical condition are the primary causes of regular back pain, absolutely anyone can experience back pain which can be caused by poor posture and the strain of our daily activities. Sitting,...
How Our Australian Business Created the World’s First Huntington’s Furniture
The Best Chair and Bed for People With Involuntary Movement If you suffer from a condition causing involuntary movement or care for someone who does, you probably know how difficult it is to stay safe, secure and comfortable. It’s been more than five years since our...
How the Novacorr Huntington’s Chair became
In 2011 Novacorr Healthcare were contacted by two senior Occupation Therapists from LifeTec (QLD Independent Living Centre). They had one simple question, would Novacorr consider making a chair for a client with advanced Huntingtons Disease? So thanks to the wonderful...
How the Novacorr Huntington’s Bed became
Novacorr Healthcare was extremely proud and humbled to have been asked to design and build a bed specifically for clients suffering the devastating effects of Huntington’s Disease. The original request to build the bed came from 2 Occupational Therapist within LifeTec...
Juvenile Huntington Disease (JHD)
Juvenile Huntington Disease (JHD) is a form of Huntington’s disease, identified initially by particular signals and indicators prior to a person reaching twenty years of age. Exact universality of the juvenile form is not known, but it is approximated to be about 1 in...
Exercises to defeat obesity.
Walking Although walking is part of a persons every day life, it is often underestimated in terms of physical exercise, walking opposed to being manually driven around so forth may serve as one of the first steps toward a healthier lifestyle. The American Heart...
Bariatric Surgery
There are three main types of bariatric procedures conducted in Australia. These are as follows: Laporoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (The LAP BAND system). Gastric Bypass. Non-Adjustable gastric bypass (Sleeve Gastrectomy). Of the three major forms of bariatric...
Bariatric dietary requirements post surgery
The type or gastric surgery performed determines the diet recommendation of each individual. The diet normally follows a step-by-step method to assist you back into eating solids as you health is restored. The speed in which you move from one stage to the next relies...
Business trip to Poland
Novacorr Healthcare had the extreme honor of being cordially invited to present our innovative, patent pending Huntington Disease Bed & Chair at the Annual European Huntington Association convention in Poland this year. After much organization, arrangements were...
What is Bariatric?
What is Bariatric? The dictionary definition of the word bariatric is as follows: 1976, from Greek baros "weight," from barys "heavy" (see grave (adj.)) + -iatric. The branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. What is...
