Large Selection of Home Health Care Supplies
For our Pharmacy and Home Health Care customers, we offer a large selection of braces and supports, kinesiology tape and diabetic wound care shoes.
For stores that are just starting to offer bracing to their customers, we offer competitively priced lines of supports from LP Support, Mueller Sports Medicine and McDavid. We can also advise on planograms if necessary. For the McDavid planograms, Dunbar Medical can include floor stands at no additional cost. This will be especially valuable to those establishments with limited wall space or those in built up urban areas where space is at a premium.
Our BioSkin line of bracing represents a premium quality offering of completely hypoallergenic and 100% latex and neoprene free braces that are designed for comfort while providing medical grade compression.
In addition to our bracing, we offer the complete line of DARCO post operative footwear designed to redistribute pressure to a different part of the foot in order to allow surgical, diabetic or other wounds to heal. The DARCO line includes both shoes and insoles so your customers can customize their choices to suit their individual needs.
Other popular product lines in this section are:
- the DryPro line of vacuum seals that will protect casts or bodily openings against moisture and bacteria, allowing the patient to shower, bathe or swim freely;
- The OPPO line of foot care products designed to treat common foot problems like bunions, corns, etc.
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Retail Displays3 Products
Retail displays are an essential component of the visual merchandising strategy for retail businesses. The purpose of these displays is to attract and engage customers and to retain their interest with the intention of gradually producing a sale. Retail displays fall into two main categories - window displays and shelf displays. In creating your window displays, your main priority should be to remain topical and seasonal. You should change these displays regularly, always ensuring that the products in these displays are easy to find inside the store. However, you should not necessarily place them at the front of the store. Instead, the idea is to give potential customers a reason to explore the inside of the store where they may find additional products that spark their interest. In creating your shelf based retail displays, avoid clutter and place the most popular products between eye and knee level. Place the most profitable products at eye level. Childrens' products should be placed at the typical eye level for a child. In addition, pay particular attention to the displays you place at the end of each shelf. -
K Tape9 Products
Kinesiology tape (also called K Tape) is designed to promote healing from repetitive stress injuries. This includes injuries from sporting, work or recreational activities. It works by gently lifting the skin over the injured area as the patient performs his or her regular daily movements. By facilitating the flow of blood and/or lymphatic fluids through the area, k tape accelerates healing and reduces the pain of the injury. You can find more information on this type of taping therapy in our blog post on how k taping works. As you browse the selection of k tape products below, you will notice that it includes two types of tape. There are regular tape rolls as well as pre cut tape segments designed for specific areas of the body. In general, you can use the regular k tape rolls on any area of the body on which you have experienced an injury. However, they will require somewhat more skill and knowledge for successful application. On the other hand, you can use pre cuts only on specific body parts. However, you will find them easier to apply than the standard rolls. When applying k tape, be careful ensure that the area to which you intend to apply it is clean and dry. You should also avoid using any lotions, creams or oils on the area before application. Additionally, if body hair is present on the area, it is best to shave it before application. Please bear these comments in mind as you browse our selection of k tape products below. -
Diabetes Wound Care8 Products
Our diabetes wound care footwear section includes therapeutic shoes that redistribute pressure across the foot. These shoes are primarily for the benefit of diabetic patients suffering from conditions such as neuropathic ulcers or Charcot foot. When choosing diabetes wound care footwear for use by your patients, one of the important features to look for is removable insoles. These will provide you with the ability to customize pressure redistribution to suit the circumstances of a wide variety of patients. It is important to note that, since gait patterns differ among individuals, the at risk places will vary across the soles of the foot. As a result, you can analyze the gait pattern of each patient to understand their most vulnerable areas. You can then modify the removable insoles accordingly. A good diabetes wound care shoe will also offer substantial cushioning to mitigate the pressure of the patient's body weight. It will also offer straps and other features that will enable it to accommodate dressings without putting pressure on them. -
Braces and Supports221 Products
At Dunbar Medical, we can offer you a comprehensive selection of orthopedic braces and supports. Orthopedic braces and supports provide protection for injured joints or soft tissues. They will also help to realign and correct the relative positions of bones and/or soft tissues (ligaments, tendons, muscles, etc) during the recovery period. This ensures a complete return to full health and normal use of the injured body part. In general, braces can be classified based on their fit, purpose and the body part for which they are designed. Where fit is concerned, a brace may be either off the shelf or custom made. Off the shelf supports come in predetermined sizes (small, medium, etc), are ready to use right after purchase and are generally less expensive than custom made designs. The braces and supports on this site are all of the off the shelf variety. Custom made braces are designed for specific individuals. Before construction of the brace, a manufacturer representative or orthopedic technician will carry out a fitting procedure on the patient. Orthopedic braces and supports may be designed for prophylactic, functional or rehabilitative purposes. Prophylactic braces are designed to prevent injury and so are used primarily by healthy individuals. Rehabilitative braces are designed for use following a surgical procedure and will immobilize the injured body part to promote proper healing. Functional supports provide support and protection for existing injuries. Finally, braces and supports are each designed for a specific body part such as the knee, elbow, ankle, wrist, back, shoulder, etc. The bone and soft tissue structures in each area of the body are very different and the braces and supports for each area need to be designed to address the support and stabilization needs of each specific body part. Pregnant women also experience specific stresses in the hips and pelvic area, and maternity braces and supports are designed to address the specific needs that may arise during maternity.
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Waterproof Protectors4 Products
Waterproof protectors enhance your patients' quality of life by enabling them to bathe, shower and swim without having to worry about the risk of infection. Cast covers will protect their casts, bandages and wounds. Patients who have an ostomy (a surgical opening to facilitate discharge of bodily waste) will also benefit from these protectors. Other patients wearing PICC lines or prosthetic limbs will also benefit from them. The protectors generally employ vacuum seals to keep the target area free from infection. Waterproof protectors are also useful to those undergoing hydrotherapy right after surgery. For these individuals, the protectors will keep their surgical wounds free from infection and promote the chances of a full recovery. -
Incontinence1 Product
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Hand & Foot Care46 Products
Our selection of hand & foot care products will help your patients by speeding their recovery from foot conditions ranging from bunions, heel pain, metatarsalgia and plantar fasciitis. We also offer insoles that combat the effects of fallen arches and related conditions. In addition, this section also offers cold feet socks and gloves to fight the symptoms of conditions such as circulation problems, raynauds and diabetes. This category also includes diabetic socks that are non binding and non elasticized to promote blood circulation through the foot. In so doing, these socks mitigate the risk of commonly encountered diabetic complications such as neuropathy or ulcers. -
Back Rests3 Products
Back Rests will help to prevent neck and back pain by maintaining proper curvature of the spine. They are also known as lumbar supports. Some back rests are built into chairs, while other come in the form of pillows or cushions that will provide additional support for the back during long periods of sitting. Poorly designed seating is one of the main causes of lower back pain that can lead to the need for a lumbar support. Other causes of the problem include poor posture, improper lifting technique and obesity. In choosing a lumbar support, the first priority should be to ensure that it matches the chair with which the patient is going to use it. Before buying, the patient should ideally spend at least 15-30 minutes testing the support with the chair he or she intends to use, to see whether it provides pain relief. The best back rests are adjustable and the patient can carry them from home to the car to the office while continuing to benefit from superior support and freedom from back pain.
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Wellness & Healthy Living3 Products
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Respirator Mask2 Products
A respirator mask is a device that protects the wearer from hazardous fumes, gases and vapors. It will also provide protection from particulate matter such as dust and airborne mico-organisms. Generally speaking, there are two types of respirator - air purifying and air supplied. The former produces breathable air by filtering the contaminants from the atmosphere around the user. The latter provides a supply of air that is separate from the contaminated atmosphere. In this section, we present air purifying respirator masks of the single use, disposable type. To protect the wearer from hazardous atmospheres, respirators need a harnessing mechanism to hold the masks to the wearer's head and create an airtight fit against his or her skin. Some use loops that go around the ears while other use loops that go around the back of the head. Another important classification of respirator masks is between those that only cover the bottom of the face and those that provide full face coverage. The former are suitable only when the surrounding atmosphere does not pose a threat to the eyes or to the exposed part of the face. The respirators in this section are all of the half-face type. The respirator masks included in this section can be used mainly for protection from non oil particulate matter including both dusts and biological pathogens. They do not provide protection from gases or fumes. Users requiring protection from gases and vapors will need a respirator with a more efficient filtering mechanism. The particulate matter against which these respirators will provide protection can generally be as small as 0.3 microns in size. This is approximately the size of a grain of sodium chloride (salt).
