How to Adjust an Invacare Bed

If you’re considering an Invacare bed purchase, it is important to understand exactly what you are getting. Equally so, you must also know how to adjust an Invacare bed. This is important because Invacare beds are designed to bring the function of a hospital bed into a residential setting where it can provide therapeutic benefit to the user over the long-term. In other words, this is no traditional flat bed.

The most notable characteristic of these beds is the solid design that offers flexibility in sitting or sleeping position for the user by allowing the adjustment of the head and foot area of the sleep system. This function can provide relief to people who suffer from a long list of medical conditions that include: back pain, hypertension, poor circulation, acid reflux and other respiratory ailments, asthma, anxious leg syndrome and many more.

If you don’t know how an Invacare bed is adjusted, you can’t take full advantage of its benefits. But more importantly, you won’t understand how close in function these beds are to a host of alternate options offered by high quality retailers like Simply Rest that carry the Signature and Signature Select adjustable beds.

Here’s how to adjust an Invacare bed:

• Use the “Head Up” and “Head Down” buttons in the upper portion of the remote control to adjust the elevation of the bed’s head area.

• Use the bottom two buttons – “Foot Up” and “Foot Down” – to adjust the foot area’s elevation.

• Two middle keys control raising or lowering the entire sleep system.

• Some Invacare beds come are controlled by manual operation. In those cases, turn the left-hand crank in a clockwise direction to raise the bed and counterclockwise to lower it. The right-hand crank controls the foot section in the same manner and the center crank adjusts the entire bed.

  
  

The main difference between an Invacare bed and a quality-made adjustable bed – by the likes of Simply Rest for example – is price and appearance. Both beds function in much the same way – by remote control that adjusts the head and foot areas independently. But Invacare beds are significantly different from Simply Rest in cost and appearance – two very important factors when considering a sleep system for residential use.

Simply Rest is an online-based company without physical showrooms that does not engage in television advertising and other expensive marketing efforts. With less overhead to pay, Simply Rest is able to pass on significant savings to customers of its Signature and Signature Select models.

Simply Rest adjustable beds are also sleekly designed to fit aesthetically with home décor. In fact, Simply Rest adjustable beds will fit into existing bed frames so there is virtually no physical change at all to the bedroom’s surroundings. Invacare beds, on the other hand, are only slightly more attractive than their hospital counterparts.

Simply Rest Signature and Signature Select adjustable beds are made with durable materials and are supported with a 90-day in-home trial and 20-year warranty that clearly demonstrates the quality of these sleep systems. Also, importantly, Simply Rest beds offer consumers an affordable alternative option to hospital-like beds without the need to sacrifice style.