Skil-Care Cotton Gait Belt with Metal Buckle (72-Inch / Pinstripe)
The Skil-Care Cotton Gait Belt with Metal Buckle (Model 252074) is an extended-length mobility aid engineered to facilitate safer transfers, walking assistance, and lifting routines. This configuration provides a generous 72-inch operational length — adding 12 inches of adjustable room compared to standard baseline belts — making it an essential asset for comfortably securing larger or bariatric individuals. Secured snugly around an individual's natural waistline over top of their clothing, this 2-inch wide cotton webbing strap serves as a robust mechanical anchor. By utilizing the belt's high-leverage grasping perimeter, physical therapists, nurses, and home care providers can guide uncoordinated transitions without pulling on limbs or clothing, reducing the incidence of falls and safeguarding staff from occupational back injuries.
Design & Functional Features
- Extended 72-Inch Bariatric Sizing: Engineered with a full 6-foot loop workspace. This added length easily accommodates larger waist sizes or extra layers of heavy clothing while leaving an ample, easy-to-thread strap tail.
- Heavy-Duty 2-Inch Cotton Webbing: Woven from thick, high-tensile cotton fibers that maintain unyielding structural integrity under full weight-bearing loads while remaining soft, flexible, and comfortable against attire.
- Aggressive Metal Locking Buckle: Outfitted with an industrial-grade metal slide clasp featuring a textured, serrated jaw pattern. When tension is applied, these teeth clamp firmly into the cotton fibers, ensuring a secure, zero-slip lock that will not loosen mid-lift.
- Professional Pinstripe Aesthetic: Styled with a clean, classic pinstripe pattern that looks professional in multi-individual clinical wards and offers immediate high visibility during busy ambulatory routines.
Product Specifications & Identification
Important Product Characteristics
- Total Freedom of Hand Placement: Designed with a traditional, handle-free perimeter, allowing healthcare providers to grip the heavy webbing tightly at any precise angle or position around the individual's core to adapt to real-time balance shifts.
- High-Temperature Commercial Laundering: Formulated to withstand rigorous infection-control routines. The entire cotton strap and metal buckle assembly can be placed in institutional washing machines and tumble dried at temperatures up to 180°F without losing structural strength.
- Application Notice: Always wrap the belt over top of a shirt, hospital gown, or sweater rather than directly against bare skin to completely eliminate the risk of friction pinching. Thread the tip cleanly through the serrated teeth, pull until completely snug and gap-free, and perform a manual tug test to verify the buckle is locked before assisting.
