Wool Hip Protectors

Posted Le 27 août 2015

Hi everyone,



Does anyone know of any research done using sheep’s wool as the padding for hip protectors? This question came in to me recently but it is not my area of knowledge and I'd appreciate any thoughts/ comments from those of you closer to this work. The woman noted that it is sometimes hard to convince the older adult to wear the traditional style of protectors with the harder pads, as these can be uncomfortable. In addition, she noted that the traditional hip protectors tend to rotate so they are not resting on the boney prominese of the trochanter.



Any help is appreciated!



Sarah