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OC Grab Bars – The Best Safety Bar Installer In Town

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Grab Bars in showerOC Grab Bars was established in 2005 by Joey Bolohan. The main objective of the company is to provide quality service to their customers with honesty, integrity and respect. The owner began this company when there was a great demand for grab bars in Orange County. He noticed that the elder population is growing remarkably throughout the state including the Orange County. The products which OC Grab Bar company can install are- shower chairs, toilet safety bars, grab bars, hand held showerheads and toilets etc. All the products of the company are certified by ADA and provide 100% guarantee for life.

If you are planning to install grab bars at your home to avoid injuries, then the best place to approach is OC Grab Bars. It not only provides safety to your home, but also maintains a fashionable and awesome look.

The bathroom is the area which is mostly prone to accidents. To avoid these accidents OC Grab Bars are providing remedies to users to maintain their balance in bathrooms. These bars are available in different colors and sizes and user have a variety to choose from as per their interiors. As you grow old, the chances to fall down inside the bathroom increase and these incidents start happening very often. In a year, approx. 2,340,000 elders fall down in bathroom due to slipping or falling and get treated in the emergency room. Out of these adults, one third (aged 65 and older) were treated with fractures due to falling in the bathroom. Whereas rest of them (almost 38% of them, aged 85 and more) were hospitalized due to slipping in the bathrooms.

You can avoid your trip to the emergency room to get treatment due to falling in the bathroom. If at least 30% of the people (who had suffered a hip fracture sometimes) will install grab bars in their bathroom, they will definitely decrease the accident cases in the bathrooms. You can install them in various areas at your home according to your need, such as near the toilet, in the garage, in the shower, in the entryway to your home etc. You can install them in any direction as per your comfort level, like diagonally, horizontally or vertically.

The horizontal grab bars will provide you the ability to push upward or reach in from the entry. The horizontal bars are most commonly used during sitting in a shower chair because they are found to be a little easier to push down. The diagonal bars are usually placed at a slight angle to help the users with weak and painful arms or wrist.

Why grab bars should be a standard in Homes

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Grab BarsDid you know that the bathroom is the most dangerous place in your home? Approximately 235,000 people each year over 15 years of age fall and injure themselves in their own home bathroom with more than 14% of those injuries occurring while getting and off of the toilet.

Bathroom injuries increase with age however, shower and tub injuries are most common among 15 to 24 year old people. Bathroom injuries that occur while exiting the bathtub add up to more than two thirds of all emergency room visits.

These are a lot of injuries from visiting your bathroom; however, these injuries can be prevented and lessened if grab bars were a standard in all homes. Placing grab bars next to the toilet and inside the tub and shower area can prevent up to 50% of these accidents from occurring.

As we age, our response time is lessened and so isn’t our strength. Women’s bones are not as dense as men’s and these result in many fractured hips and concussions while slipping and falling in the bathroom. There are many times that when we are sick, have had surgery and are living alone people need assistance in getting on and off the toilet as well as in and out of the tub or shower enclosure.

With grab bars being a standard in all home’s a person living by themselves will be able to safely use their bathrooms and prevent a terrible fall which may occur in a broken bone or head trauma. We have all been taught that safety is number one in the bathroom due to the water and slippery conditions. If we have grab bars installed in tub and shower enclosures the injury rates would drop.

Every person will need assistance at least once in their life getting in and out of the bathroom. The installation of grab bars will help those who are living alone to be more self sufficient in a potentially embarrassing moment. If you are on new medication and feel dizzy, faint or if you have a leg in a cast the extra help from using a grab bar next to your toilet or tub and shower will provide you with added safety.

Using towel racks and sliding glass doors for support while in your bathroom will only lead to more injuries. With a properly installed durable grab bar you will have the support that is necessary to aid you when you need it the most in your bathroom.

Prevent a serious injury from happening to your family or loved one and have a bathroom grab bar installed in your home. Safety should come first when it comes to your family. It would be a terrible thing to come home from work to see a family member lying on the bathroom floor all day when the fall could have been prevented.