At Salvador Navarro, clinical and hospital equipment specialists, we manufacture a wide variety of aluminium folding examination couches and couch trolleys.
Examination couches are an indispensable instrument
In aesthetic treatments, they are the most practical option for performing massages, whether for therapy or wellbeing. Most massages and aesthetic therapies require the patient to lie on a folding aluminium examination couch, as it will be your primary working tool. In medical treatments, examination couches are essential for attending to patients in a professional manner.
Choosing the right couch for your centre, hospital or clinic is very important, so finding the right one will make all the difference. But which examination couch do you actually need? Here are the key factors to help you decide.
First, we need to consider where we will be using the couch — that is, whether we will need to move it from place to place.
Folding examination couches will always be more convenient to store and transport, especially for specialists who work from home or need to travel to patients’ homes with their couch. In addition, folding couches can usually be adjusted to suit the height of each patient, which is very useful when working with different types of patients.
Another thing to consider is whether the couch should have a reclining backrest, so that the patient can be helped to sit up. This is a very important feature, since the price difference between a model with and without a reclining backrest is usually small, yet the difference in usability is far greater — a couch with a reclining backrest gives you more options for positioning the patient comfortably.
Aluminium folding examination couches are very convenient because they are extremely light, as aluminium is a very lightweight material. This advantage, combined with the foldable design, makes aluminium folding couches a highly effective working tool. There are also wooden couches that offer excellent quality due to their great rigidity, but they will always be heavier than aluminium ones. A wooden couch typically weighs around 16 kg, whereas an aluminium one weighs just approximately 10 kg.
At Salvador Navarro, we manufacture both types of examination couches, and we even carry reclining models that are particularly effective for reflexology or aesthetic treatments. In these cases, opting for this type of couch is more practical and useful, as they can be adjusted to suit the kind of work being carried out.
Examination couches are perfect tools for providing comfort and wellbeing to patients. Today they are extremely useful items for both medical and aesthetic treatments. The couch is always the essential ally for physiotherapists, chiromassage practitioners and osteopathy specialists, among others. Aluminium folding examination couches are suitable for both professional and personal use.
There are also mixed folding couches, which feature height-adjustable aluminium and wooden legs. This type of portable couch offers great advantages as it is very lightweight and is ideal for physiotherapy treatments, as recommended by many experts.
Fixed-height folding couches are characterised by a fixed height, normally around 75 cm. When purchasing a fixed folding couch, the height is a key consideration, as it must be suited to the professional who will be working at it.
Finally, there are ergonomic couches, which are synonymous with comfort. These couches are designed to adapt to the patient, rather than the other way around. They are undoubtedly an ideal type of couch for aesthetic treatments if you are looking for spa couches, or for professional treatments if you are looking for chiromassage couches.
At Salvador Navarro in Rivas, we stock the best brands. We work with OrlaEC, a Spanish manufacturer of clinical furniture and hospital equipment.