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    Bathroom Safety After Surgery

    If your movement is limited during recovery, ask a family member or friend to help prepare your bathroom. This helps make it safer and more comfortable while you heal. Use the tips below as a guide. Know that some equipment you’ll need won’t be ordered until you’re ready to go home.

    Bathroom safety tips

    Try the following tips for staying safe:

    • Prevent slips and falls by using nonslip bathmats on your bathroom floor and in your tub or shower.

    • Watch out for hazards, such as wet floors.

    • Use grab bars in your shower or tub for support as you get in and out. Also have them by your toilet.

    • Install a hand-held shower hose.

    • Keep the soap and shampoo within reach

    • Sit on a bath bench or shower chair while you bathe.

    • Use a long-handled sponge to wash hard-to-reach areas.

    • If you had surgery that limits bending, use a commode chair or elevated toilet seat to raise the height of your toilet.

    • Talk with your occupational therapist if you need more instructions in using bath aids.

    Bathroom with safety equipment.

    Online Medical Reviewer: Mahammad Juber MD
    Online Medical Reviewer: Marianne Fraser MSN RN
    Online Medical Reviewer: Raymond Turley Jr PA-C
    Date Last Reviewed: 9/1/2023
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    Southern New Mexico
    Surgery Center

    2301 Indian Wells Rd. Suite B
    Alamogordo, NM 88310
    www.snmsc.org

    Phone: 575.437.0890
    Fax: 575.437.0905
    Email: info@snmsc.org

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