At Centrobed, our aim is to help our clients experience improvements in sleep, comfort, quality of life and independence.
With this in mind, we created our bespoke range of beds.
Our aim for our customers is to improve posture by allowing the individual to move all parts of their body independently.
This gives them the ability to move into the most comfortable position for a restful night’s sleep.
Our turning beds are suited to clients who suffer from a variety of conditions. These vary from strokes, DMD to MS and Motor Neurone Disease, specifically the Arctic.
The Arctic is a unique product that has been specifically designed to enable individual leg movements to complement the turning functions.
This means means you could have your right knee elevated and turn towards your left-hand side, alternating pressure for ultimate comfort while asleep.
The Arctic comes with all the standard features expected such as profiling, Hi/Lo, and compatibility for environmental control.
Clients also enjoy the benefits of independent leg movements and the ability to programme and automatically turn through the day and night.
The Arctic was designed for comfort and to accommodate the most complex of needs.
This product helps clients to reposition themselves without the need for assistance of care givers, empowering independence by a simple push of a button.
About MND
Motor Neurone disease (MND) is a rare condition that affects approximately 2 in 100,000 people in the UK.
Over time, this life-limiting disease irreparably damages parts of the nervous system, leading to increased muscle weakness and a reduction in mass and mobility.
In addition to other symptoms such as cramps and twitches, weight loss and difficulty in controlling emotions.
Motor neurone brain cells are responsible for muscle control throughout the body, impacting walking, speaking, swallowing and breathing.
As the condition progresses, these actions become increasingly more difficult people for people with MND.
Over time, these individuals become increasingly reliant on family or caregivers as well as assistive technology to help perform these functions.
Over the years, technology has evolved, empowering people with MND and other conditions to live more independently and have more full lives.
The Arctic, along with our other bespoke turning beds, is designed to assist and relieve clients with limited mobility.
Many stroke survivors suffer from a significant loss in movement, typically in one side of the body, similarly to MND.
Stroke
Our aim is to provide these individuals with postural support, rather than having to rely on caregivers.
The recovery time from a stroke can range from a few weeks to years, and having the correct assistive technology can help aid the recovery time.
The lesser movement ability that someone has, the higher risk they are for pressure care issues caused by immobility.
This can exacerbate everyday issues like the common cold or a chest infection which can in some cases lead to further complications.
To combat this, caregivers are required to regimentally move patients to redistribute pressure throughout the day and night.
In December 2019, former rugby player Rob Burrow was diagnosed with MND, changing not only his life but also the lives of his family.
Since October 2020, Rob has been using our Arctic turning bed to help ease the strain that his condition has put onto both him and his family.
In the intervening years, Rob has found that he is able to sleep easier, helping to reduce the struggle for his loving wife Lindsey, too.
Rob told us:
“The Arctic bed has been my saving grace.
“The bed does everything I need for a good night’s sleep, legs raised so I don’t slip down the bed, the head raised up to my comfort and the turn of the bed enabling me to turn in automatically.
“The bed is comfortable, and it has helped me out massively since I got it.”
Since the launch of the Arctic, we have been able to provide countless families and caregivers some relief by adding an automatic turning function that can be programmed for use during the day or night.
This reduces the risk of injury for caregivers through manual handling and reduces the cost, in some cases eliminating the cost for carers at night altogether.
Our story
Centrobed first started by promoting independence with products such as our Nile leg lifter and pillow lifters for clients who were struggling to either get into bed or manoeuvre while in bed.
A few years on, we found that there were so many different communities that could benefit from these products but were also in need of more!
Because of these communities, our products quickly evolved over time onto our bespoke range of beds.
Not only with turning for complex needs such as MND, but also for a variety of other different scenarios.
Our story
Centrobed first started by promoting independence with products such as our Nile leg lifter and pillow lifters for clients who were struggling to either get into bed or manoeuvre while in bed.
A few years on, we found that there were so many different communities that could benefit from these products but were also in need of more!
Because of these communities, our products quickly evolved over time onto our bespoke range of beds.
Not only with turning for complex needs such as MND, but also for a variety of other different scenarios.
The business was created in 1982 and has been passed down through the generations, bringing along our core beliefs and values, a legacy that puts people first and improves quality of life and independence for disabled people of all ages and disabilities.
To this day, Centrobed remains within the family who created it. Our products and the way we have developed them over time have been and will always be patient-led.
As a company, we look forward to serving our community and celebrating many more birthdays with many more generations to come, adapting to the changes in health and implementing new products to assist with a peaceful night’s sleep.
Find out more about Centrobed at centrobed.com
