Neck pillow
A neck cushion (engl .: neck cushions ) is a specifically designed to support the neck, U-shaped and manufactured of the head cushion . It was protected as a utility model under the name of the neck pillow . Neck pillows are filled with foam , air or natural products such as millet chaff or cherry stones . They are used lying down, on longer trips, for example in public transport and cars, but also as support for swallowing difficulties or other clinical pictures. They are comparable to the grain pillows in their application.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Registration for utility model on June 4, 1997 (PDF; 548 kB), accessed on October 8, 2012
- ↑ Wiebke Herbst: Dysphagia: swallowing disorders after a stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) . Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2002, ISBN 3-8248-0363-1 , p. 36 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Friederike Kolster, Carola Habermann (Ed.): Ergotherapy in the field of neurology . Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-13-125622-5 , p. 544 ( limited preview in Google Book search).