Introducing our newest form, the Alpha Cradle® Frog Form™. Developed to reduce skin folds dramatically in a reproducible set-up that is comfortable for the patient. Two foam guides hold the patient’s legs comfortably wide apart, while a custom foam footrest gives the patient the support they need to hold the position. Developed to address the problem of gynecologic skin folds, at a teaching hospital in North Carolina, the Frog Form holds the patient’s legs apart while keeping the feet together. By pushing the foam clear of the region between the patients upper thighs, during the rising process of the foam, the medical professional has complete access to the gynecologic region, with no obstructions. Four triangular inserts are attached to the base board, allowing you to spread the thighs as needed, while keeping the feet together. At last, total comfort and security for your gynecologic patients, while eliminating skin folds. Order your Frog Form™ today and dramatically improve the comfort, reproducibility and treatment of your patients.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s our model, over six foot and three inches standing on the AC Side form just made for him. Durability? You bet. You can get in and out of a properly made Alpha Cradle^® form all day long without damaging the form or moving its sides out of position. Try that with your vac bag.

One of the most important questions you can ask, when determining what type of immobilization you will use on your patient, is will the form hold up during treatment. Ineffective vac bags are in at a lot of medical centers these days. They seem to save money. They are cheap, unless you count the thousands of dollars spent in initial investment and equipment. Unfortunately for your patient, they do not work. Vac bags and customized repositioning forms, Alpha Cradle^® forms, work on completely different principles. The cousin to the bean bag chair, (remember when it too was a fad?) works by pulling air out of the bag. This pulls the bag away from your patient.It is soft, easily bendable, does not make deep impressions of your patient’s anatomy, not easily indexed for lasers, and when they get the tiniest of holes in them, they are worthless. They are dirty, and just don’t work.

Alpha Cradle^® forms work by rising foam filling in the space between your patient and the form. When they are fabricated correctly, you have a deep mold of your patient in the desired set up position. Alpha Cradle® brand durable forms fit flat on your treatment couch. The inferior bags do not. And in today’s age of superbugs, I’d rather have a customized Alpha Cradle® form just for me, than a wiped off bag that many other patients, with who knows what, have been laying on. You wouldn’t put a loved one, a member of your own family in one of those used bags, so why put your patients in them? Alpha Cradle® forms offer superior immobilization AND repositioning. That’s repositioning each time your patient comes in for treatment. The cost savings from proper repositioning alone is worth the cost of these inexpensive forms. Keeping patient movement to a minimum is what these forms are all about. And with new technology, it seems like the patients have to hold still for you longer and longer. Go with the product that has proved itself time and again from leading protocols, to medical textbooks and encyclopedias.

Smithers Medical Products is proud to introduce a new tool to the arsenal when it comes to treating your decubitus patients, the Alpha Cradle Side Form. No two patients are alike, and this is even more true when trying to fix your patient in the decubitus position. The form consists of an extruded polystyrene base for maximum support. Four, different, cut to shape pieces of expanded polystyrene are used to create a shell for the patient. These include a back support, head rest, chest support piece and a unique arm block to give the lowered arm something to hold on to and the upper arm a support piece. Add two sets of our proprietary AC660, our largest sets of foam to date, and you have an extremely durable form that comfortably immobilizes your patient. Most importantly, this is the first tool that allows you to reposition your decubitus patient quickly, accurately and comfortably on a daily basis. For more information, click on the “How to Use” button above, then click on Videos, and finally click on the Alpha Cradle Side Form to see exactly how this works. More information will soon follow on this exciting new form.

Note the deep hand and forearm groove to hold the patient comfortably into position. This is something Vac bags, previously bean bag chairs,  cannot do adequately. Only these deeply impressioned, customized anatomical forms can be made to exactly fit your patient.

One of the biggest differences in Alpha Cradle forms and cheap vac bags is durability. This patient can climb in and out of his form without altering the form or damaging it. All of our extended forms are built with this rigidity to support your biggest patients getting in and out of the form daily, putting most of their weight on the form.