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Thank you for Visiting Us at The OT Show 2015

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We were overwhelmed with the amount of positive feedback we received from everyone who visited our stand at The OT Show 2015.

As we approach our 50th year as a company, we understand that Dycem Non-Slip products have become somewhat of a staple in the ‘Occupational Therapists’ Tool Kit’ and for this we would like to express our sincerest gratitude for your support over the last half a century – we couldn’t have done it without you!

Pink and Lime Dycem comp
Pink and Lime Dycem Non-Slip competition

During the OT Show, we ran a competition from our stand. Correctly guess the number of sweets in the jar pictured above to win a bundle of Dycem Non-Slip goodies, in pink and lime green!

We received well over 100 entries and we can now reveal that there were in fact 195 sweeties in the jar.

We would like to congratulate Naomi Harrison from Derby on winning this competition with her guess of 194. She was over-the-moon with her prize and had this to say about winning,

“Amazing. I was happy to get the goodie bags from you at the show, but I’m really pleased to have won. I love Dycem.”

Runners up: 

Our next two closes guesses came from Sonia Duthie in Bedfordshire and Helen McKenna from Surrey.
Helen had this to say about her win,

“What a lovely surprise. I’m looking forward to receiving my goodies.”

And Sonia was equally pleased with her prizes,

“I’m thrilled. I’ve never won anything like this before and it’s lovely, thank you very much,” she said.

Congratulations to our winners, thank you to all who entered and visited our stand at the OT Show.

Thanks for Visiting us at COT 2015 Conference and Exhibition

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The Non-Slip team would like to thank everyone who came to visit us at the Cot 2015 Conference and Exhibition (which ran from 30th June-2nd July).

We had a great show- despite the heatwave- in the wonderfully air-conditioned Brighton centre, on Brighton’s lively sea front.

We gave away stacks of goodie bags with our ‘Keep Calm I’m an Occupational Therapist’ Dycem coaster samples- which are always a huge hit with the OT’s. We also spread the word, far and wide, about Dycem Non-Slip’s therapeutic applications.

We would like to thank our resident expert, Jen Cave-Ayland, for helping us out during the exhibition. She is an Occupational Therapist and was only too happy to help with any OT-related questions posed to us from the delegates.

COT 2015
COT 2015

Once again, we ran our ‘How do You Use Dycem?’ competition, where we collected responses from attendees on their best reviews and new uses for Dycem.

Some of the answers included, using Dycem to hold arms still during Mirror Box Therapy exercises and using Dycem reel material for scar tissue massage.

Watch this space to find out who won, as we’ll be announcing the winner soon.

We look forward to seeing you at COT 2016, which will be held in Harrogate.

Rehacare 2015

Rehacare logo
Rehacare 2015

The Non-Slip team will also be heading to Dusseldorf in October to exhibit at the Rehacare 2015 Conference.

We hope to see you there!

And if you are an Occupational Therapist who attended COT 2015, we’d love to hear your thoughts on how the show went for you. Please leave us a comment below.

New Super Grip Comfort Tape for Built-Up Grip

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We have launched a new range of multi-purpose comfort tapes which create a superior built-up grip.

The super grip comfort tapes feature unique grip properties, a thick cushioned surface and are ideal for wrapping around utensils and mobility equipment handles.

This new range of ‘Super Grip’ tape comes in red, blue and black and has numerous applications for use. It can be cut to any size and applied onto surfaces where a comfortable and stabilized grip is required. For example, the tape can be wrapped around the handles of crutches, walkers and other types of mobility equipment, to increase surface friction and prevent rubbing and chaffing against the skin.

Eva Paraskevaides from Dycem said;

“The new super grip tapes have been developed to provide a cushioned non-slip, built-up grip. The tapes can be easily cut to size to provide an easy, comfortable grip solution for mobility equipment. The grips are also super absorbent and have an extra-long life which makes them ideal for use on items such as crutch handles where continued pressure from the hands is applied to the surface”.

Dycem’s non-slip products are multi-purpose, long-lasting, easy-to-clean and non-toxic. Their forty-nine-year heritage makes Dycem a valued and trusted brand amongst healthcare professionals, occupational therapists, physical therapists and consumers alike.

Blue Super Grip Tape
Blue Super Grip tape for built-up grip

View the Super Grip Tape range in the Dycem Shop here

If you would like to talk find out more about the full Dycem product range please contact nonslip@dycem.com

How Occupational Therapists Use Dycem – AOTA 2015 Competition Winner Announced!

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Dycem bundle prize winner
Here is our winner Heidi with her Dycem Non-Slip prize bundle

At the American Occupational Therapy Association’s annual Conference this year, our roving reporter asked the Occupational Therapists how they use Dycem to make their day-to-day jobs easier.

We collected all of their responses using a video camera and voice recorder and them into a competition.
The prize up for grabs was $200 of Dycem Non-Slip products (in the colour of their choice) and an iPad mini!

We got lots of responses from many enthusiastic OT’s and health professionals and gathered them together into a video, which you can see here;

We then selected a winner at random, Heidi Carpenter, and she chose to receive her Dycem Non-Slip prize in Lime Green.
Here is what she had to say about winning;

“I am so thrilled. I think Dycem is such an awesome product to use in therapy. Thank you so much.”

Congratulations to Heidi!

For you chance to win, look out for the Dycem Non-Slip stand at the next AOTA conference which will be held in Chicago next year.

‘How do you Use Dycem?’ Naidex 2015 Competition Winner Announced!

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Christina prizes
Here is our winner, Christina with her prizes

At the Naidex National Conference this year, we asked attendees how they use Dycem Non-Slip to make their lives easier.

We gathered together all of their responses using a voice recorder or video camera (if they were feeling brave) and entered them into a competition.

The prize up for grabs was £100 worth of Dycem Non-Slip products (in the colour of their choice) and an Ipad Mini!

We had lots of entries and found lots of interesting uses for Dycem Non-Slip, including using the reel material to secure spools on a knitting loom, to simple things like using Dycem under a set top box, to keep it from falling off the top of the telly.

Our lucky winner, Christina Theobald, was selected at random and chose to receive her Dycem prize range in silver. Here is what she had to say about winning;

“I am absolutely delighted and surprised to have won. I’d forgotten I’d entered a competition because I was busy being nervous about being filmed. The Dycem will come in handy, as I like to demonstrate it to people and I like the silver because it’s a non-clinical colour.”

Congratulations to Christina. To see Christina’s entry, plus a selection of others, check out this video of how Dycem Non-Slip can help people live independently;

For another chance to win a Dycem prize bundle, look out for our cameras and roving reporter at the COT Annual Exhibition and Conference at Brighton Centre, Brighton 30th June- 2nd July 2015.

Dycem’s Non-Slip mats and reels a ‘must have’ gadget for caregivers

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We are delighted to read that Dycem’s Non-Slip mats and reels have been branded as a ‘must have’ gadget by a family caregiver with over 30 years’ experience.  Writing for the over 50s membership organisation AARP, family caregiver Amy Goyer praised Dycem’s excellent non-slip properties for its myriad of uses;

  1. Stopping plates ‘sliding around’ with a Dycem Non-Slip mat which enabled her Mother to eat more easily following a stroke. Her Dycem ReelFather also uses it to stop his plate sliding around.
  2. Preventing the family dog from moving its bowl when eating or drinking, preventing spillages of food or water.
  3. Avoiding accidents as the Non-Slip properties of a Dycem mat also make dog bowl ‘virtually trip-proof’ as it ‘sticks’ to the tile.
  4. Make dining and cooking easier by cutting and wrapping Dycem’s Non-Slip material around utensil handles or placing underneath a chopping board to ‘keep it from slipping’:

I particularly recommend Dycem, a nonslip material used by many occupational and physical therapists. It comes in different sizes and colors; it even comes in rolls, so you can cut it to your preferred size, wrap it around utensil handles or use it under a cutting board to keep it from slipping.

Occupational Therapists Give Us 38 Uses for Dycem

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OT uses for Dycem
Occupational Therapy Uses for Dycem

Here at Dycem Non-Slip, we always look forward to exhibiting at the AOTA Conference and Expo as it’s a great chance to meet with Occupational Therapists who are enthusiastic about Dycem and how it helps them in their work.

At this year’s event in Nashville, we gathered together a list of uses for Dycem Non-Slip in an occupational therapy setting. Here are some of the best uses for Dycem we heard from the AOTA 2015 attendees;

Dycem in a Clinical Setting

  1. “I’m a hand therapist; I actually use it for scar tissue, to soften up the scars after tendons surgery.”
  2. “I use Dycem all the time on the grab bar, so that the people who don’t have the strength to hang on can use it to hang on to the grab bar to do transfers.”
  3. “I use Dycem all the time for my weight baring clients, to make sure that they don’t slip or fall and they NEVER do, it’s great. I also use it for standing.”
  4. “I use Dycem for when a patient does sit to stand from the wheelchair up to standing with the rolling walker and it supports their feet. Sometimes their feet slip because the person has suffered a stroke and I have to place their foot to stop it from slipping”.
  5. “I’ve used Dycem, just a roll of Dycem, in rehab a lot where you can cut pieces to size. It helps with keeping seating position in place or just for dynamic stuff like armchair positioning especially for neural rehab.”
  6. “To help a paediatric patient with fine motor co-ordination work.”
  7. “Dycem is one of the most versatile tools we have in therapy, we can use it to make grips, and we can use it in our day to day practice to help hold limbs and position feet where they’re supposed to be. It’s marvellous for seating as well as adapting other equipment.”
  8. “I use it to hold my interactive metronome down.”
  9. “I use the self-adhesive Dycem to line finger splints, so they don’t slip. Sometimes finger splints will migrate forward and when they need to wash the splint, they can also wash the Dycem.”
  10. “I use Dycem for rehabilitation, especially with my stroke patients with feeding. It builds grip, offers table support and it’s good for wheelchair adjustments, such as breaks. We’re not able to modify people’s chairs so we have to use other means to adapt.”
  11. “We use Dycem to keep the plates from sliding for clients with fine motor difficulties and for horse therapy (hippotherapy) we can use it on the horses to keep the clients body from sliding on saddles and keep them centred.”
  12. “I use Dycem on horse reigns for my clients when performing hippotherapy.

Dycem in the Home

  1. “I use Dycem for my exercise bike, to hold it in place.”
  2. “I actually I just moved into a new place and the toilet was wobbly, so I couldn’t put anything on to it. I took all of my things, my toiletries and I put them on a tray and I put a little sample size of Dycem under the tray and now it doesn’t slip off anymore.”
  3. “To hold a cutting board in place in the kitchen.”
  4. “I use it to hold the tower in place when I play Jenga.”
  5. “I use it to keep a sewing machine from sliding.”
  6. “We use it to keep someone’s remote from sliding off the table.”

Dycem On-the-Go

  1. “I use Dycem in wheelchairs to stop patients sliding out of their seats.”
  2. “I actually use it play racket ball and tennis with, I use regular grips that I buy at the store that don’t last as long or grip as well. I wrap it around like a regular grip tape, you just make a spiral out of it and it stays on forever and it actually has ‘tackier’ properties and I don’t have to wear a racket glove with it, so it’s great.”
  3. “I use Dycem with my Grandmother to provide a non-slip surface as she gets up and walks out of the restaurant.”
  4. “I give the small circle piece out for people to take out with them to restaurants to put under a plate when they eat.”

Dycem for Gaining Independence

  1. “I work in a facility where we use Dycem all the time for positioning and self-feeding and helping people to improve their independence.”
  2. “I use Dycem Bottle Openers for my arthritic hands, to open my medicine.”
  3. “We use Dycem for colour contrast as well as stabilisation with one-handed techniques like brushing teeth.”
  4. “I use Dycem Jar Openers with amputee patients or patients with arthritis. It helps them to open doors.”
  5. “I would use Dycem for people with low strength who want wash a pot or pan.”
  6. “You can use Dycem Mats to put paper on, so people who only have one hand can use it to write.”
  7. “I use Dycem to help with medication management, to stabilise the pill organiser.”
  8. “We use Dycem for everything. I use it primarily with spinal cord patients; it keeps their cell phones from sliding when they’re trying to type.”
  9. “My best use for Dycem is when I cut a piece into two- inch squares and I put it under the chair for a lady who when she stood up, the chair slid backwards. This was causing safety problem for her, but thanks to Dycem, the patient reduced her fall risk significantly.”

Dycem in Education/Learning

  1. “I have a student who likes to slide out of his chair, so I put the Dycem in his chair so he cannot slide and it works wonderfully.”
  2. “I use it for feeding to make sure bowls and plates don’t slip.
  3. “To stabilise papers on desk.”
  4. “I’m a student so I use Dycem in school. In eating competency class we had to use the Dycem to show how a patient can keep their plate on the table.”
  5. “I use the self-stick Dycem to put on the back of clipboards for students. So that they can move the clipboard wherever they’re going and it doesn’t slip.”

We would like to thank everyone we met at AOTA this year for their best uses for Dycem Non-Slip. And if you have any others to add to the list, please share with us your ideas below.