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Adaptive Engineering Labs

The Pro-tech back provides support to promote good posture posture /pos·ture/ (pos´choor) the attitude of the body.pos´tural

pos·ture
n.
1. A position of the body or of body parts.

2.
 and user comfort. Pro-tech backs adjust easily with a single tool and offer multiple hardware mounting locations for adjustment and to accommodate growth. Headrest and lateral supports The right of a landowner to have his or her property naturally upheld by the adjoining land or the soil beneath.

The adjoining owner has the duty not to alter the land, such as by lowering it, so as to cause the support to be weakened or removed.
 aro also offered as options. The back is available in both standard and deep contour contour or contour line, line on a topographic map connecting points of equal elevation above or below mean sea level. It is thus a kind of isopleth, or line of equal quantity.  support.

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Title Annotation:Product News; Pro-tech back from Adaptive Engineering Labs helps prevent pressure sores
Publication:Physical Therapy
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2003
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