Complex and very simple at the same time, that’s the best way to describe the HelpSoq. It therefore took a few years before the first prototype (picture left) was on the table. At that moment, anyone who saw how the first compression stocking was folded onto the ring immediately thought: ‘never seen this device before, but it must have been around for years’.
You often encounter the combination of complexity and natural simplicity. Your computer’s mouse has that, your cell phone. Simple, sleek look, but impossible to copy them. Good designs immediately look very accessible. The HelpSoq also takes a nice step in that direction. This became apparent during the first test moments, in which nurses prepared a compression stocking on the HelpSoq without too much explanation.
The caregivers who put the heaviest stockings around their clients’ legs every morning also seize the machine with their sleeves rolled up. But there’s no need for that. Because the HelpSoq does not require any strength, at most the routine self-evidence of putting on the stocking. The lazier your approach, the better it works.
Most caregivers immediately see that it is no more complicated than the routine with which the girl at the bakery cuts the bread: stocking on – wait ten seconds – ring off. And once with the ring to the patient’s foot, you can’t go wrong. After three tries you feel like an expert. And the HelpSoq has saved you from the whole struggle forever.