The Sonora-230 suits dermatology and aesthetic medicine clinics, minor surgery and injection rooms, wound and dressing clinics, and general examination rooms, where one chair serves both a seated clinician and a standing one. Its 560 mm low point lets many walk-in patients sit straight back, and the 900 mm top brings a reclined patient up for standing work.
Low, adjustable seating is about access, and the evidence is sobering. In a telephone survey of 256 US subspecialty practices, 22% said they could not accommodate a patient who uses a wheelchair, mostly because staff could not transfer him to the examination table (Lagu and colleagues, 2013). Only 9% used a height-adjustable table or a lift. Equipment alone did not close the gap in a survey of 399 patients at two Minnesota primary care clinics. Patients with disabilities were 27% less likely to be examined on a table, and the clinic with height-adjustable tables in every room did no better (Morris and colleagues, 2017). The Sonora-230's 560 mm low point eases sitting for ambulant patients, but it does not meet the US transfer height, and staff habits matter as much as the chair.
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