The court … will enter as a remedy a permanent injunction prohibiting certain overly restrictive restraints".
However, the reduction of belts should not result in an increase of other restrictive restraints (such as a chair with locked tray table) or psychoactive drug use.
Finally, we should add that the scope of our study was limited to the coercive measures that are used most often in the Netherlands, and that we did not evaluate the effects of other restrictive interventions such as physical restraint, continuous observation, or time-out.
As these head restraints do not eliminate all movements, even more restrictive head restraints exist that fix the skull completely [ 3].
These restrictive head restraints, however, are very uncomfortable and therefore they are not used frequently.
According to rules set by CMS, hospital staff may restrain patients only when medically necessary and should use the least restrictive form of restraint possible.
The overuse of restraint and restrictive interventions is part of a totally outdated culture in health and care services but they are still being used too often in today's system.
After all, haven't we placed countless calls and emails, reached out to educator and politician alike, all in the hopes of raising awareness that schools need not employ restrictive practices such a restraint and seclusion?
Participants also argued against such family restraint as unnecessarily restrictive.
