There is a high prevalence of lower back pain among care givers of the nursing home in Japan. The use of mechanical lifts has been frequently recommended as an assistive device for lifting or transferring care receivers. However, they increase time for use of the lift compare with manual methods. We think that one of the reasons of the time increase is the time for seating sling. To decrease the seating time, we developed a sling that was seated with a mild posture change of the care receivers. Using a dummy doll, we compared seating time and degree of burden score in the developed sling with the commercially available sling. The seating time in the developed sling was significantly shorter than that of the commercially available sling. The degree of burden score was the same level as the commercially available sling.
