Common use of Physical Restraint Clause in Contracts

Physical Restraint. Physical restraint is any manual method that restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body, including hand or arm holding to escort an individual over his or her resistance to being escorted. Physical restraint does not include brief, limited, and isolated use of: physical guidance, positioning or prompting techniques that are used to redirect an individual or assist, support, or protect the individual during a functional therapeutic or physical exercise activity; response blocking and brief redirection used to interrupt an individual’s limbs or body without the use of force so that the occurrence of challenging behavior is prevented; holding an individual, without the use of force, to calm, or comfort, or hand-holding to escort an individual from one area to another; and response interruption used to interrupt an individual’s behavior, using Facility-approved techniques.