The Primary Restraint Technique (PRT)® and Takedown with the Tripod Stand™
 
The Handle With Care story began in 1974 when a 21-year-old Bruce Chapman discovered the legendary Primary Restraint Technique (PRT)® on the locked psychiatric unit of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.  Over 25 years of research and development have made the PRT the most thoroughly engineered passive subduing hold and takedown in the industry.  It is now the only "passive holding" method in history to deserve the protection of the U.S. Patent Office.

The PRT The PRT is an easy to teach, orthopedically sound "skeletal lock" that offers unprecedented mechanical advantage without pain or injury.  It is a powerful standing restraint that communicates benign control so effectively that a takedown is usually unnecessary.  We also offer "non prone restraint" options that are based on the PRT, including techniques for smaller children and children with orthopedic and physical conditions (including pregnancy) that would preclude any facedown restraint method.  The PRT can also be used as a single person escort.

A True Story
When Texas Youth Commission was evaluating training programs, they sent a delegation of three staff to another state to get a first hand look at how Handle With Care was working there.  They watched the training, spoke to the staff and spoke to some of the kids in treatment at the facility.  They were sold when the kids told them the PRT "was the best restraint technique" they had ever seen.  You can't fool a kid.