Our Physiotherapist, Amelia Samuels, explains how to safely use crutches. To learn how to navigate stairs while on crutches, please go to • Using Crutches on Stairs
The physical therapist that was teaching me how to use these crutches wanted me to do left crutch with right foot and right crutch with the left foot, it was damned exhausting trying to keep track of what crutch and foot was next. Finally after I got frustrated with her, she got frustrated with me and told me to walk with the crutches however I was comfortable, I instinctively started doing the both crutches forward followed by one foot at a time like in this video. Unlike many people I no longer really have a good leg or a bad leg, they're both very close to the same. I've since been discharged from the hospital and I'm using a two wheeled walker in the house and a four wheeled Rollator type walker for exercise walks outside. I'm not sure if I want to continue trying to use the forearm crutches, I'll discuss that with my in home therapist once they start coming to see me. I've been told by that therapist who was teaching me the crutches and other folks who just watch me walk that I'm probably ready to walk unassisted if I could only build my confidence enough to not panic when I try. The therapist introduced the forearm crutches as a potential transitional tool to go from walker to unassisted, but like I said I'm not sure I like the forearm crutches or if I would prefer one or two regular canes instead.
I can't believe I never found this before, Ive just started using those specific crutches (Ive had them for a month) and thankful that I found this video
I can’t use them. Feel like I’m going to fall over. Have already lost my balance twice and had to save myself using my bad foot. Also haven’t got much upper body strength after COVID . I’m just attempting to walk on a shoe given to me that elevates my toes off the floor and hope I’m not making it worse
my crutches snapped in half recently as a was walking in public it was the forearm crutches I swing walk as I use my crutches as i move quicker that way i was born with spina bifida i fell forward and as i got up one forearm crutch had snapped in half and these damn things are metal not wood..
My physiotherapist told me the same thing as the video but I’m a failure and failed to follow his instructions and it seems like he has given up on crutches with me as well we will try something else
How do you stop your uninjured leg from cramping up and getting super sore when you're putting all your weight on it? I've just started using crutches because of a calf strain and I'm terrified of having both legs out of commission!
Cr!pple is a word where the usage is questionable. It has been used against people with lowered mobility as an insult (Ugly by Robert Hoge). I am not trying to be mean, I just want to inform you. Being disabled isn’t a bad thing, just another way to live. It isn’t a “miracle” when disabled people walk, ambulatory wheelchair users exist
