The rehabilitation industry has long existed, but the merchants do not pay attention to it, the market has a walker are very early before the bracket of the old products, these bracket class walker, not only does not have the effect of assisting, and not the slightest effect of rehabilitation, and only the effect of the support is still need to rely on the patient's hands to support the entire body weight to move forward. Imagine, a normal man can only use both hands to support the entire body weight for a short period of time, not to mention the situation of the elderly stroke patients, the use of such a stent-type walker will only make more stroke elderly more reluctant to walk, greatly reducing the enthusiasm for rehabilitation, resulting in rehabilitation difficulties!
Stent-type walkers
Is a foreign electrified walker really as good as it seems?
There are indeed more modern walkers abroad, such as electric walkers (such as Honda's electric walker), although such walkers have a booster effect, but the booster effect is weak, and it is not as effortless as one might think. The product itself is heavy, weighing 2.7 kilograms, which adds to the load, and it is cumbersome to put on, requiring help from others. It needs to be recharged every day, and can only be used for 1 hour on a single charge, and when there is no power, it does not help and becomes a burden! Most importantly, the price is expensive! Comparable to about 150,000 yuan so expensive Walking aids, that is, you can make through the support of the device, so that the legs and feet of the elderly patients are not convenient legs and feet are not flexible and even lost the ability to walk people can take care of themselves, and normal people as out for a walk.
Walking aid use of technology refers to the mobility, amblyopia, blindness, the elderly and disabled, the use of walking aids to assist the human body to support the weight, maintain balance, exercise walking, in order to protect the patient's safety under the circumstances to get effective rehabilitation exercise equipment. The toolkit says pretty much the same, but these sayings I myself feel tongue-twisting, every time I read have to brainstorm half a day, we are still simply in accordance with the role of the understanding of the next.
In the face of these mobility aids, how should we go about choosing? After reading this article I hope to help you
Functions and indicationsMain functions:
(1) Maintaining balance : such as the elderly, non-central disorders of lower limb weakness, lower limb spasticity poor forward extension, center of gravity can not be balanced by shifting the center of gravity and other obstacles, but not much for the balance of patients with high-grade strokes, multiple cerebral infarcts disorder.
(2) Supporting weight : After hemiplegia and paraplegia, when the patients have weakened muscle strength or the weakness of both lower limbs can't support their weight or can't bear weight because of the joint pain, the walker can play an alternative role, and some books say that it's not suitable for hemiplegia, which means that the ordinary frame walker is not suitable for hemiplegia.
(3) Walking aids: walking canes and walking sticks are often used, and because of the need to support the body, walking aids are safer than the above aids to assist walking, so if you see a walking aid in the neighborhood, you must slow down and walk slowly.
(4) Rehabilitation training: homework training and home rehabilitation training often used in the practical aids for reference only