You can choose a handle that makes you feel comfortable. You can choose some spongy handles or handles that fit the shape of your hand according to your personal preference. If you have injured your hand or fingers, you can choose a handle that suits you according to what your doctor and therapist have described. If your hand or fingers are painful, you are using a handle that is not right for your hand, and good pharmacists recommend that you try different handles before buying.
If you're going to use crutches, it's important to adjust the height to suit you. This is because if the crutches are too long they will make it difficult to pick them up and move around, and if they are too short they will make it easy for you to lose your balance.
Keep your arm down vertically, bend your elbow at 30 degrees, and touch your wrist to the top of the crutch, which is the right height for you.
The flexible rubber on the bottom of the cane will help it absorb the ground when walking, which means it will increase friction on most different surfaces. Make sure that the rubber is flexible and that the teeth pattern is still clear. If the tread appears to have worn away it will need to be replaced with a new head, or at least every five years.
1. For those who are not too old and are mobile, try not to use crutches.
This psychological must not, there are two unfavorable:
The first unfavorable from the psychological: with a cane, there is a dependence. Gradually, the vitality of life is less active, and old age comes quickly instead.
The second disadvantage comes from the physical: I know an old man, 75 years old before without crutches, once in the road by his own bicycle hit, the right leg began to discomfort. His daughter then bought crutches for him. So he leaned his weight on the crutches, his back gradually hunching to the side of the crutches, and soon became a stooped old man.
The mountain longevity of the elderly, due to constant exercise, old age, there are few crutches. In fact, crutches and medication learning, are valuable in a word of caution. Can not crutches on not crutches; can not eat or eat less medicine, do not eat or eat less, the best policy.
2, the quality of crutches must be good, the use of crack prevention.
Crutches are dominated by the hand, do not use other parts of the body to support. The quality of crutches is worrying. Therefore, to ask more and more choices, to choose not easy to moisture is not easy to crack the kind.
Smaller recommended a few good crutches for you to choose.
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