By: crutchesintx
This is probably a stupid question but it’s my first time on crutches. How do I even walk with the crutches and only putting 10 to 20 percent on my cadged foot?
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Being in a cast for longer period does a marvelous job of healing the Achilles. I was lugging a splint/cast for six weeks. Once out of cast, never did I feel anything that made me feel concerned about...
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I am keeping it up as much as possible. Thank God for football, baseball, and golf on tv. But now the doc wants me to try PWB with a shoe on my cast. Trying to figure it out. I have tried to put a...
View ArticleBy: hillie
Crutches - Did your crutches come via online shopping, friend, etc? I would be concerned that some medical practitioner or physio has given you a pair of crutches and not told you how to use them - an...
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Hillie, I feel the cast was superior to the boot because I could not remove cast. It forced me to be a good patient and let the Achilles heal. Mine did! After six weeks I felt my injured Achilles was...
View ArticleBy: daves
Riptorn - How much ROM did you have when you ditched your boot? Like you, I went thru 6 weeks of splints and casts before graduating to boot. Going from NWB to PWB to FWB in my boot was a breeze and I...
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Hillie - I got my crutches when I went into the emergency room the day I ruptured my Achilles. Even though it is my first time on crutches, I knew how to use them. NWB on crutches is a breeze. But now...
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Rip - didn’t you once say that your AT was like shredded chicken, and that you thought your treatment was too conservative? This seems to be quite an about-turn - what went so right for you? In my view...
View ArticleBy: eastcoastrunner
crutchesintx– for PWB with the crutches you make a 3-point support by putting both crutches and your “bad” foot forward, taking most of the weight on the crutches, then bring your “good” foot forward...
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