How to use canes, crutches and walkers after surgery

After surgery, you will likely need to use equipment to help your recovery or an assistive device to help you move. This 12-minute video shows how to safely walk, use stairs and stand with a cane, crutch or walker.

[@CaritaXoXo]

I’ve been on crutches for almost 4 months now (super bad ankle/leg break) and this is the best how to video I’ve come across. I couldn’t figure out going upstairs without a railing, thank you so much!

[@9652366]

Red dot crutches are totally awesome!!!!

[@geliahezekiel5526]

thank you for this video. much appreciated, now i understand it better. this was a big help for my upcoming exam. thank you very much for posting this.

[@m.taylor]

I had to figure so much of this on my own. At the hospital they just handed me the crutches and there were no instructions attached that I grew to despise crutches particularly with one leg non-weightbearing but now I am comfortable with them.

[@kaycee3788]

Thank you so much....This is a very helpful video. excellently demonstrated.

[@jessmend1239]

Very good instructions. Thanks.

[@portes89]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@vickiyounkin1057]

Very good tips thank you

[@michellesmith9365]

This is good to know! Thank you so much!

[@vickiyounkin1057]

Very good tips using after knee surgery

[@Parmesana]

thank you. This is very helpful.

[@hanakrisnandasuni5806]

my collage teacher sent us this ideo to get some lessons, this is very helpful. Thanks

[@maitreesquad6493]

Thank you so much, very helpful

[@nagarajany4745]

very very useful demonstratin

[@dr.shwetamestry6945]

thnx for dis video.. helpful for my practicals

[@allcoastoutpatienttherapy9823]

Helpful tips.

[@huseinalghazali8148]

Thank you so much

[@sierrachyenn8079]

I have had to use crutches on and off quite a bit due to a knee problem that up until recently, they had no idea what was. Never once have I saw or heard that your arms need to be straight. Your arm is supposed to be at a small bend. Or at least that's how my doctor's showed and my physical therapists as well.

[@elizabethpeterson1644]

I remembered using a walker going up on a curb that I went up forward. Even using on these steps towards a restaurant. The steps are small steps only 3. It was easy for me to do. I notice someone was parked in the handicap spot on the passenger side that I want to get out. My father did parked in a normal spot. I used my walker on the stairs going up. I did manage to go up.

[@NightCalls001]

Thanks! With a little practice I think I will get it! I have a sore knee, I am assuming I will use the crutchs the same way as shown for the foot?

[@rattananihao]

Thank you

[@aseelalkhatib263]

helpful , thank you .

[@haivahcolin8963]

Really helps

[@dr_davinci]

This video was so helpful , I was really confused on which cane to use and how to use them, thanks a lot now I can go and buy my mom a cane.

[@user-yu5hb2io9t]

This is very use ful..but i want know abt the gaits..
.2.point gait
3.point gait
4.point gait...

[@rjhhopewell41]

THANK YOU for showing the bad foot with a bandage on it.

[@christinebishop3440]

I have completed watching this video.

[@gowthamk3117]

Nice

[@namanfarishta3252]

Why are you using both crutchers in non wait bearing is unaffed and affected cutch should me used ??

[@sunnydayz9032]

I wish I’d seen this video couple of months ago!

[@Blade56762]

Those crutches in the demo seem to be uneven, the one on the lady's right (left as you look at it) is lower than the other one and both seem too low for this case.

[@haniyaiqbal4621]

why dose she have to shake when she's walking with the cane

[@dineshkhurana9565]

I am till time walking with walker. Now I am want to walking with cane. My question is that what are the requirements for me to walking with cane ?

[@chinnuhari1492]

Why u put stick on affected foot

[@fvaambush]

Shouldve shown how to adjust height for crutches. Axillary pads were way too low

[@karnitanewton7870]

Why you not showing how to go up and down the stairs without weight bearing

[@stephenmcdowell9210]

Iv got limb girdle muscular dystrophy and it's got to the point were I can't walk my left leg is really bad I need something that is high enough for me to lean on 'my back needs to be locked as well so these walkers won't work 'you need strength for all of these things what happens now ?

[@onyapidi5174]

COAL - Cane Opposite Affected Leg.

[@mariarobinson4619]

What about people with Parkinson’s?

[@comodice905]

Commander kane

[@frankmccoy2305]

Don't forget that you are putting weight on the cane instead of your bad foot/leg. That is not mentioned.

[@DorisKBondo-fi6so]

Walking with one foot

[@annajohnson3902]

Sheila bare

[@RajentraPrasad]

How to use single ankle crutch with damaged right leg

[@jermanibouler9643]

jai

[@dr.haripeethambaran2539]

few mistakes...but ok

[@FknNefFy]

WATCH OUT FOR WET SURFACES AND WET LEAVES!!

[@omas53]

broke my foot today.

[@mathhae2215]

Bb

[@isightcast7468]

Those crutches are too low, wrong.

[@devinachoudhary8821]

2:24 upstairs with railing, the lady put the walking cane and the sore foot beside each other?
I thought it was the opposite side!

[@dafttwat78]

I went from 50% weight bearing to none weight bearing in a boot after ORIF TI/ FIB . I just got on with it ditched the crutches no cane used , walking normally except for the boot . looks like you must come across some real wimps in your practice

[@denisekindon5167]

dafttwat78 I

[@ardvarkkkkk1]

dafttwat78
So, everyone's situation is the same as yours? You are just making yourself look stupid.

[@addyklisch6275]

Can’t you use a real patient

[@haniyaiqbal4621]

it's rubbish

[@garriecotton1659]

Haniya Iqb

[@haniyaiqbal4621]

Ol

[@jeffharder8706]

Too cheap to film a video about using a walker with stairs? Wow. FAIL!