Push down on the handgrips as you step up with your healthy leg, then bring the crutches up next. Check your balance before you continue to the next step. If there is a sturdy handrail available, place both crutches under one arm. Holding the rail with the opposite arm, step up with the healthy leg first and the crutches follow. To go downstairs non-weight-bearing with crutches, start at the edge of the step, keeping your hips beneath you.
Place crutches on the lower step, holding the injured leg out in front of you. Then, slowly lower yourself down to the next step. Check your balance before you continue. Make sure you bend at your hip and knee to prevent leaning forward, which could cause you to fall. If there is a sturdy handrail available, hold both crutches under one arm and use the handrail with the other arm. Hold your injured leg out in front of you, then place the crutches down on the lower step as you carefully lower yourself down.
When you are able to start putting weight on your injured leg, make sure you know how to walk with crutches partial weight-bearing. Skip to main content. How To Walk With Crutches Non-Weight-Bearing When you walk with crutches, it is important that you keep the crutches under your arms and close to your sides. How To Go Down Stairs With Crutches To go downstairs non-weight-bearing with crutches, start at the edge of the step, keeping your hips beneath you. Featured in this Video Medical services.
Foot and Ankle. Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap Total hip replacement rehabilitation: progression and restrictions. Clinical Orthopaedic Rehabilitation. Updated by: Linda J. Editorial team. Using crutches. While you are moving around with crutches: Let your hands carry your weight, not your armpits.
Look forward when you are walking, not down at your feet. Use a chair with armrests to make sitting and standing easier. Make sure your crutches have been adjusted to your height. The handles should be at hip level. Your elbows should be slightly bent when you hold the handles. Keep the tips of your crutches about 3 inches 7.
Rest your crutches upside down when you are not using them so that they do not fall down. Walking and Turning. When you walk using crutches, you will move your crutches forward ahead of your weak leg. Place your crutches about 1 foot 30 centimeters in front of you, slightly wider apart than your body.
Lean on the handles of your crutches and move your body forward. Use the crutches for support. Do not step forward on your weak leg. Finish the step by swinging your strong leg forward. Repeat steps 1 through 3 to move forward. Turn by pivoting on your strong leg, not your weak leg.
Options include: Non weight-bearing. This means keep your weak leg off the ground when you walk. Touch-down weight-bearing. You may touch the ground with your toes to help with balance. Do not bear weight on your weak leg. Partial weight-bearing.
Your provider will tell you how much weight you can put on the leg. Weight-bearing as tolerated. You may put more than half of your body weight on your weak leg as long as it is not painful. Sitting and Standing. To sit down: Back up to a chair, bed, or toilet until the seat touches the back of your legs. Move your weak leg forward, and balance on your strong leg. Hold both crutches in your hand on the same side as your weak leg. Using your free hand, grab the armrest, the seat of the chair, or the bed or toilet.
Slowly sit down.
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