Guess you never had a bad knee or ankle and needed crutches. I found this to be excellent info. My friend gave me a pair of mobi's and now I know what they are all about. I just had surgery on my ankle.
Josh, I thought this was very interesting! I am 55 and have had five knee surgeries (including total replacement of each knee) and a broken ankle, in the last 14 years. I was never able to use crutches because I lacked the upper body strength. I had to use walkers, canes, and even a knee scooter during all those recoveries. I was only ever issued the standard aluminum hospital crutches. Your video makes me wonder if I would have had more success with the more advanced designs you show here, if they were even available back then. On another note, you are so right about the potential for shoulder damage from crutches. I had a coworker who seriously messed up his knee playing soccer (think, multiple ligament ruptures and torn meniscus, etc., etc.,) and had a huge surgery to repair it. He was on crutches for many months. He didn’t use them properly and ended up with a torn rotator cuff in one shoulder, and had to have another big surgery. No fun at all. I’m glad to see you looking well.
Just a guy with a broken ankle looking for better crutch options. I was mesmerized by your agility and balance. Thanks for the great and helpful video!
Hi my name is Kathy and I use the Mobilegs Ultra. I am 100% disabled. These crutches are truly amazing. I have been using them for about 8 years now and boy can I really move out. Love the 2 adjustable positions for how long your torso is and thru the waist. The grips for your hands are soooo comfortable, the spring, swivel comforter under the armpits baskets are so comfortable and really move with you. The feet have a rocker/roll thru your walk instead of stripping with old metal crutches. Moblilegs are truly the best!!! For short term, long term or possibly for the rest of my life. Thank you Moblilegs, Kathy :-)
Yeah the USA is like the only developed nation where everyone for some reason uses forearm crutches for short term use. You never see them in, say, Europe.
Fun crutch side effect: my grandmother has been using forearm crutches for a good few years now. She walks a lot and often stops to talk to the neighbours, so she spends a lot of time outside and in the sun. She is 92 and so is her skin and it wrinkles up when she is holding and using the crutch. But when she stretches and bends her wrist you can see her skin is striped since it doesn't get sun inside the wrinkles. It's cute it looks like tiger stripes.
dude i used to work at the movie theater in SM and you were always one of my/the whole crews favorite guests!! u are amazing so glad to see u thriving on here , had no idea you did stand up!
This is so informative. I’m looking at two upcoming surgeries that will put me on crutches. I appreciate your making this video as so many people recommend these crutches, and your review helps me understand why. Thank you for this!
I bought Mobilegs crutches after reading good reviews on Amazon. I found them to be comfortable, durable, easy to adjust, portable, and good for tight spaces. I hang a reusable shopping bag off the handle of one so I don't have to carry things in my hands while attempting to retain the crutches. It feels much safer. After trying the Mobilegs, I no longer use the standard aluminum crutches the hospital gave me. Well worth the price.
Have used underarm crutches for several injuries, but I just order a pair of forearm crutches this week after injuring my ankle. We will see how it goes. Thanks for reviewing these. Now I know which ones to get if they forearm crutches don’t work for me.
Thanks for the primer. I wish I had known when I was on crutches for short periods. Something about breaking my leg in a race and severely twisting my ankle in a fun run. I'm a klutz. I had to learn how to get on and off buses with narrow stairs and go up and down flights of stairs in my apartment building. The only problem I had was one day when I came back into my office building when it had been raining. A marble floor and a wet tip made one crutch slide out and I slammed my foot down to avoid falling. My foot with the cast. Don't be like your uncle and don't be like me. It's OK to laugh about it now but it truly wasn't funny then. One quibble: Axillary relates to the armpit. Auxiliary refers to something extra. There is a subtle difference in the pronunciation of the two words.
Honestly always just watched your comedy stuff. Watched this awhile ago and was like okay? Now I’m sitting in the parking lot while my youngest son is in the emergency room for a foot injury. This video actual was very helpful and I thank you so much for it. Seems silly unless you actually need it.
I just had a Periacetabular Osteotomy surgery on my hip (will be several months on crutches for each side, including 6 weeks non weight bearing), and everybody in the Facebook group LOVES & recommends the Mobilegs. I've used other forearm crutches, SmartCrutches and axillary crutches before, and the Mobilegs are definitely my favorite so far.
I was stuck on crutches for ~2years and I’m happy I was able to find ones that were comfortable and better than the hospital ones, I tried the forearm ones but my balance is not great lmao
This is exactly what I was looking for. An honest opinion of crutches. I had surgery on my achilles tendon and I am non-weight bearing for the next 6 weeks....and I suck at crutching. I have the standard issue aluminum gray ones and I can't even count how many times I have fallen with them. I have also fallen using just a walker. I am a klutz. I also have a knee scooter, but my knees are so sore from landing on them while falling that it hurts to use the scooter, plus my cat won't get out of the way so he keeps getting his tail clipped by my scooter. I have terrible balance, I'm 55 years old, 5 feet tall, my kids tell their friends that I'm a hobbit, and I have just been staying in my bed all day cause I'm too afraid to use the crutches to do anything. I was thinking that the Dynamo swing crutches might be good ones, but before I conviince my husband to buy them for me to try, I wanted to see some reviews on the stability factor. I told him the other day if there was a way to glue shoes onto the end of my crutches, then I might do better because I needed more stability, and a bigger tip, like a foot-sized tip for balance.
Hi josh, I’ve just read your book- we should hang out sometime. I LOVED the book, and you are a huge inspiration for me and you are so funny and kind. I think you are so awesome being a Paralympic skier, and as a person
In my experience underarm crutches are associated with injury by American society, while forearm crutches are associated with a more permanent disability. People here don't want to be associated with icky yucky cripples , which is sad because we're cool AF
2:13 the auxiliary crutches have that thing at the end of the nail (?) (I don't know how it's called in english) and sometimes I would poke and harm my leg with that so I had to remember to put always put it facing out and it was kind of annoying
I was on crutches for two days because I hurt my knee and was in a stupid knee imobilizer. The nurse didn't let me practice walking with the crutches nor adjust them properly. They hurt my arms like hell. I wanted a walker or wheelchair instead.
They should have. Nerve damage can be permanent, but a lot of ppl have theirs adjusted incorrectly so they are pressing directly into the armpit. Which is very bad.
I'm going to respond to myself since no one bothered to inform me. He had Ewings carcinoma in his leg which affects either soft tissue or bone. The cause is unknown.
Sometimes when my wrists get tired I will take a rest and just stand and let down w/ my armpit taking some pressure then. I will be more careful about it now hearing about the nerve damage.
No joke this is why I use full cuff forearm crutches instead of half cuff. The cuff moves up and down instead of being fixed in place like with a half cuff
I just broke 3 big bones in my ankle plus a dislocation had to have emergency surgery. Also a level 2 sprain in my other ankle with 1 fracture, wearing a walking boot on one foot and a hard cast on the other. Would the mobilegs be the best for me? The dr said to start using crutches.
When I injured my knee, I used my grandmas old walker in place for crutches. It had no support so I was bearing all of my weight on my hands which caused me to sprain ligaments in both my hands. Don’t be a cheap fool like me and buy yourself a pair of crutches!
They are axillary (ax-ill-ary; AX like in chopping although most folks spell it AXE 🪓); NOT auxiliary (AUX), a trivial point. We do put them in our armpits, the axilla. Pardon my pickiness but I was a doctor. Great video by the way. I’m having foot/ankle surgery. Reconstruction versus amputation? Trying to figure out better crutches. I tried forearm crutches but I seemed to be too weak and my balance is poor due to neuropathy.
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welcome to the most niche of content you'll waste 8 minutes on today
But if one is looking for an expert on the subject matter, I can't think of a better person.
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I'm hearing it before I could or would ever need it. Imagine watching a video about how to walk after shattering your knee
I’m about to have knee surgery and this was EXACTLY the video I needed
Just suffered a right BK amputation so I'm on a few pairs so far so this is just what I needed.
This feels like I'm surfing channels at 3 am and landed on a weird infomercial
Guess you never had a bad knee or ankle and needed crutches. I found this to be excellent info.
My friend gave me a pair of mobi's and now I know what they are all about.
I just had surgery on my ankle.
Would love to see a best forearm crutches vid
Josh, I thought this was very interesting! I am 55 and have had five knee surgeries (including total replacement of each knee) and a broken ankle, in the last 14 years. I was never able to use crutches because I lacked the upper body strength. I had to use walkers, canes, and even a knee scooter during all those recoveries. I was only ever issued the standard aluminum hospital crutches. Your video makes me wonder if I would have had more success with the more advanced designs you show here, if they were even available back then.
On another note, you are so right about the potential for shoulder damage from crutches. I had a coworker who seriously messed up his knee playing soccer (think, multiple ligament ruptures and torn meniscus, etc., etc.,) and had a huge surgery to repair it. He was on crutches for many months. He didn’t use them properly and ended up with a torn rotator cuff in one shoulder, and had to have another big surgery. No fun at all.
I’m glad to see you looking well.
Just a guy with a broken ankle looking for better crutch options. I was mesmerized by your agility and balance. Thanks for the great and helpful video!
Hi my name is Kathy and I use the Mobilegs Ultra. I am 100% disabled. These crutches are truly amazing. I have been using them for about 8 years now and boy can I really move out. Love the 2 adjustable positions for how long your torso is and thru the waist. The grips for your hands are soooo comfortable, the spring, swivel comforter under the armpits baskets are so comfortable and really move with you. The feet have a rocker/roll thru your walk instead of stripping with old metal crutches. Moblilegs are truly the best!!! For short term, long term or possibly for the rest of my life. Thank you Moblilegs,
Kathy :-)
Huh never thought of this but in Sweden (were I live) we only have forearm crutches, the hospital ones are Grey forearm crutches
same in England!
Yeah the USA is like the only developed nation where everyone for some reason uses forearm crutches for short term use.
You never see them in, say, Europe.
@@JoshSundquist but obviously I've seen a lot of underarm crutches because of TV-shows lol🤔😂
@@JoshSundquist Canada youll see the underarm ones too.... though that could be because im in a border city to the US? Not sure.
Fun crutch side effect: my grandmother has been using forearm crutches for a good few years now. She walks a lot and often stops to talk to the neighbours, so she spends a lot of time outside and in the sun. She is 92 and so is her skin and it wrinkles up when she is holding and using the crutch. But when she stretches and bends her wrist you can see her skin is striped since it doesn't get sun inside the wrinkles. It's cute it looks like tiger stripes.
dude i used to work at the movie theater in SM and you were always one of my/the whole crews favorite guests!! u are amazing so glad to see u thriving on here , had no idea you did stand up!
This is so informative. I’m looking at two upcoming surgeries that will put me on crutches. I appreciate your making this video as so many people recommend these crutches, and your review helps me understand why. Thank you for this!
You’re posture is amazing.
should I be doing my ethics homework right now? probably. did I click this as soon as I saw the notification? of course!
Is that an ethical decision? Probably
I bought Mobilegs crutches after reading good reviews on Amazon. I found them to be comfortable, durable, easy to adjust, portable, and good for tight spaces. I hang a reusable shopping bag off the handle of one so I don't have to carry things in my hands while attempting to retain the crutches. It feels much safer. After trying the Mobilegs, I no longer use the standard aluminum crutches the hospital gave me. Well worth the price.
Have used underarm crutches for several injuries, but I just order a pair of forearm crutches this week after injuring my ankle. We will see how it goes. Thanks for reviewing these. Now I know which ones to get if they forearm crutches don’t work for me.
Thanks for the primer. I wish I had known when I was on crutches for short periods. Something about breaking my leg in a race and severely twisting my ankle in a fun run. I'm a klutz. I had to learn how to get on and off buses with narrow stairs and go up and down flights of stairs in my apartment building. The only problem I had was one day when I came back into my office building when it had been raining. A marble floor and a wet tip made one crutch slide out and I slammed my foot down to avoid falling. My foot with the cast. Don't be like your uncle and don't be like me. It's OK to laugh about it now but it truly wasn't funny then.
One quibble: Axillary relates to the armpit. Auxiliary refers to something extra. There is a subtle difference in the pronunciation of the two words.
Honestly always just watched your comedy stuff. Watched this awhile ago and was like okay? Now I’m sitting in the parking lot while my youngest son is in the emergency room for a foot injury. This video actual was very helpful and I thank you so much for it. Seems silly unless you actually need it.
I just had a Periacetabular Osteotomy surgery on my hip (will be several months on crutches for each side, including 6 weeks non weight bearing), and everybody in the Facebook group LOVES & recommends the Mobilegs. I've used other forearm crutches, SmartCrutches and axillary crutches before, and the Mobilegs are definitely my favorite so far.
God bless you and give you the cerenety you need ❤❤❤
Hello josh, I used wooden crutches instead of that, I can hold anything while walking and even running🙃
I was stuck on crutches for ~2years and I’m happy I was able to find ones that were comfortable and better than the hospital ones, I tried the forearm ones but my balance is not great lmao
I got a costume idea: A snake attached to a straw vase.
This is exactly what I was looking for. An honest opinion of crutches. I had surgery on my achilles tendon and I am non-weight bearing for the next 6 weeks....and I suck at crutching. I have the standard issue aluminum gray ones and I can't even count how many times I have fallen with them. I have also fallen using just a walker. I am a klutz. I also have a knee scooter, but my knees are so sore from landing on them while falling that it hurts to use the scooter, plus my cat won't get out of the way so he keeps getting his tail clipped by my scooter. I have terrible balance, I'm 55 years old, 5 feet tall, my kids tell their friends that I'm a hobbit, and I have just been staying in my bed all day cause I'm too afraid to use the crutches to do anything. I was thinking that the Dynamo swing crutches might be good ones, but before I conviince my husband to buy them for me to try, I wanted to see some reviews on the stability factor. I told him the other day if there was a way to glue shoes onto the end of my crutches, then I might do better because I needed more stability, and a bigger tip, like a foot-sized tip for balance.
Best of luck!
Hi josh, I’ve just read your book- we should hang out sometime. I LOVED the book, and you are a huge inspiration for me and you are so funny and kind. I think you are so awesome being a Paralympic skier, and as a person
Why am I even watching this? Lol
One can never be too prepared
Never thought I’d be an amputee but here I am.
In all my years nobody until now has warned about nerve damage; JC, fml! & thank you Josh.
I don't know why im watching this but its cool. Also you look like loki!!
Thank you. Excellent information.
Never understood why they mainly use underarm crutches in America and I'm forever grateful for living in Europe in that case 😊
Yeah I’m not sure why that is
In my experience underarm crutches are associated with injury by American society, while forearm crutches are associated with a more permanent disability. People here don't want to be associated with icky yucky cripples , which is sad because we're cool AF
Thank you for a fabulous review! ❤
Thanks Josh i'm sold on the Mobilelegs
2:13 the auxiliary crutches have that thing at the end of the nail (?) (I don't know how it's called in english) and sometimes I would poke and harm my leg with that so I had to remember to put always put it facing out and it was kind of annoying
Very insightful, thank you!
I'm surprised that you didn't include sidestix.
I was on wooden crutches for a good while they are the worst my hands and armpits hurt so much and for weeks afterwards😂😂
I hope your leg feels better
Very informative
Thanks for this video It really helped me .
Glad to hear it!
Hi . Could you please tell me the Canadian crutches that you are using i. The video.
Josh: theyre designed to go low but Kiss the Armpit Support the Arm
Funny, not sure if this is a cultural thing (Netherlands, Europe) but I've never seen underarm crutches in real life.
I also already Made a strip of duct tape to connect to my two crutches so that they are like the slingshot (free upgrade!)
I was on crutches for two days because I hurt my knee and was in a stupid knee imobilizer. The nurse didn't let me practice walking with the crutches nor adjust them properly. They hurt my arms like hell. I wanted a walker or wheelchair instead.
I’ve been on crutches twice after two surgery’s and neither of them told me to not put my weight on my hands and not arm pits.
They should have. Nerve damage can be permanent, but a lot of ppl have theirs adjusted incorrectly so they are pressing directly into the armpit. Which is very bad.
The fact that this has no dislikes makes me happy
THANK YOU
Glad you liked our Sport Swing Crutches and we would like to send you the forearm version when they are ready!! dynamome.com/products/versa-bigfoot
Josh do you have a vid talking about how you lost your leg?
I'm going to respond to myself since no one bothered to inform me. He had Ewings carcinoma in his leg which affects either soft tissue or bone. The cause is unknown.
Sometimes when my wrists get tired I will take a rest and just stand and let down w/ my armpit taking some pressure then. I will be more careful about it now hearing about the nerve damage.
No joke this is why I use full cuff forearm crutches instead of half cuff. The cuff moves up and down instead of being fixed in place like with a half cuff
when I sprained my ankle I got a splint but no crutches should've have I got crutches
I want to purchase pls give information for purchase
I just broke 3 big bones in my ankle plus a dislocation had to have emergency surgery. Also a level 2 sprain in my other ankle with 1 fracture, wearing a walking boot on one foot and a hard cast on the other. Would the mobilegs be the best for me? The dr said to start using crutches.
He is the next Loki
Looks like him
When I injured my knee, I used my grandmas old walker in place for crutches. It had no support so I was bearing all of my weight on my hands which caused me to sprain ligaments in both my hands. Don’t be a cheap fool like me and buy yourself a pair of crutches!
Can you use mobilegs if you only need one crutch?
Life is still good, ya I still got Threeeeee!
Check out the iwalk if you haven’t heard of it I’m about to convert my crutches into a DIY version
They are axillary (ax-ill-ary; AX like in chopping although most folks spell it AXE 🪓); NOT auxiliary (AUX), a trivial point. We do put them in our armpits, the axilla. Pardon my pickiness but I was a doctor. Great video by the way. I’m having foot/ankle surgery. Reconstruction versus amputation? Trying to figure out better crutches. I tried forearm crutches but I seemed to be too weak and my balance is poor due to neuropathy.
tolles video
I have a challenge for u
Only use 1 crutch and see if u can do it
First