You’re so right that walking w/ a cane doesn’t look ridiculous, waddling when you walk does. I was so resistant to using a cane. My sister finally told me to stop risking a fall. I took her advice and feel so much more confident now that I walk with a cane. Now it feels awkward to walk without it. I happened to spot a neighbor the other day hobbling down his driveway & could see how bad that looks.
Fact: there are fashionable canes with colors and fun designs on them. Anyway, who is judging? I rather walk with a cane, then fall and than not walk at all.
thank heaven for the [CC] option, ---the last few videos have had significantly reduced volume levels, ---hope you can get audio back up to where you used to have it
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You taught me how to (correctly) walk with my cane beginning on the injured side, which feels so much better. Adjust my cane height properly which was incorrectly done when fitted. They focused on if I was left/right handed but not height. Now was stride is stronger, steadier,less fatigue in shoulders, everything.
So you don't get the wrong impression ... I REALLY value you guys! I've learned SO MUCH from Bob & Brad and have incorporated what you suggest and it has made my life better! (I never thought this would be part of ME growing old, ---but after 70 trips around the sun I've learned that aging is not for the faint of heart and I can use all the help I can get! :)
I have ms and going through a relaspe currently so my walking is impaired alot this video helped alot first time using a cane.Canes are not only for the elderly as most people think younger persons may need canes too nothing to be ashamed about I am learning.
Thinking about it - in past times, if we had some joint pain when walking, we'd just use a stick. Nowadays it seems to have been elevated to a statement. One day we don't use a walking aid - the next we do and it seems to be something that the world has a right to know about! The attitude has gone very awry and it needs to be reeled back in :) . I'm going to feel extra self conscious, when I next use my stick, because I don't look anything like a hiker.
I have hypermobile spectrum disorder (though I suspect hEDS) and a retroverted acetabulum. My hip pain has gotten significantly worse and I've developed a limp in the last few months. I'm seriously considering a cane while I wait for PT to start. Thanks so much for these videos!
I am also on the HSD/GJHS-> EDS train too. Fighting the genetics clinic who say it's not necessary bc of the lack of hEDS gene knowledge... (Hoping for the gene to come out of hiding sometime soon!) I am looking forward to using my cane on bad days/during flare ups. Plus trying to do PT, but as you know, everything always goes wrong.
I began walking with a cane years back. After a few months I realized it was the shoes I was wearing. I switched my shoes and all became well within a few days I no longer needed the cane.
Hi Bob and Brad I have bone on bone knee pain and I walk with a Walker I've noticed I've been leaning forward alot when walking on my own can you do a video us with bad knee pain God bless you for the wonderful work you do
thank you im 32 with hernia pain and this has helped alot i will send this video to others that dont know how to use a cane/walking stick as the town i live in there is alot of elderly that dont know how to use a cane/walking or a walker right and its causing them more pain
Lol, I've been using my cane about two inches too high. The adjustment has actually made a huge difference! Thanks!!! (5 months into my hip hurting like a ...um...'female dog'... I finally have a diagnosis... Osteonecrosis 🙁 i'm not even 50... bad genes suck!)
Same. I’ve been diagnosed with AVN as well, and I’m about to be 40. 😟 Wasn’t surprised though; my grandmother had both hips and knees replaced by the time she was 55, and my mother had her third knee replacement last February. Good luck to you, sir! 😀
You are more than welcome my friend. I myself had stroke-like symptoms for 22 years and at many times was bedridden. I never gave up hope. If I would have had someone to help me I could have got back on my feet within the first couple of years. With perseverance I found a Doctor a long way from home that understood my symptoms & improved my health within weeks not years. Your day will come!
Thank you for the information, and taking the time to make this video, humans! I'm somewhere on the hypermobile spectrum. Not a lot of advice where I am on how to manage it, or testing into the specific type so someone can figure it out from other people's info. And currently, it appears as though I'm in dear need of a cane at the ripe old age of twenty. Specifically because of my knees and hips, even with efforts to counteract that on my part, but also a bit from my ankles even with binding them, too. You've aided me immensely in figuring this thing out. Now I just gotta practice walking with it, it seems.
yes, hypermobility syndrome/HEDS?/HSD too, plus OA and CPPD at 69 and told to use a cane. But I had been using one due to pain in my 30's. Also look at hypermobile hinged knee braces like Donjoy and others. Really help, but don't immobilise the joint, just stop the overextension.
It's not a condition I know anything about but I can imagine what it is and it sounds horrific. Your joints flex more than is good for them? Holy hell that must be terrible. Both of you have my sympathy.
When I use the cane, hip pain flares up intensely after about 30 mins of walking, however if pushing a grocery cart (one-handed of course) I can wallk all over the store with zero discomfort. What, if anything, does this suggest?
How did you guys know to put out this video right as I was picking up my new cane? I got back and there it was newly posted. Thanks. I guess I won't have to tell you what else I need since you must have ESP or can read minds.
Thanks, you two, for putting this video out. I am learning fast. I have an eight mile walk, ahead of me, as I need to personally hand a form in at the local surgery. I have neither stick nor walker nor crutch and, the last time I did it, my poor (well - my feet were bad, too, and I might pre bandage them this time) hip suffered for days after. So, I have found a potentially suitable stick in the garden. I did not realise it had to be used on the side opposite the problem - so that's one instantly valuable bit of information. I'm going to practice with it, today, and then it gets it's full deployment when I don't have the twinges. If it really helps - I may invest in something purpose made. I don't really need any help, yet, for my normal walking and ambling about - eight miles on tarmac (particularly when one has to keep leaping up onto road verges to avoid oncoming traffic) is a beast. Even if the reduction, in recovery time, is small - it's worth it.
I got a Comodita' walker - their Avanti' model is one of very few wheeled walkers I could find anywhere - excellent company, welded joints and 8-inch wheels.
Honestly, when I tried to transition from one crutch to a cane, I found the cane very wobbly whereas the crutch more stable because the top of it anchors against my side. After using a cane my back, shoulders and neck were painful.
hello! ive been watching your videos for a bit, and was wondering if you have any tips for someone with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? almost all of my joints are hypermobile and as a result, my hip flexors have become incredibly tight, causing a pelvic tilt. It's really painful and most things just tend to hurt. Thanks!
Hi whatadollslife, I do agree with you on this, my hemi-walker has saved my ass from a hard fall several times; I just miss being agile on my feet like I was before my stroke. But that was then, and this is now, right? So I will keep moving forward! Godspeed and God bless you! I did fall hard once here in my home;as I stepped on my own foot with my paralyzed leg.It was NOT fun at all!
Do NOT sit in a 4 wheel walker and get pushed around. Very very unstable. Watched an older lady crack her head open on the sidewalk because her partner was pushing her and ,crack in sidewalk, down she went.
I have been debating on getting a walker I have used my cane and it doesn't help at all. my sciatica has become so bad my hip is more times than not in chronic pain, it's horrible. I'm only 34 turning 35 but I injured my bad really bad at work when I was only 21 and I fell last year and I swear damaged my kneecap. I have a doctors appointment this Monday I'm going to just double check and see if that's a route I should go. I wobble and when I walk past someone I almost fall to the side. I am constantly worried they think I'm creepy and trying to get closer....
sorry to be a Nagging Nellie but, ---when one goes to your site, under [PROGRAMS], HIP SERIES, it still has [COMING SOON!!!] and nothing happens when clicked
Sorry that my question has nothing to do with hip pain. But I trust you guys to be able to explain this to me. And you guys post regularly. My name is Amber. And my chiropractor just told me my mask is too tight. He said my mask inhibits the movement of my mandible bones (and others that I don’t remember) and that that restriction inhibits the skull movements necessary to distribute CSF over the brain. I’m not a medical student. But can you please explain that more to me? Also what could be the long term effects of not getting the proper amount of CSF over the brain? How bad could it be for those who have to wear masks for long periods of time? Thanks guys. You rock! 🤗💕
I got 3 times pain in lower back just above the pelvic joint L4 l5 l5 S1 pls guide me for protrusion in L4 l5 and l5 S1 got left leg numb completely till thumb of leg
Check out even more great tips for treating hip pain with our Hip Pain Program ua-cam.com/play/PL8l32k1r15l5iQVvJytCOZlPDIzFz2rNo.html
You’re so right that walking w/ a cane doesn’t look ridiculous, waddling when you walk does. I was so resistant to using a cane. My sister finally told me to stop risking a fall. I took her advice and feel so much more confident now that I walk with a cane. Now it feels awkward to walk without it. I happened to spot a neighbor the other day hobbling down his driveway & could see how bad that looks.
Facts. I really think I look 👀 bad walking with a cane 🦯 but this is probably a better option than messing up anything else
Fact: there are fashionable canes with colors and fun designs on them. Anyway, who is judging?
I rather walk with a cane, then fall and than not walk at all.
thank heaven for the [CC] option, ---the last few videos have had significantly reduced volume levels, ---hope you can get audio back up to where you used to have it
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You taught me how to (correctly) walk with my cane beginning on the injured side, which feels so much better. Adjust my cane height properly which was incorrectly done when fitted. They focused on if I was left/right handed but not height. Now was stride is stronger, steadier,less fatigue in shoulders, everything.
So you don't get the wrong impression ... I REALLY value you guys! I've learned SO MUCH from Bob & Brad and have incorporated what you suggest and it has made my life better! (I never thought this would be part of ME growing old, ---but after 70 trips around the sun I've learned that aging is not for the faint of heart and I can use all the help I can get! :)
Yes..aging ain't for the weak!
I have ms and going through a relaspe currently so my walking is impaired alot this video helped alot first time using a cane.Canes are not only for the elderly as most people think younger persons may need canes too nothing to be ashamed about I am learning.
Thinking about it - in past times, if we had some joint pain when walking, we'd just use a stick. Nowadays it seems to have been elevated to a statement. One day we don't use a walking aid - the next we do and it seems to be something that the world has a right to know about! The attitude has gone very awry and it needs to be reeled back in :) . I'm going to feel extra self conscious, when I next use my stick, because I don't look anything like a hiker.
I have hypermobile spectrum disorder (though I suspect hEDS) and a retroverted acetabulum. My hip pain has gotten significantly worse and I've developed a limp in the last few months. I'm seriously considering a cane while I wait for PT to start. Thanks so much for these videos!
I am also on the HSD/GJHS-> EDS train too. Fighting the genetics clinic who say it's not necessary bc of the lack of hEDS gene knowledge... (Hoping for the gene to come out of hiding sometime soon!)
I am looking forward to using my cane on bad days/during flare ups. Plus trying to do PT, but as you know, everything always goes wrong.
I began walking with a cane years back. After a few months I realized it was the shoes I was wearing. I switched my shoes and all became well within a few days I no longer needed the cane.
How about a show on Lymphadema???💛💛💛
Hi Bob and Brad I have bone on bone knee pain and I walk with a Walker I've noticed I've been leaning forward alot when walking on my own can you do a video us with bad knee pain God bless you for the wonderful work you do
thank you im 32 with hernia pain and this has helped alot i will send this video to others that dont know how to use a cane/walking stick as the town i live in there is alot of elderly that dont know how to use a cane/walking or a walker right and its causing them more pain
Lol, I've been using my cane about two inches too high. The adjustment has actually made a huge difference! Thanks!!!
(5 months into my hip hurting like a ...um...'female dog'... I finally have a diagnosis... Osteonecrosis 🙁 i'm not even 50... bad genes suck!)
Same. I’ve been diagnosed with AVN as well, and I’m about to be 40. 😟 Wasn’t surprised though; my grandmother had both hips and knees replaced by the time she was 55, and my mother had her third knee replacement last February. Good luck to you, sir! 😀
I’m a stroke survivor and I dream of the day I could walk again without the use of a hemi-walker; paralyzed on left side.
Never give up. I'm very confident that you will walk again one day soon...
@@donsatman2273 tHANK YOU SIR!
@@donsatman2273 If I hadn’t said thanks yet, thank you sir for your kindness!
You are more than welcome my friend. I myself had stroke-like symptoms for 22 years and at many times was bedridden. I never gave up hope. If I would have had someone to help me I could have got back on my feet within the first couple of years. With perseverance I found a Doctor a long way from home that understood my symptoms & improved my health within weeks not years. Your day will come!
@@donsatman2273 It’s awesome you found help! Thanks! I appreciate your help and kindness! It gives me inspiration and hope
Thank you for the information, and taking the time to make this video, humans! I'm somewhere on the hypermobile spectrum. Not a lot of advice where I am on how to manage it, or testing into the specific type so someone can figure it out from other people's info. And currently, it appears as though I'm in dear need of a cane at the ripe old age of twenty. Specifically because of my knees and hips, even with efforts to counteract that on my part, but also a bit from my ankles even with binding them, too. You've aided me immensely in figuring this thing out. Now I just gotta practice walking with it, it seems.
yes, hypermobility syndrome/HEDS?/HSD too, plus OA and CPPD at 69 and told to use a cane. But I had been using one due to pain in my 30's. Also look at hypermobile hinged knee braces like Donjoy and others. Really help, but don't immobilise the joint, just stop the overextension.
It's not a condition I know anything about but I can imagine what it is and it sounds horrific. Your joints flex more than is good for them? Holy hell that must be terrible. Both of you have my sympathy.
When I use the cane, hip pain flares up intensely after about 30 mins of walking, however if pushing a grocery cart (one-handed of course) I can wallk all over the store with zero discomfort. What, if anything, does this suggest?
How did you guys know to put out this video right as I was picking up my new cane? I got back and there it was newly posted. Thanks. I guess I won't have to tell you what else I need since you must have ESP or can read minds.
Thanks, you two, for putting this video out. I am learning fast. I have an eight mile walk, ahead of me, as I need to personally hand a form in at the local surgery. I have neither stick nor walker nor crutch and, the last time I did it, my poor (well - my feet were bad, too, and I might pre bandage them this time) hip suffered for days after. So, I have found a potentially suitable stick in the garden. I did not realise it had to be used on the side opposite the problem - so that's one instantly valuable bit of information. I'm going to practice with it, today, and then it gets it's full deployment when I don't have the twinges. If it really helps - I may invest in something purpose made. I don't really need any help, yet, for my normal walking and ambling about - eight miles on tarmac (particularly when one has to keep leaping up onto road verges to avoid oncoming traffic) is a beast. Even if the reduction, in recovery time, is small - it's worth it.
Good vid. You guys are much better when you are just dead serious. Because getting a THR is no joke.
We all love you both . Thank you so much
Perfect timing. I broke my femur ball joint jan 7 and am home now trying to Rehab. TY for the walker tips
I prefer small wheels on my rolator because it is easier to get in and out of my car. I also remove the back rest.
Thankyou for all the updates. Really helpful.
God bless you ..
I got a Comodita' walker - their Avanti' model is one of very few wheeled walkers I could find anywhere - excellent company, welded joints and 8-inch wheels.
Thank you for sharing this information. You helped my situation immensely.
GOD Bless you both! Much Love and Prayers Always 🤗💜🙏🏽🤲🏽
Honestly, when I tried to transition from one crutch to a cane, I found the cane very wobbly whereas the crutch more stable because the top of it anchors against my side. After using a cane my back, shoulders and neck were painful.
hello! ive been watching your videos for a bit, and was wondering if you have any tips for someone with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? almost all of my joints are hypermobile and as a result, my hip flexors have become incredibly tight, causing a pelvic tilt. It's really painful and most things just tend to hurt. Thanks!
Respect yours
Sir I have diagnosed heritage spastic paraplegia deceased please help and tell some points how I recover this. Thanks 🙏🏻
I love my cane ..it has saved me from a few miss steps that would have ended up with me being hurt
Hi whatadollslife, I do agree with you on this, my hemi-walker has saved my ass from a hard fall several times; I just miss being agile on my feet like I was before my stroke. But that was then, and this is now, right? So I will keep moving forward! Godspeed and God bless you! I did fall hard once here in my home;as I stepped on my own foot with my paralyzed leg.It was NOT fun at all!
Thank you! That was great.
The guy on the left sounds just like Norm Macdonald (RIP).
Thanks for watching!
Is using cane quad advisa😅for someone with severe hip pain!! Thanks 😊
Hi sir I am facing AVN in my right hip and paining more and limping please suggest me exercises.
I wore my tennis 🎾 balls out in two days and I been using my cane wrong, thanks guys
I'm 17 and have hip dysplasia. Walking with a cane saved my life!
thank you so much
Hello. I would stress the use of breaks on four-wheelers as parking breaks.
My pain is the lower back. Does your information for hip pain work in my case?
Do NOT sit in a 4 wheel walker and get pushed around. Very very unstable. Watched an older lady crack her head open on the sidewalk because her partner was pushing her and ,crack in sidewalk, down she went.
What posture should you expect with two canes?
I have been debating on getting a walker I have used my cane and it doesn't help at all. my sciatica has become so bad my hip is more times than not in chronic pain, it's horrible. I'm only 34 turning 35 but I injured my bad really bad at work when I was only 21 and I fell last year and I swear damaged my kneecap.
I have a doctors appointment this Monday I'm going to just double check and see if that's a route I should go. I wobble and when I walk past someone I almost fall to the side. I am constantly worried they think I'm creepy and trying to get closer....
We are very sorry to hear that. Please let us know your diagnosis and we can send you videos you can try
sorry to be a Nagging Nellie but, ---when one goes to your site, under [PROGRAMS], HIP SERIES, it still has [COMING SOON!!!] and nothing happens when clicked
Sorry, but we only can upload 1 video/day and adding the PDF print outs add notable time and efforts. We are definately working on it.
Sorry that my question has nothing to do with hip pain. But I trust you guys to be able to explain this to me. And you guys post regularly.
My name is Amber. And my chiropractor just told me my mask is too tight. He said my mask inhibits the movement of my mandible bones (and others that I don’t remember) and that that restriction inhibits the skull movements necessary to distribute CSF over the brain.
I’m not a medical student. But can you please explain that more to me?
Also what could be the long term effects of not getting the proper amount of CSF over the brain? How bad could it be for those who have to wear masks for long periods of time?
Thanks guys. You rock! 🤗💕
What to use when both hips hurt
both my ankles are hurt and I use 2 canes at times while one ankle gets stronger ..the main thing is to make yourself feel more stable
Deborah Adams | I have a second identical cane to use when that happens to me ... usually one is enough, but I have no problem using both :)
I got 3 times pain in lower back just above the pelvic joint L4 l5 l5 S1 pls guide me for protrusion in L4 l5 and l5 S1 got left leg numb completely till thumb of leg
You had the cane facing the wrong direction!!
Every time after the pain my numbness in leg increases