How to Adjust and Use Trekking Poles
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Instructional video, done by a physical therapist/specialist in orthapidics who describes how to correctly adjust and use trekking poles to reduce pain and strain in your joints, muscles and tendons.
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If i understand correctly, she's putting her hand through the strap incorrectly. She's putting her hand in the strap from the top side which means if she fell while using her pole and splayed her hand to catch her fall, her hand would fall on her pole, between her thumb and finger and risk breaking her thumb.
What she needs to do is thread her hand through the strap from the bottom side and then wrap her hand both back around the pole handle and top parts of the strap. If she did it this way, if she fell, she could release the pole handle and splay her hand to catch her fall without falling on the pole between her thumb and fingers and risk injury to her hand.
I agree
Great point. I will reshoot this soon with new hand positioning. I appreciate your description for others in the meantime. Thank you!
@@newdimensionsphysicalthera4943 may i suggest you take this post down. There's a lot of people out there who believe a physical therapist and that's it... in the long run gives a bad rap for PT.
@@edsantos5419 I agree. And, I'm not very good at spelling, but I'm pretty sure it's; 'orthopedics'.
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Thank you for your excellent informative, thorough, and concise video on adjusting and using trekking poles. Everything I need to know about them in under five minutes. Very well done!
Don't follow her advice on using the straps unless you want to break your thumb!
Hand goes through strap from the bottom. If you continue to do it this way a broken foot is the least of your worries. The issue is if you fall you will land with the strap over your thumb and the pole under your thumb. Your looking at a broken, fractured or dislocated thumb while you're out in the wilderness possibly days from help. It's not up for debate as other people say. All manufacturers of trekking poles have clearly stated that you insert from the bottom.
Are you saying a broken foot or a fractured thumb is better? which of the 2 do you want? I don't get it.
Thanks, guys for your tips of holding the hiking stick grip. I then realized even I wasn't holding it correctly. Kudos.
I use a single "wizard pole", About seven feet long, flat rubber foot, stainless steel cap, kevlar tubing top and bottom and made of 1 1/4" dia. hickory. My original pole like it was made from a hickory tree that was struck by a monster bolt of lighting back in 1976 and blew this huge tree to pieces. A huge interior piece of it landed in my yard and I hung it up to dry straight, I later whittled on it and then a friend with a router table and large rounding over bit made it round for me.
I've hiked all over the US with it and over the years it's been beaten to death and is now about six feet shorter, hence the changes I made to my new one. I retired "Old Lighting", but no carbon fiber for me. I'm sixty two now and still love to hike. I have a couple kids try to enlighten me on the way of the dual trekking poles but I just smile and tell them, "Thanks."
Old Lighting never disappointed me or let me down and drove off a couple wild animal attacks, you won't do that with a damned old trekking pole.
You're awesome! My wife just got some hiking poles. We thought they were junk. She got the type that adjusts by twisting the poles. Here we are trying to turn the black part to set the height. We're supposed to be turning the POLES to unlock and set. She just bought another set from Wal Mart (with the levers) and gave me the ones that work after all. I was going to try and rig them up to work, but thanks to your video, I don't have to now. Again, you're awesome!
❤ very helpful, thanks!! I am almost 50 and in good shape but have been wanting hiking poles
Strap errors aside, I thought you provided some excellent, albeit unconventional, tips. For example, having your arms lower than 90 degrees. That seems to work better for me as well.
Yeah. Good tips. More than 90 deg for me too. And planting the tip back by the rear foot's toe. Good advice. Strap errors aside, of course.
Brilliamt, clear. Extremely helpful. Thx
Great video! We are doing our first overnight backpacking trip next weekend and these tips will surely help. Thanks!
Great info. I like the part about being in proportion with each section. Good tip!
The way that you put your hand in the strap looks like you might not be able to catch yourself if you fall. Otherwise, it's a good video.
Yep- wrist strap fail. That's how you jack your thumb up if you fall...
This was excellent, thank you very much!
Yes she is absolutely doing it wrong. That is not how you are supposed to put your hands in the strap. This is a good way to break your wrist if you fall. This video should be deleted for safety
Clear and concise information. Thank you, very helpful.
Very helpful thank you. Yes I know how to correctly use the strap
Where did you make the video, it's beautiful
You are not inserting your hands into the straps correctly! You have a good video here, but this mistake borders on the egregious. You need to insert your hand UP through the strap with your hand holding both the strap and the grip so your wrist is supported. You can break your thumb on a fall otherwise.
View nearly any other video on trekking poles for correct placement of hands through the straps.
And just a little picky side note: I know physical therapists work a great deal with orthopedic patients. So for the sake of your credibility, you should spell it correctly. It is not "orthapidics".
Otherwise, it is a great video with lots of good information. I would love for you to redo it and keep the good parts and correct your mistakes!
Awesome thanks!👍😎🇨🇦
Excellent video, thnx
Excellent tips!!
Totally wrong in the way the wrist goes into strap.
What's the right way?
@rc2128 you bring your hand up from the bottom and fit it through the loop then grab the grip so both sections of the strap are now between your thumb and fingers. This way you need only a light grip because the pressure pushing down is on your wrist. Also, if you fall the grip is released from your hand. The wrong method could cause your thumb to break. There are proper videos out there showing this.
That is not the correct hand position to use for trekking poles - please don't use that hand position.
So basically, walking sticks are useless whenever your trek takes you on undulating terrain because you'd have to stop, adjust your poles lower or higher or back to normal every time you go up or down or flat. That would be a pain in the butt when hiking solo but impractical when hiking with a group.
Tip: if you are making a video about how to use trekking poles, be sure you know how to use them yourself first😂 You are using the straps all wrong-your hand should come from under and up into the loop, not from the top going down. If you fall while holding the poles the way you're holding them, you are sure to dislocate or break your thumb, and seriously injure your wrists!
hahahahahaha!!!!!
Nicely done!
Totally wrong don't make videos until you know what you are talking about, poles at 90 degrees and hands up through the straps
Great video thanks.
Okay you do not know how to use the straps on the trekking poles. not sure where your experiance comes from but it is poor.
0:42 hand is suppose to come up through the strap from bottom.... you're doing it wrong all wrong! It you fall that way you'll dislocate or break your thumb.
good advise thanks much!
I would like to advise you on how to spell advice. Two different words, with two different meanings.
You are completely using the trekking pole strap incorrectly!! It should not be on your wrist like that. So not good that you are showing people incorrect use. Your hand should come up from below and the strap should be cradled across the palm of your hand.
Dangerously incorrect placement of hands and wrists through straps.
incorrect technique with the straps
TAKE IT OFF!
She doesn't even know or show how to put your hand through the strap ~ not good!
Watta heck shes doing it all wrong... cant watch this crap
Please look at the angle of your arm and stop saying that the angle is "less than 90 degrees".
I think most viewers looked at the angle of her arm and figured out the angle of her arm, irrespective of what she was saying. Just saying.
Sorry for the confusion, when physical therapists measure elbow range of motion we start with the elbow straight being zero degrees of flexion and measure up from there. So in my world that angle is less than 90 degrees. However, I can see how you were looking at it :)
That doesn't bother me as much as her incorrect placement of the wrists. Following her advice can result in injury.
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