Thank you for this video. I had surgery on my left foot a week and a half ago and my armpits have been constantly sore from the crutches 😥 I realized after watching your video that they were too long so I adjusted them and I feel much better. Also the part about the stairs was very helpful too. I appreciate the slow directions given in the video, I had no problem following along 👍 🙂
I'm a nurse who just tore my gastrocnemius and working in cardiology had little knowledge of crutches.. Lol thanks so much this video has been very illuminating!
This was so helpful! Before I watched this, I felt so stupid trying to figure it out on my own. I've never used crutches ever in my life, but I knew I was doing something wrong lol. Thanks so much, I have school in one hour and I don't feel as stupid anymore, I still need practice though.
Thank you very much for the advice! I ended up needing to use crutches for my ankle and I kinda thought I knew more about using them until i watched this video.
Thank you for taking the time to submit this video. I broke my pelvis last night and trust me, it is horrible. I cannot put any weight on my left leg. I just had multi fusion ACDF surgery in November and am fully disabled by several other chronic health issues so things are challenging as it. It was a freak fall....... this video really helped me (with my husband watching with me and coaching). Thank you again. Very good video!
This was extremely helpful! My hand pieces were too far down on my crutches which was causing them to go into my armpit. I bumped up the hand pieces and everything feels much better! I also was having trouble figuring out how to do stairs, so I will implement what this video had said. Thanks for the demonstration!
Yesterday, a ligament in my knee tore away from my bone and took a piece of bone with it. I have never experienced this much pain in my life. It is extremely swollen and bruised. I went to the ER and they gave me crutches and a brace for my knee. I have never walked on crutches before. Thank you so much for this video! It was very helpful especially because all of my classes in school are upstairs (so everyday I will have to climb up and down the stairs).
Wow, thank you for this insightful and helpful video. I'm on crutches right now a I now know that I have been walking wrong sitting wrong, and walking up and down stairs wrong all along. ❤❤❤
Thank you. After ankle surgery I was given crutches, but no instructions except to not put weight on armpits (or ankle). No adjustments were made to the crutches for me. My arms and hands were hurting.After watching video, I adjusted crutches and what a difference in comfort. Thank you again.
I had knee surgery scheduled and asked the surgical team if I could get the crutches early to practice. They told me that I could and that I could also schedule a crutches practice session with a PT. That was so much more helpful than being given the crutches on the day of surgery. I don't know why they don't advise this for every scheduled crutch user.
When I first received my crutches for my knee replacements, I had no issues what so ever. Then I just recently went through a total foot reconstruct that is a NLB on the foot for 8-10 weeks. The hospital therapist came in the next day and had me using the crutches without any proper instruction especially when she had do the stair exercise. Watching your video has to some extent eliminated some of my fear, since I fell the first night home with the crutches, and now use a walker and wheelchair
Just broke my foot last night. My first broken bone in the 35 years I've been alive. They tried to tell me at the hospital and I just barely did well enough to let me go home. But I did most of this correctly by instinct, just wasn't sure the proper way to "walk". Thanks for this video!
Thanks for your excellent instruction! I did something to my ankle during a run yesterday, and bought a set of crutches (since it's Thanksgiving Weekend, and I can't see a specialist until Monday or Tuesday). Very painful to put weight on left foot. I'm doing RICE, but the crutches help a lot -- thanks to you video!
Thank you very much for specific instructional film in Poland showed you how to walk, learning lasted 3 minutes and I have to practice according to the Polish standard.
This is really helpful thank you , I got my crutches today and realised I was putting a lot of pressure on my armpits. Now imma gonna walk properly with this.
My crutches caused so much pain and I tried using padding and every thing. nothing worked but with the help of this.video I realised that my hand pad was 2 low and by correcting that I have had no further discomfort wish I knew that 3 weeks ago. thanks for all the help
The urgent care doctor I saw gave me no information on if I should put weight on my ankle. All I was given was a boot. As it's extremely painful to walk, I got crutches for myself. This was very informative.
Thank you. I just sprained my ankle (grade three) and are going to be on crutches for over two months, and I was a little bit confused about how to use them, especially on our stairs. I'm not supposed to put any weight on it, and I am going to have an ankle brace on, and I really needed help with this. Thank you!
God bless this video! Really helped alot! The physiotherapist taught me the wrong thing! You shown on the segment ' How do I stand up' just like how you demostrate. I underwent Calcaneum ORIF on my right feet. so I have only left leg to hold my weight. The therapist demo me positioned the crutches on my left side before getting up. And I tried following you position it on my right side, its more efficient. Thank you!
I appreciate this. I. 4' 11.5" tall and the crutches I have only go down to 5 2. I need shorter ones. This helped me figure it out. I'm hoping that makes using crutches a little easier.
Thanks so much for making this video, the one thing they forgot to teach me where I got my crutches was how to get up and down. They showed me how to walk , Which was fine. You should've seen what I was doing before this video. To get up from a seated position I was grabbing the top of the crutches and pulling myself up , something like some sort of iron -cross maneuver on the rings. Pretty funny and not very safe. Thanks again
Thanks you very much Lisa i hope you the best things, My first time using crutches i just got tendon teared up in my foot and i can't walk normally, at first my armpit just got fucked up but after this video i learned how to walk.
i have 2 get knee surgery and i was soo nervous because i'm about to start school and i was scared on wat i'm goin to do for the school bus stairs.. but this made me feel better!!
Thank you for this video-- just had foot surgery and released without the crutches being fitted or even ensuring I knew how to use them!! Looking forward to receiving and venting on the patient survey. Regardless, I feel so much better now that I know how to get around.
Always thank all your doctors for their lack of interest in this crutch training problem. If you need help, see a Physical Therapist! I fired my doctor when he insisted I NOT see a P.T. clinic nearby. He only said, "Well, if all you want is to fix the pain, OK....." Hmmm, that was THE reason I went to him at all. Duuuh.
Thanks for the video. I fractured my ankle & at the urgent care, they just gave me crutches and had me sign a form. They didn't teach me how to use them or anything.
I don't have crutches but I may be getting them on Saturday so this video was very helpful in telling me what I'll need to do if I get them. (fell and landed on my knee badly. can't actually walk if any1 is wondering )
When I have something to carry across a room, and I have my crutches with me, I just put the crutches in one hand, put one thing in my other and hop over to where I'm going. If I've already got a spot, and the thing(s) I'm getting isn't too far away, I just leave my crutches there and hop to get the things and bring them back. With unsealed drinks, I can only say to hop carefully or have someone else carry it. Sometimes people offer with other stuff. If you're not sure about it, take the offer.
yesterday i hurt my foot coming down from my bunk bed i went to the er and i had a sprain and i had to use cruches (wich ive never done) thatnks for the help this helped a lot
at 3:17 you said swing the affected first but the video shows you advancing the unaffected first...could you clarify please how it is possible to advance the affected first. tx
I had to simplify the stairs thing for the sake of remembering: when going down it's CRUTCHES first. When going up it's FOOT first. Being my 1st time on crutches at age 60+ I also had to learn to make a WIDE base and GO SLOW when 1st starting out. I actually fell once and slightly bent one of my aluminum crutches because I hadn't quite got the hang of which goes 1st going up. 🙄
I just broke my ankle on monday..the back part of my foot still hurts with the stint, not to mention I broke the "Good side" so my left side is weaker..I think I may be doing it wrong though but I'm following this vid.
thanks alot, this was very useful. i got my crutches off the store with no guidance at all on how to use them :P used to lean all the weight on my armpits at first and it was very painful haha.
@NebraskaMedCenter thanks for your message. Do you have any clips on how to get in and out of a car? I've not had any success finding clips to help me.
My little brother broke his leg while playing basketball during school and I’m afraid this gonna be a huge struggle for him I don’t know if he gonna use crutches or a wheelchair to help him move around
I am new to use crutches because my left foot got injured and painful. But I still have no idea how to use crutches properly and I oftenly lose balance. So I looking for some videos on UA-cam.
This was a bit helpful. I broke the Fifth Metatarsal in my left foot 2 days ago and went to a UPMC Urgicare Center where they sent me home in an ace bandage and boot. They gave me paperwork to see an Orthopedic Surgeon for realignment and to have a cast put on, along with a set of crutches I don't know how to use. These things are jamming in my arm pits forcing me to crawl around my house to look for my cane. Now how do I use this without sprawling out on the floor? My foot is black and blue now with my toes red. I feel like yanking the bandage off and stuffing my foot in an ice bucket cause I had to put full weight on it to cook food and do other things.
What bears the weight when walking? My armpits hurt after a few steps. My arms cannot support my weight for more than a few steps. Trying to take the weight off the good leg to move it forward makes me do a hopping motion, which makes the good leg hurt too after a few steps.
i broke my ankle quad racing and it sucks im in the fiberglass cast then in june i get it off then the walking boot if the xray look good if not back in the hard cast again how to i judge 25 percent of wieght on my foor then 50% then 75 % then 100%. hope you can comente back
+Nebraska Medicine my calf muscle is broken...right now im using a knee immobilizer........any other suggestions? & when i stand i feel a lot of pressure on my leg like blood ruhing through is it normal :( btw thanks this video helped alot for my movement with crutches
I have been using crutches for a month now. And my right elbow is starting to hurt, I am not sure if it is because i am somehow bending my arms a weird way? Am I not supposed to push up with my arms? Or?
Fractured my ankle new to the whole crutches thing I miss walking
Omg same!😭
same LOL
Julia Kaylokov same :(
Same!
Julia Kaylokov same I just fractured mine
A lifesaver! I severly sprained my ankle, and I had no idea how to use my crutches. Thankyou Nebraska Medical Center!
I had knee surgery yesterday morning and I don't quite have the hang of walking on crutches yet. Thank you. I'm confident in trying again
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video. I had surgery on my left foot a week and a half ago and my armpits have been constantly sore from the crutches 😥 I realized after watching your video that they were too long so I adjusted them and I feel much better. Also the part about the stairs was very helpful too. I appreciate the slow directions given in the video, I had no problem following along 👍 🙂
Damn she tripped me out with her eyes all open like that lmao
I opened the video, said "god damn you’re terrifying.. okay," and then realized what I said out loud and felt bad 😂
She made me realize how serious my injury is 😞
And then she opened my eyes to the fact I’d been using my crutches wrong! Lol!!
I'm a nurse who just tore my gastrocnemius and working in cardiology had little knowledge of crutches.. Lol thanks so much this video has been very illuminating!
This was so helpful! Before I watched this, I felt so stupid trying to figure it out on my own. I've never used crutches ever in my life, but I knew I was doing something wrong lol. Thanks so much, I have school in one hour and I don't feel as stupid anymore, I still need practice though.
Best of luck!
same lol
Same I just got a sprained foot from a four wheeler accident this Memorial Day and I feel like imma make a fool of myself at school
I used them for months in high school. Now at 48, I felt like I never used them before.
Thank you very much for the advice! I ended up needing to use crutches for my ankle and I kinda thought I knew more about using them until i watched this video.
Thank you for taking the time to submit this video. I broke my pelvis last night and trust me, it is horrible. I cannot put any weight on my left leg. I just had multi fusion ACDF surgery in November and am fully disabled by several other chronic health issues so things are challenging as it. It was a freak fall....... this video really helped me (with my husband watching with me and coaching). Thank you again. Very good video!
I broke my Malleolus bone yesterday. I'm using crutches for the first time in my life and this is very helpful. Thank you so much!!!
I broke my fibia yesterday
This was extremely helpful! My hand pieces were too far down on my crutches which was causing them to go into my armpit. I bumped up the hand pieces and everything feels much better! I also was having trouble figuring out how to do stairs, so I will implement what this video had said. Thanks for the demonstration!
I broke my foot in cheer being one of the flyers and now I'm on crutches, I had no idea how to use them and this video helped so much thank you!! x.
I just slide down stairs
Same💀
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Yesterday, a ligament in my knee tore away from my bone and took a piece of bone with it. I have never experienced this much pain in my life. It is extremely swollen and bruised. I went to the ER and they gave me crutches and a brace for my knee. I have never walked on crutches before. Thank you so much for this video! It was very helpful especially because all of my classes in school are upstairs (so everyday I will have to climb up and down the stairs).
Dude same. Did it end up being your acl? I was running and it felt like my knee popped out. Then I saw I had a fracture on my tibia
Wow, thank you for this insightful and helpful video. I'm on crutches right now a I now know that I have been walking wrong sitting wrong, and walking up and down stairs wrong all along. ❤❤❤
Thank you. After ankle surgery I was given crutches, but no instructions except to not put weight on armpits (or ankle). No adjustments were made to the crutches for me. My arms and hands were hurting.After watching video, I adjusted crutches and what a difference in comfort. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for this video. The nurse who adjusted mine did them wrong and they hurt so much to use. Feels way better now.
I had knee surgery scheduled and asked the surgical team if I could get the crutches early to practice. They told me that I could and that I could also schedule a crutches practice session with a PT. That was so much more helpful than being given the crutches on the day of surgery. I don't know why they don't advise this for every scheduled crutch user.
When I first received my crutches for my knee replacements, I had no issues what so ever. Then I just recently went through a total foot reconstruct that is a NLB on the foot for 8-10 weeks. The hospital therapist came in the next day and had me using the crutches without any proper instruction especially when she had do the stair exercise. Watching your video has to some extent eliminated some of my fear, since I fell the first night home with the crutches, and now use a walker and wheelchair
I just had surgery and was told no weight bearing. I was given no crutches or instruction. This video is wonderful!!! Thanks
Just broke my foot last night. My first broken bone in the 35 years I've been alive. They tried to tell me at the hospital and I just barely did well enough to let me go home. But I did most of this correctly by instinct, just wasn't sure the proper way to "walk". Thanks for this video!
How do you prevent rashes on the sides of my ribs where the crutches go under the armpits?
This was excellent and easy to follow. After watching my wife gave the crutches another try. Saved as a favorite. Well done!
Fabulous Video! Much better than the instructions i received at the hospital.
i am an active person so using crutches really set me back... but this video is gonna help me move around much safer. thnx!
Thanks for your excellent instruction! I did something to my ankle during a run yesterday, and bought a set of crutches (since it's Thanksgiving Weekend, and I can't see a specialist until Monday or Tuesday). Very painful to put weight on left foot. I'm doing RICE, but the crutches help a lot -- thanks to you video!
man, i wish i would have found this video before I fell while using my crutches. Very helpful and informative! Thank you.
Thank you very much for specific instructional film in Poland showed you how to walk, learning lasted 3 minutes and I have to practice according to the Polish standard.
This is really helpful thank you , I got my crutches today and realised I was putting a lot of pressure on my armpits. Now imma gonna walk properly with this.
My crutches caused so much pain and I tried using padding and every thing. nothing worked but with the help of this.video I realised that my hand pad was 2 low and by correcting that I have had no further discomfort wish I knew that 3 weeks ago. thanks for all the help
The urgent care doctor I saw gave me no information on if I should put weight on my ankle. All I was given was a boot. As it's extremely painful to walk, I got crutches for myself. This was very informative.
This is so helpful! Especially the stairs. Thank you!
Thank you. I just sprained my ankle (grade three) and are going to be on crutches for over two months, and I was a little bit confused about how to use them, especially on our stairs. I'm not supposed to put any weight on it, and I am going to have an ankle brace on, and I really needed help with this. Thank you!
This is amazing. Never would've figured out how to get up and sit back down again so well.
God bless this video! Really helped alot! The physiotherapist taught me the wrong thing!
You shown on the segment ' How do I stand up' just like how you demostrate. I underwent Calcaneum ORIF on my right feet. so I have only left leg to hold my weight. The therapist demo me positioned the crutches on my left side before getting up. And I tried following you position it on my right side, its more efficient.
Thank you!
I appreciate this. I. 4' 11.5" tall and the crutches I have only go down to 5 2. I need shorter ones. This helped me figure it out. I'm hoping that makes using crutches a little easier.
Thank you - very helpful. Now I've seen how to use crutches I'm hoping my armpits will hurt less than my broken foot!
this is a great demonstration, I was given crutches and I had to learn to use them/ measure them on my own.
This is the first time i have to use crutches because of a injury in soccer and this video helped me allot
Glad it was helpful!
thanks you saved me !! i was doing it all wrong i had my surgery of knee i tore my acl :( This was excellent and easy to follow.
thanks
Thanks so much for making this video, the one thing they forgot to teach me where I got my crutches was how to get up and down. They showed me how to walk , Which was fine. You should've seen what I was doing before this video. To get up from a seated position I was grabbing the top of the crutches and pulling myself up , something like some sort of iron -cross maneuver on the rings. Pretty funny and not very safe. Thanks again
This was an informative demonstration,, I will have a bunion surgery soon wish me a good luck
Thanks you very much Lisa i hope you the best things, My first time using crutches i just got tendon teared up in my foot and i can't walk normally, at first my armpit just got fucked up but after this video i learned how to walk.
Thank you so much, everyone tried to teach me how to use the crutches ... total failure until I saw your video. God bless you
Why didn't they show me this at the hospital? My armpits and palms hurt so bad.
You guys made my college days delightful now
Good video. I have never used crutches before yesterday and my armpits hurt. I knew I wasn't using them correctly.
Really helpful! Broke a bone in my foot during 2020 pandemic. No time to show me how to use crutches at ER understandably.
i have 2 get knee surgery and i was soo nervous because i'm about to start school and i was scared on wat i'm goin to do for the school bus stairs.. but this made me feel better!!
Thanks a ton ma'am. I just broke my ankle. It helped me. 🙏
Thank you for this video-- just had foot surgery and released without the crutches being fitted or even ensuring I knew how to use them!! Looking forward to receiving and venting on the patient survey.
Regardless, I feel so much better now that I know how to get around.
Always thank all your doctors for their lack of interest in this crutch training problem. If you need help, see a Physical Therapist! I fired my doctor when he insisted I NOT see a P.T. clinic nearby. He only said, "Well, if all you want is to fix the pain, OK....." Hmmm, that was THE reason I went to him at all. Duuuh.
Thanks for the video.
I fractured my ankle & at the urgent care, they just gave me crutches and had me sign a form. They didn't teach me how to use them or anything.
Good advice. I had to learn all this the hard way.
4:29 I just sit on my ass and work my way down lol
Thank you this video helps for a presentation I am going to use for school
Very helpful - particularly the stairs and standing up. Thanks!
I just broke a bone for the first time, and this video helped!!!!
This video was informative and helpful. Thank you
Glad it helped!
I don't have crutches but I may be getting them on Saturday so this video was very helpful in telling me what I'll need to do if I get them. (fell and landed on my knee badly. can't actually walk if any1 is wondering )
Hi I recently dislocated my knee and have to use crutches how do I sit at a desk without falling over
Extremely helpful. Thank You!!
Thanks for the video!! I have never used crutches before. I have posterior tibial tendonitis in my right foot and it hurts like hell.
Thank you so much!! I hurt a tendon or ligament in my ankle and have to use crutches, and had no idea how.
Very useful and helpful info thank you very much
When I have something to carry across a room, and I have my crutches with me, I just put the crutches in one hand, put one thing in my other and hop over to where I'm going. If I've already got a spot, and the thing(s) I'm getting isn't too far away, I just leave my crutches there and hop to get the things and bring them back. With unsealed drinks, I can only say to hop carefully or have someone else carry it. Sometimes people offer with other stuff. If you're not sure about it, take the offer.
yesterday i hurt my foot coming down from my bunk bed i went to the er and i had a sprain and i had to use cruches (wich ive never done) thatnks for the help this helped a lot
Glad it helped!
Do you mind if i used this video in my school presentation??
This was so helpful. Going up and down steps I just hoped one by one down and crawled up them.
Glad it helped - Lisa really knows how to explain this to it's helpful to everyone!
at 3:17 you said swing the affected first but the video shows you advancing the unaffected first...could you clarify please how it is possible to advance the affected first. tx
I had to simplify the stairs thing for the sake of remembering: when going down it's CRUTCHES first. When going up it's FOOT first.
Being my 1st time on crutches at age 60+ I also had to learn to make a WIDE base and GO SLOW when 1st starting out. I actually fell once and slightly bent one of my aluminum crutches because I hadn't quite got the hang of which goes 1st going up. 🙄
I just broke my ankle on monday..the back part of my foot still hurts with the stint, not to mention I broke the "Good side" so my left side is weaker..I think I may be doing it wrong though but I'm following this vid.
thanks alot, this was very useful. i got my crutches off the store with no guidance at all on how to use them :P used to lean all the weight on my armpits at first and it was very painful haha.
I just broke my foot and I'm having trouble like when I walk one step i stomp the non injured foot how do I stop from doing that?
Shot myslef above by right knee cap thanks for the help
Thank you for the video. I've never used crutches before and I'm 40.
Oh my goodness, thank you. This was so helpful!
@NebraskaMedCenter thanks for your message. Do you have any clips on how to get in and out of a car? I've not had any success finding clips to help me.
This is AMAZING. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
This is very much helpful
My little brother broke his leg while playing basketball during school and I’m afraid this gonna be a huge struggle for him I don’t know if he gonna use crutches or a wheelchair to help him move around
I am new to use crutches because my left foot got injured and painful. But I still have no idea how to use crutches properly and I oftenly lose balance. So I looking for some videos on UA-cam.
This was a bit helpful. I broke the Fifth Metatarsal in my left foot 2 days ago and went to a UPMC Urgicare Center where they sent me home in an ace bandage and boot. They gave me paperwork to see an Orthopedic Surgeon for realignment and to have a cast put on, along with a set of crutches I don't know how to use. These things are jamming in my arm pits forcing me to crawl around my house to look for my cane. Now how do I use this without sprawling out on the floor? My foot is black and blue now with my toes red. I feel like yanking the bandage off and stuffing my foot in an ice bucket cause I had to put full weight on it to cook food and do other things.
ThaNk YOU SO MUCH THIS IS GONNA HELP ME A L OT MY CAMPUS IS HUGE AND I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA BUST MY ASS TRYING TO GET TO MY CLASSES BLESS YOU
well this is so informative, thank you very much!
Happy it helped out!
I have mild scfe and am going in for surgery soon should i walk no weight till surgery
Mine were fitted wrong... Thank you for helping me realize this.
If I cannot bend my knee (ACL broken- just perform me a surgery), what would be the way to walk properly with crutches? thanks in advance
Thank you! Clear and helpful.
What bears the weight when walking? My armpits hurt after a few steps. My arms cannot support my weight for more than a few steps. Trying to take the weight off the good leg to move it forward makes me do a hopping motion, which makes the good leg hurt too after a few steps.
i broke my ankle quad racing and it sucks im in the fiberglass cast then in june i get it off then the walking boot if the xray look good if not back in the hard cast again how to i judge 25 percent of wieght on my foor then 50% then 75 % then 100%. hope you can comente back
Thanks for sharing this. Keep on doing great work.
Thanks - hope the video helped!
When can I use crutches? I'm already a month after the accident. minor tibia fracture
I fricken broke my ankle yesterday and now im gonna need crutches thanks for the help
how can you go upstaris/downstairs with no handels?
+Nebraska Medicine my calf muscle is broken...right now im using a knee immobilizer........any other suggestions? & when i stand i feel a lot of pressure on my leg like blood ruhing through is it normal :(
btw thanks this video helped alot for my movement with crutches
I have been using crutches for a month now. And my right elbow is starting to hurt, I am not sure if it is because i am somehow bending my arms a weird way? Am I not supposed to push up with my arms? Or?
Thank you so much.
Very helpful. Thank you
They keep slipping out of my arm I'm doing everything right. Maybe to much force with my arms or to big of steps?
I never thought I’d look a video on how to use crutches, but here I am.