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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Gonna be the most (laughs) famous
physical therapists on the internet.
You threw me off Brad.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about
the safest and easiest crutches to use.
We got top five reasons.
Crutches can be difficult to use and actually dangerous.
- [Brad] Sure.
- You see people sometimes slip with them
or they kind of kick out.
So this guy who invented these crutches
tried to keep all these issues in mind
when he went basically from the tip,
all the way to the top, so-
- And he spent many, many hours on crutches
as a child. - That's what he said
when he was younger, yup.
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So typical crutch,
we're going to show you the difference between,
this is a standard crutch,
and these are Sport Swings.
And we're going to show you why.
They made some ergonomic adjustments
that we think are really quite handy
and safe. - Yup, they're unique
and I think this could be
the way of things to come with crutches.
- That's right, so let's start out.
We're going to start on the bottom, Brad.
- Yup.
- Isn't that crazy.
- Work our way up.
- So look at what they have here.
The typical crutch has just a small tip.
Look at the difference between these two.
Now let's give
a little contrast here. - Looks like the bottom
of a foot here.
- [Bob] Yup and this looks like...
I saw one video I thought was pretty funny,
he said this looks like a baby bootie that you (laughs).
So you're putting all your weight
and you're trusting that this little bootie
is gonna grip and grab the ground.
As opposed to, look at the large surface you have here.
- Yours is purple, that's kind of nice,
But this is all rubber and you can see its traction,
and its got little knobbies on there,
like you'd have on a bottom of sneaker
to grip into the floor and it acts...
- It acts like a foot. - Like an ankle joint.
- Yup, you hit on the heel first,
you hit here and then it go right onto the forefoot.
- So this is, in ice or snow or mud,
this thing's gonna give you a lot more assistance.
So, by the way, they have it right and left,
so you know which side is which.
- And the reason that's
important, - Right, left.
- (laughs) Yeah.
Is because the grips are ergonomically fitted to the hand.
If you have them on the wrong side,
they won't fit your palm the way they're suppose too.
- Yeah, I'll get to that
just in one moment. - Oh, I'm sorry.
- I wanna mention one more thing.
So this design also, with the bottom,
reduces some of the shock absorption
that you get when you're putting the crutch down
and taking the forces through the,
what would be a kind of ground impact force
going up through the crutch - Right,
and this may not sound like much
but, if you're on these all day long,
it all adds up.
- Yeah it's gonna be a lot less stress
going up into the body.
So, now, the typical grip is like this, its round,
and the problem with that is it can spin on you.
Yeah, show that Brad.
- So it spins like this and you can allow your wrist,
it puts more strain...
Oh, Lonnie's zooming in on the wrist.
And the wrist muscles, and the joint as well,
where the ergonomic grip allows the wrist to relax,
and it spreads the force out into the palm,
which is a real nice idea.
Oops.
But again, that's why you have to have
the right with the right,
so you get this grip design where it needs to go.
- Especially if you're non-weightbearing on one side,
and you're taking a fair amount of force
through your hands and wrists,
You're gonna find out this is really a lot more comfortable.
- Yep, that's gonna be nice on the hands.
You know what?
They fit right in, you don't even really have to grip.
- Yeah, you have a natural V of your hand and so it's,
no matter what the size of your hand,
you have a V like this,
and its going to fit well.
- Yup, right into the palm.
- The other thing, they have a wider frame.
- Oh yeah. - Can you show
that on that one Brad?
- Sure, we got that frame here
and you can see how this frame...
- [Bob] Maybe flip it around the other way.
You can see it that way too.
- [Brad] Yup.
- [Bob] So with a wider frame,
you're gonna be able to fit your hand in there,
especially if someone has
a little wider hand. - Right.
- It's gonna be comfortable,
it's not gonna hit the sides of the frame,
it's not gonna be a source of irritation there too.
So then they also ergonomically designed
the axillary pad to fit best
and to transmit lower forces into the armpit.
- So the axillary pad is the armpit,
right up in here,
It's cushioned.
Although when you use crutches, you're not supposed to
bear your weight through your armpits.
- But almost everybody does (laughs)
and that's what they were claiming.
And, if you're going to, this will be a lot less stress.
In fact, they said it went from 45 pounds
on a crutch like this,
down to 10 pounds on this crutch.
And the thing is, this also, the way it's designed,
you get some really sharp forces right here and right here.
- Well, yeah, you can see it when you take the pad off.
- Yeah, when you take it off. Yeah, look at it.
- This is hard plastic and then they put a cushion on there
and granted there are different cushions
that you can modify and stuff for those too,
but these shouldn't need that.
- Right, so the last little design character they added
was they added this thing called the SwingLink.
So you can see this right here
and this kind of snugs the crutches in
and gives you like a little hug while your walking,
and it also prevents the crutches from slipping as easy.
because they stay in place.
- And you can see mine, I have it disconnected now,
and we were talking that this is probably
for just using the short distances.
You may not want
to use them. - Yeah I would not
use the link for long distances around the house,
I mean, I would not use the link
for short distances - There you go (laughs).
- There we go.
Around the house.
I would use it if your in the mall or something like...
Do kids still go to the mall?
I don't even know. - I don't even know
if malls exist anymore (laughs).
No, they do. - (laughs) But if
they go somewhere and they know they're gonna
be going on a long trip, this is a great thing to do.
'Cause there's a little bit of difficulty to get into.
If you're non-weightbearing on one side here,
it's difficult to get this around like this.
But you can have someone help you,
if you know that you're gonna be going on a long trip.
- Yeah, so its an option.
- And you can see how it sticks there,
it fits right inside there
and it gives me a comfortable hug.
- And they're like typical crutches.
You can adjust 'em.
You don't need a wrench or anything there,
just with your fingers,
and it's a snap to adjust that.
And you have to adjust the top part and the lower part.
And once you get it adjusted, you're done.
- Generally, you adjust it so that you adjust the top part
so that you have just a slight bend,
like 15 degrees of the elbow
and still have room underneath the arm.
- Yup, two or three fingers in.
- And that's how you're going to adjust the full length too.
They even show it on video Brad,
even having it upside down like this
and seeing how it hits right here.
And adjusting it that way.
So you can do it right here
and then try it underneath your arm.
There's always a little bit of
play for - Variation, mm-hmm.
- variation for comfort.
So really cool crutches.
Thank you for sending them to us.
We'll use them with some patients,
I'm sure sometime, right?
- Yeah, they're called Dynamo.
A lot of times people have crutches
by the time they come to us but...
- Yeah, they're made by Dynamo, I believe,
but we'll have a link below. - Sure, you bet.
- That you can jump into them.
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
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