Basic Crutch & Cane Training

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Crutch & Cane Training is important to help normalize patients gait, protect, surgical sites, improve their function and mobility. It is your job as aides to monitor patients and make sure that they are suing them appropriately. Your Physical Therapist will always be there to help and guide the patient as well but these principles should be used all the time.

Knowing the status of weight bearing for the patient is important.

Doing stairs with crutches and canes can be disconcerting to patients. Remember up with the good and down with the bad. Make sure that the assistive devices always move with the affected leg to get it protected. Always be with a patient when they doing stairs to ensure that they do not fall.

Using a cane and a single crutch are very similar but using a different assistive device.

FWB - Full weight bearing
WBAT - Weight bearing as tolerated
PWB - Partial weight bearing (expressed as a %)
TTWB - Toe-touch weight bearing.