Overview of walking aids: A walking aid is a device that allows elderly and sick people with leg and foot difficulties to wait for their legs and feet through the support of equipment
People who are inflexible or even lose their ability to walk can take care of themselves and go for walks like normal people. The use of assistive technology refers to the use of assistive devices for people with limited mobility, amblyopia, blindness, the elderly, and disabilities
A device that uses walking aids to assist the human body in supporting weight, maintaining balance, and exercising walking, providing effective rehabilitation exercises while ensuring patient safety. The information in the reference book is also similar, but I find these statements to be convoluted. Every time I read them, I have to brainstorm for a while. Let's simply understand them based on their purpose. Overview of walking aids: A walking aid is a device that allows elderly and sick people with limited mobility or even loss of walking ability to take care of themselves and go for walks like normal people, supported by equipment. The technology of using walking aids refers to the use of walking aids to assist the body in supporting weight, maintaining balance, and exercising walking for people with limited mobility, amblyopia, blindness, the elderly, and disabilities, while ensuring the safety of patients and obtaining effective rehabilitation exercises. The information in the reference book is also similar, but I find these statements to be convoluted. Every time I read them, I have to brainstorm for a while. Let's simply understand them based on their purpose. Function and indications
Main functions: (1) Maintain balance: For elderly people, those with non central dysfunction such as lower limb weakness, poor spasticity and extension of the lower limbs, and inability to balance center of gravity, but it has little effect on balance disorders in elderly stroke and multiple cerebral infarction patients. (2) Weight support: After hemiplegia or paraplegia, when the patient's muscle strength weakens or both lower limbs are unable to support weight or cannot bear weight due to joint pain, walking aids can serve as a substitute. Some books say that they are not suitable for use in hemiplegia,
It refers to the fact that ordinary frame walking aids are not suitable for use in hemiplegia. (3) Assistive walking: often use canes and canes. Due to the need to support the body, walking aids are safer than the above-mentioned aids. Therefore, when using walking aids in residential areas, it is necessary to slow down and move slowly. (4) Rehabilitation training: Practical aids commonly used in homework training and home rehabilitation training. Assessment: 1. Evaluate the patient's general condition, including height, weight, overall condition, and disease diagnosis. (2) Assess the patient's walking ability and limb mobility. (3) Assess patients' cognitive and cooperative abilities. 2. Evaluate the environment: whether the road surface is flat, reduce personnel walking, and the temperature is suitable.
The evaluation here is for walking aids, and is also applicable to single arm walking aids such as crutches, which are relatively simple. Height assessment: When standing upright and holding the handle of the walking aid, with the upper arm humerus perpendicular to the ground and the elbow joint flexed 15-30 degrees, the vertical height from the ground to the lower end of the wrist is the normal height for using the walking aid.
