How To Use A Cane Properly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 เม.ย. 2013
- From famouspt.com/ "Famous" Physical Therapists, Bob Schrupp and Brad Heineck, demonstrate how to properly use a cane. This is good information designed to make your recovery speedy, pain free and to avoid injury of something else due to poor posture.
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Two doctors competing for camera time was actually funnier than I though it’d be. The louder one got, the louder the other got. They were screaming at each other at one point 🤣🤣🤣
WoW! Glad I checked up with you two. My intuition was wrong, and I started out on the incorrect side. Using the internet for correct information - what a concept. Thanks Guys!
Same. Its funny. All this knowledge at the tip of our fingers, yet still a novel concept to look it up! Im GenX. I learned by doing, never read instructions unless its technology, now here i am, finally researching how to use a cane cuz i need one, yet my dad had one all his life and i barely paid attention to it.
Im 51, had issues w my knees since my 20s when I used to run. Right knee was always far worse than the left. Well I'm heavier now, cartilage in R knee is gone, pain all the time. I also have bursitis in R hip and a slipped L5. My dad had a cane most of his life due to polio, then post polio syndrome. I never understood how the cane was best on the opposite side, yet i never researched it till I needed one. This video is excellent. It taught me proper height, proper side, and it taught me just what I needed to know as to the whys of each side. Thank you so much! I'll be using a cane properly now that I have seen this. Time to go cane shopping! I've seen beautiful ones at the pharmacy.
Thanks guys, I needed to see this because I honestly thought I had misread my product info (which I lost). I laughed at first at the thought of using the opposite side's arm, it really had me thinking hard, but IT WORKS! It is more steady, thanks man!
Gentlemen, thank you for this video. I dislocated my left kneecap in November, and I'm at a point now where I can begin to use my leg more normally, but I have been terribly afraid to move away from my crutches because of the way my leg just gave out in the initial injury. I just want to move around my house and get about my daily routine without pain. Thank you for helping me get my mobility back.
Thank you so much, this was very helpful. I was using my elbow crutch on my injured leg side, after I switched it, it was so much easier and less pain walking. THANK YOU!
WoW! Very helpful video! Thank You guys! 😊
I have Ehlers-Danlos, too. My hip doesn't stay in the joint. I hope to have more stability after learning from this video.
thank you guys for this video. aver 2 months ago I started having knee pain. I recently started using a brace my MD prescribed for me but at the end of the day my knee was still swollen and painful. especially in the mornings.
since no one gave me any instruction I was all over the place and fell down 2x because I was using it on the wrong side!!
thumbs up from me!! thank you!!
I have not yet witnessed better colleagues than both of you. Simply the BEST ❤
Oh, my goodness Bob and Brad you saved me again. I unfortunately might need to use a cane from time to time to help my left knee that now has mod/severe Osteoarthritis. I tore my Medial Meniscus and have a Leaking Baker's cyst since March 16, 2019. I am doing Cortisone/Lidocaine injections. I did Gelsyn3 injections last year in the Spring and I might do Supartz injections later this year perhaps. I have no cartilage in parts of my inner knee.💕
I wish more people would watch this, I get really tired of people telling me I'm using my cane on the wrong side. They usual site what they see in movies and TV. I was even accused of faking one time. The film industry does that for dramatic effect since someone using a cane properly can look like he has no problem at all.
ardvarkkkkk1 Yeah, everybody is a friggin' expert.
having hip replacement surgery. glad I watched your video. Thanks Guys.
Thanks! You would think that after teaching nursing students for a decade or so I would know how to use a cane-but as they say 'the cobbler's children have no shoes' I needed a visual while waiting (well, putting off) a knee replacement- who better to learn from but the most famous PT's on the Internet!
Thank you for the advice.
Thank you. Very informative.
You guys are awesome! Thank you for educating me.
VERY USEFUL INSTRUCTIONS.
lesion on my back, in a lot of pain and walking odd. This has helped, thank you.
Thank you so much .I thought I had heard it was the opposite side, you should use a Cain on but I wasn't sure.
it was quite helpful. Thank you
I was checking this video for my friend. I found the video to be very informative.
Very helpful! Thank YouS!
Thanks! I'm not very old LOL but I have MS and psoriatic arthritis in my knee and hip so this was VERY helpful!!
This is a good video How to walK w/crutches. I changed my surgey for my brand new knee
August 21, so have time to learn how to walk with crutches and a lot of other goodies, LO
Thank you SO MUCH. I have been trying to use a cane and I almost fell trying. Again, THANK YOU BOB & BRAD!
funny enough I'm 19 and I have to use my cane periodically for my Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. I don't have to use it all the time so I wasn't sure what the correct way to use it was. thanks!
Nikaela Sainz
Dude, same! I've got hEDS and need to use a cane too :)
Woah i also got eds.
Ayy EDS cane gang
thanks it was helpful 😀✌
Thank you! Just started using a came today. Hopefully just temporary. This video has been helpful.
Thanks guys! I appreciate the instructions, now I know :)
I thought I was using one crutch properly for an injured ankle. This proves it. Thanks for the information.
Good advice! I had my kneecap put back together after a fall. Using the cane like this was easier on me.
Thank you. Reviewing for NCLEX-RN and how quickly one forgets!
Tips from the ER brought me here
Thank you this was really helpful. What is the techniqie for using 2 canes to walk? My 90+ year old mother's doctor, has started to suggesting she walk with two canes.
I am doing it right! Glad you confirmed it!
One would think, it's just a cane. How difficult is it to use? Now having hip problems, I can tell you how much easier it is to use a cane right (your way). Tried it today and walked much further than I expected, without discomfort. Thanks for making this video!
My right leg is the bad leg. IfI use the cane on the right side I automatically lean that way and eventually I feel tension at the base of my neck. This tells me where some of the weighr is being transferred to. When I use the cane correctly - on my left side - my neck and spine stay straight. I can tell that some of the weight of the right leg is transferred to the left shoulder. I can walk pretty fast this way. Thank you for this video.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Great info, thanks! One question...after hip surgery (labral repair, femoral shaving) - is it better to use a cane or walker?
broke my left femur in june still recovering helped alot
Great suggestions, but camera did not allow enough of a view of your feet. Thanks so much!
THese guys are great.
Thank you
I'm getting my first cane due to balance issues. I have a neurological issue that causes muscle dystrophy. So I don't have one bad leg. Both legs are weakening. My doc says I might need a walker for long walks. But for like going to the doc and stuff, a cane should be enough
I use the cane on my right side because it's my dominant hand. I do use it in conjunction with my left leg when I walk.
Thanks for the video! I just had surgery on my foot and I have no idea how to use a cane
I’ll always have severe left knee pain and have been using a quad cane. Unfortunately my right shoulder was dislocated decades ago and was not treated appropriately and is excruciating. Any ideas on how to maintain some mobility?
I have ankylosing spondylitis, torn knee on my left side with multiple other issues and a bad hip socket on the right side. Would cane on the right still work okay without putting more pressure on my right hip? (Crutches aren’t an option due to coordination and balance issues as well as my spine)
I am 24 and I have a herniated disc in my lower back and hit hits my sciatic nerve and the pain is affecting my everyday life. It all started about a month after I had my daughter (who is 10 months now) around the time I went back to work as a cashier. At first I felt pain in my thigh and I thought maybe I had pulled something and that the pain would go away. It only got worse and worse and my entire right hip, thigh, calf, and even right down to my big toe hurt so bad throughout the day. Carrying my daughter is such a pain (literally) and it bothers me that I can't even carry my own kid without being in crippling pain. I can't sleep without tossing and turning all night. I changed positions at work to work in the accounting office which requires much less lifting and bending but the pain is still there. I wonder if walking with a cane would help as I find myself walking along furniture and the walls at home to hold on to. After months of pain I finally got an MRI to show that I have a herniated disc. I get bothered that people might think I'm taking it too far if I walk with a cane because my pain is more subjective (it's not an obvious broken leg, but just my own threshold of pain) but my daughter is only going to get bigger and heavier and I need some relief. Should I walk with a cane? Or would it make it worse? Or is it not necessary? I'm desperate (and starting physical therapy today finally) for some relief.
So if I'm not using the cane for balance but for support I can continue using it on the same side? I balance fine, what I need is weight taken off the injured leg.
I think it depends on your problem
I use it on right side for right foot. Can't use left arm.
It's for crps right foot, sometimes left foot
What if I have problems with both ankles?
How would I use a cane?
I have foot drop and arthritis
And I'm 54 yrs old and I also have mild CP
Thanks 😀
Second question: How do you use two canes going upstairs and coming down stairs? Thanks again.
I have left short leg due to right scoliosis, I ma using cane on my right side... am I right? Thank you>>>
So what would you suggest for a left torn miniscus
I have been using my cane and walking stick to help my balance. I tend to list to one side. The walking stick works better than the cane but isn't as welcome as the cane in public. Both seem to work best when held on the side I lose my balance. Is this because it isn't an injury, per se?
Are you going to review the posture cane?
Have you reviewed the "3rd foot "cane?
that house reference was great
Can you use a walking stick for hip bursitis.
What if you have pain on both sides? hips, knees and calfs. Is it going to require two canes?
Stewart gilchrest
I was released from the hospital 2 days ago and just prior to that release, I had two "therapists" instruct me of the proper way to use my cane. (injury was a femoral by-pass repair for an Aneurysm that was originally performed 18 years ago) They told me that the cane should always follow with the "good" leg. It didn't seem correct to me, and I expressed my logical conclusion. They repeatedly told me; "No, that is a common misunderstanding, let the cane move withe the good leg!". I am going to do it the way yourselves and many others have instructed: When the 'bad leg' advances, so should the cane held by the hand the on the 'good' side. Thanks for your video!
That said, should I inform the therapists at the hospital of their misinformation?
Steven Fitz
Steven Fitz It’s like life. There will always be some “expert” telling you what to do. Use your intuition about whose advice to take. And if it still doesn’t make sense, keep exploring and come to your own conclusions.
Thanks. I'm recovering from a ruptured achilles and almost ready to go from crutches to cane.
Does using a cane affect the joints in the arm that your holding it in
I have one as I'm 26 and I have arthritis in both of my knees
dr jo says to adjust the cane so it is the height of the hip ball joint. who to trust?
@Ryan Rafter
Me too
So I've broken my foot and during the seven weeks of healing the muscles of my calf and ankle have diminished. Now, do i take the cane on the involved side or do I better take the opposite one?
DeafKaliban
What about a cane being used for bilateral hip problems that cause generalized imbalance? I have chronic pain from arthritis and osteoporosis (ex-nurse) and have trouble walking. Also experiencing generalized weakness and have had multiple falls. I recently got a cane and am concerned that it will not help with my instability.
Any suggestions? Thanks for the video. I've worked in rehabilitation as a nurse, but now as the patient I am having issues. Part of which is memory decline...so any help would be appreciated.
I think we still have one that belonged to my mother. She was short and small also. Not sure what we have since I rarely am able to make it downstairs to the basement storage area. Will ask my husband to get it out for me to use. I tried using the cane, but still feel unstable. I have severe agoraphobia and social phobia so going out is more complicated for me than just physical issues. I hold onto my husband for both balance and because I experience disociation related visual hallucinations. But have been turned down for disability x2 so far. Life is dificult!!! Thank you!
I have two hips that are totally gone, bone on bone and both hips are going to be replaced. My question is simple, how do you use Two Canes? Thank you for this video I was using my canes incorrectly.
This is similar to the issues I am having...but I think I would be too clumsy to use two canes. I can't afford to see a dr. much less have surgery to replace my bone on bone hips (no insurance and waiting/praying to get disability approval). I have one cane that my husband just got me and it's a bit too tall, but will have to do. I usually just hold onto him for balance, but with his bad back it hurts him to have me hanging on him. Hope I can learn to use the one cane to help me with balance. Hope your surgery went well Mr. Quasus.
I am glad to see you demonstrate the support cane Please inform your audience that the long cane a blind person uses to find cracks in sidewalks, and curbs , obsticles in front of us and all kinds of stuff. indicating of our sight impairments. I was on the bus.I have a long cand with a ball tip, sometimes a marshmallow tip. That is for how it is used. A lady leaned on mine as if it were one of the support canes you use. She fell. I asked was she OK. but inside I felt what is the matter with her is she stupid? i was thinking I could have gotten sued for it. I called the services for the blind. I prefer the folding canes over the rigid.Please pass this on. I am 58. I knew since I was a child of white canes. I am ready for a tee shirt.I am not ashamed it is a utilitarian tool.
Thanks I was very uncomfortable walking with the cane.
23, I ordered a cane this week for my fatigue and knee pain. I'm excited to use it hopefully, it'll give me back some mobility!
I had a feeling I was doing it all WRONG, and I was RIGHT! 😅
My left knee is the issue. I don't feel comfortable using my right hand/arm.
My stepdad has a can and he struggles to use it. Its more like he just brings it along with him and doesn’t really use it to support his weight. He also struggles sitting down and getting up using the can. It almost falls over when he sits it down to get in his chair. Also its too far away from the chair to really help him up. He has VASCULAR dementia and doesnt want to use the kane. Mom badgers him to use it and is ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT HIM FALLING…
Dr. House reference 11 years ago?
Seems that your sound is not crip, but rather “echoey”. Otherwise good. Thanks.
Didn't they address this in a later episode of House? Somebody like a physical therapist told him he was doing it wrong and he basically tells them to go screw. If i remember correctly
Also i think he switches sides a few times in earlier episodes
Sure wish there was something similar for my back.
I've heard corsets help with back pain. I'm thinking of getting one at some point but man are they expensive!
Just use the cane on the side of your strongest arm.
Thanks, I broke my foot running from wasps, and right now I have my cast off, so..
***** Thanks
None of the YT vids I've watched on this topic so far will explain the reason for using the cane on the opposite side from the bad leg. Why is that? You don't know how to take the info you learned from your training about it & break it down to a simple way of explaining to someone w/o your training? I have a knee that buckles on me due to being bone-on-bone from osteoarthritis. If it buckles on me when the cane is moving with it, that means my good leg is behind me and can't help should the bad leg buckle. If the leg goes on me, then I will fall toward the direction where the leg buckled, right? The cane won't hold me up on its own if the involved leg buckles.
What about back pain
physicaltherapyvideo ok, thank you
I have the same cane lol
Polygenic
If you use it like you're walking with a cane on the opposite side of the net and if you need a refresher on that take a look at the video on how to walk with a c so let me dive in strain how to come down a set of stairs so what you're going to do is you want to hold on to the rail you're going to put the can down and you're going to leave down with your injured or weak foot first and then bring your good foot on down okay so go on to put the cane down on your bad foot down first1 more time here were going to come down first with the bad foot I now want to take a look at how to walk up the stairs so I innocently hand over here at the rail on the side it doesn't matter which side the canon just so we have some for one side of our body as we go up or down the stairs so what you're going to do when you're going up a lanyard tied on with a prussic knoy you can avoid lifting the cane completely the project not on your wrist will handle that
If you watch the show they address the fact house is using his cane wrong.
“Crip” should read “ crisp”.
I was told to have the top of the cane at hip-height.
No, wrist crease height as we show.
Thank you. I followed your advice yesterday; it'll take some practice but so far helps.
Rehearse rehearse
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audio sucks
omg!!!!! get to the friggin point already!!!
If you guys ever hurt your meniscus and can't put any weight on your knee at all, you'll change your tune as to which side you use your cane on. Go Doctor House! Using it on the opposite side does nothing to take the weight off of your knee or aid with the excruciating pain. It's the same side or stay in bed for weeks!
Too much banter!!
Just tell me I don't want a damn video
So if your right front tire blows you put two tires on the left right. This is the total opposite of how to use a cane. Wonder if either of these guys ever had to use a cane. I have used a cane for years and have a bad knee on the right ,I tried the Dr. advice and the "proper" way to use a cane , Total BS. . The cane works for me only on the injured side.
Oh that silly show is it???? A pox on you