The elderly crutches choice method

Stand on a flat floor with your hands hanging down and stand at attention. Measure how far the skin on your wrists extends to the floor, which is the ideal length for a cane.

Crutches or not

See the old man on crutches, few people will object, on the contrary, if someone object to the old man on crutches, may not be normal.

Treat crutches, elderly friends to hold a word "shen" :

1. Try not to use crutches if you are not too old and can move easily. Often found that some old people are very healthy, hand also "swagger" to pick up crutches. Why is it called "carry"? Because he doesn't really need it, but he has one, and when he holds it in his hand, he has a "don't use it for nothing" mentality.

This has two possible disadvantages:

The first disadvantage is psychological: with crutches comes dependence. Gradually, the activity of life will be poor, and old age will come quickly.

The second disadvantage comes from physiology: I know an old man who has never used crutches before he was 75 years old. Once he was hit by a bicycle on the road and his right leg began to feel uncomfortable. His daughter bought him a walking stick. So he leaned all his weight on his crutch, and gradually bent his back to one side of it, and soon became a stooping old man.

The long-lived elderly in the mountains rarely use crutches because of years of exercise. In fact, the knowledge of crutches and medicine, are valued in a word "cautious". Can not stand on crutches; It is the best policy to take no or little medicine.

2, the quality of crutches must be good, use to prevent cracking.

Crutches are manually controlled. Do not use any other part of your body for support. The quality of crutches is worrying. Therefore, to ask more, to choose the kind of easy to be damp and crack