Advice needed on use of crutches?
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Hi, could you lovely people advise me how long you used your crutches for?
I am 6 weeks post op and I am happily on the mend!
I never used my crutches around the house on my return from hospital, mainly because I only have a little house, I think I would have been more at risk of using them indoors!!
whenever I have been out since I have used my crutches, but using them less and less now.
however I have found when doing a shop at the local supermarket by the time I get to the checkout, I feel exhausted and in pain again?
I don't know if I should still be using them?
I have another week to go before I have my post op consultation with the hospital, obviously I will ask their advice when I go?
but I just wondered if you could share with me when you felt ready to part with the crutches?
Thanks
Pauline.
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i just had my first physio today at 16 days after and I mentioned to my physio that I did not use the crutches indoors now.
he watched me walking up and down with and without crutches and then told me that I was developing a slight limp without them. His advice was use one around the flat and two when I go out for the next couple of weeks and hopefully that will correct it.
it may be that you have developed a similar trait without noticing and that is why you are getting sore and tired.
as far as when to stop using crutches is concerned, I don't know the answer myself but I'm guessing it's different for everyone according to their healing rate.
Schumacher13 johnros
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nice to hear from you! Thank you for sharing your experience with me.
Since I posted the question I have come on in leaps and bounds!! I feel ready to send the crutches back now!! I am just over 7 weeks post op now
and feel so much better! I am making myself go for a little walk each day and gradually increasing how far I walk.
Still getting some pain but nothing like I was a few weeks ago! If someone had said I would be feeling like this a few weeks ago I wouldn't have believed them!!!
Still got a long way to go yet but relieved there is light at the end of the tunnel!
Pauline.
johnros Schumacher13
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when I came back from physio, I got my brother to drop me off at my local shop (it's about quarter of a mile from home) It took me 25 minutes to walk home on my crutches and I was sore for about an hour after but icing it helped and I got to feel a sense of achievement too.
next target, walk there and back.
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