Stick

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Hi everybody, hope you are as well as can be?

Hoping to get some advise. I need to buy a stick, use a crutch now and again when out but told by physio that a stick would be better!

With all your experience, that have you found best for price, look etc. need one that folds.

Thanks in advice.

Mel xx

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hi tabitha

i’m surprised that your physio told you that sticks are better.

elbow crutches are said to give more stability.

if you are buying a stick make sure it is the right height for you.

my stick wasn’t and i ended up with my hips being out of alignment.

had a few sessions with an osteopath to sort it.

good luck and are you going to bling it up?

carole x

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hi,

i’ve found using a crutch really awkward, a stick seems to work better for me. years ago i was given one by a physiotherapist, don’t know how common this is?! it’s a folding one with an ‘anatomically shaped’ handle, i found this on line:

www.walkingsticksonline/new/folding_anatomical_walking_sticks.php

they look similar.

wendy x

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Try a hiking pole with a rubber ferrule on the end. Not quite so dispiritingly ‘old lady’, and folds away reasonably well (although not as well as the neater of the foldable walking sticks)

Alison.