After your amputation, you will need to learn how to transfer safely.
Being more active is a key part of heart attack prevention. It helps your heart muscle and the rest of your body get stronger. It also helps control other heart risks.
As you heal after knee replacement, you may use crutches to help you walk.
Transferring means moving between two surfaces (such as a bed and a wheelchair). Safe transferring is crucial to preventing falls. The type of transfer you will use depends on your overall health and strength. This sheet will describe one type of transfer using a transfer board.
A cane helps you get around on your own. Many different canes are available. Here are some tips for how to use a cane safely.
When climbing up and down steps using crutches, remember this rule: Up with the good (unaffected leg) and down with the bad (affected leg). Read on for helpful tips and illustrations.
Follow these instructions for safely getting in and out of the bathtub or shower when you use a walker.
If your loved one will use a wheelchair, you need to know about transfers. For safety's sake, learn how to help your loved one in and out of the wheelchair. One basic method is shown here.
Proper fitting helps you use your crutches safely. When fitting crutches, stand up straight and wear the shoes you will normally use to walk.
Learn how to use your crutches safely.
Learn how to fit and use your cane safely.
Learn how to use your walker safely.
Using a cane can help you with balance as you regain strength and mobility after surgery, illness, or injury. Many different kinds of canes are available. Read on to learn more.
To use your walker, you need to learn a new way to walk (gait). Read on for helpful tips and illustrations.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around. A walker can help you when you sit down and stand up.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around. Use these directions to help you get through doorways with your walker. Stay away from revolving doors. Look for regular doors or disabled entrances instead.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around outside your home. Remember to step up with your good (uninjured or stronger) leg and down with your bad (injured or weaker) leg.
Your healthcare provider has prescribed crutches for you. Follow our step-by-step guide to using crutches.
"Your healthcare provider has prescribed crutches for you. A healthy leg can support your body weight, but when you have an injured leg or foot, you need to keep weight off it. Once you are told that you can put some weight on your leg, use a ""weight-bearing"" method of walking as the leg heals."
Tips to help you learn to use a prosthesis.
Learn how to use a walker after lower limb amputation.
Patients who cannot walk are taught to use wheelchairs. For safety, have the therapist show you the correct way to help someone out of a wheelchair.
Learning to walk with your prosthesis takes practice. To prevent falls, you may need a cane for balance and support.
Learn how to use your walker after hip replacement.
After knee replacement, you will learn how to use a walker.
These images show the use of crutches with swing to.
These images show crutch use with swing through.
These images show the use of crutches with step to.
These images show how to use crutches with step through.
These images show how to safely use stairs with crutches.
These images show how to sit safely with crutches.
These images show you how to safely stand up using crutches.
These images show you how to go through a door safely with crutches.
These images show you how to use a walker.
These images show how to use a walker.
These images show how to safely sit down with a walker.
These images show how to safely stand up using a walker.
These images show you how to go up and down curbs using a walker.
These images show you how to safely go through doors using a walker.
These images show cane use.
These images show you how to safely use a cane on stairs.
These images will show you how to safely sit down using crutches.
These images will show you how to stand using crutches.
These images will show how to safely sit using a walker.
These images will show you how to safely stand up using a walker.
Here are images showing how to get into a shower stall if you use a walker.
Here are images showing how to get into a bathtub if you use a walker.
Here are images showing how to pick a walker so that it fits you properly.
Here are images showing how to pick a cane that fits you properly.
Watch this video to learn how to do quad sets to strengthen your quad muscles.
Watch this video to learn how to do straight-leg raises to strengthen the leg, core, and hip muscles.
Watch this video to learn how to do ankle pumps to help prevent blood clots.
Watch this to learn an exercise program to help regain strength and function in your knee after a meniscus tear.
Watch this video to learn some exercises to help treat your knee arthritis.
After an ACL tear, performing home exercises can help you regain strength and function in your knee. Learn some exercises by watching this video.
Watch this to learn some exercises to help treat carpal tunnel syndrome.
Watch this to learn exercises to help treat your tennis elbow.
PRICE stands for Protection, Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. Doing these things helps limit pain and swelling after an injury.
Whatever your goals, your healthcare provider may advise that you see a physical therapist. They can help you reach your goals with a 3-stage rehab program. Read on for details.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your meniscus tear.
Movement is one of the best ways to treat back pain. Follow this exercise program to help you manage your pain, speed healing, and prevent future flare-ups.
Follow this exercise program to help decrease pain and improve function in your knees.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your ACL tear.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your ankle sprain.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your carpal tunnel syndrome.
Follow this exercise program to help decrease pain and improve function in your hips.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your iliotibial (IT) band syndrome.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your neck strain.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your peroneal tendonitis.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your rotator cuff injury.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your shoulder dislocation.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your snapping hip syndrome.
Follow this exercise program to help treat your tennis elbow.
Follow these exercises for the achilles tendon.
Follow these exercises for plantar fasciitis.
Follow these steps for golfer's elbow.
Follow these rehab exercises after a wrist sprain.
Follow these exercises for foot sprain (metatarsophalangeal joint).
Follow these exercises for frozen shoulder.
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