This instructional video shows how to walk with crutches while putting partial weight on the injured leg. It's important to remember which leg goes first when walking with crutches partial weight-bearing. You will also learn how to use crutches properly when going up and down stairs, standing and sitting down.
To sit in a chair, back up until you feel the chair on the back of your legs. Place both crutches in the hand of your injured side. Hold your injured leg out in front of you as you reach back for the chair with your other hand. Lower yourself slowly to the chair bending at your hips. Do the reverse to stand back up.
When you walk with crutches, it is important that you keep the crutches under your arms and close to your sides. Squeeze the top of the crutches into your sides while putting weight on your hands and not through your armpits. Do not lean on the crutches with your armpits.
Move the crutches forward six to 12 inches. Push down on the handgrips as you step forward with your injured leg. Put the designated weight on your injured leg. Then, step through with your healthy leg. The injured leg always steps through first before the healthy leg. The sequence of how to walk with crutches properly is: crutches forward, injured leg forward, then step through with the healthy leg.
To go upstairs, begin close to the bottom step. Step up with your healthy leg first. Then, lift up the crutches, followed by the injured leg. Check your balance before you continue. If there is a sturdy handrail available, you can place both crutches under one arm and use the handrail with the other. Remember, step up with the good foot first and then the crutches. Lastly, the injured foot or leg follows.
When going down stairs with crutches, start at the edge of the step, keeping your hips beneath you. Place your crutches on the lower step. Your injured leg goes down next. The healthy leg is last. Check your balance before you continue. Make sure you bend at the hips and knees to prevent leaning forward, which could cause you to fall. If there is a sturdy handrail available, hold both crutches under one arm and use the handrail with the other arm. Place the crutches on the lower step. Your injured leg goes down next, and the healthy leg is last.
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I remember once when one afternoon the Holy Spirit pressed upon me to take a second long-sleeve shirt to prison when going there for ministry. It seemed like a very odd request. I did not understand the request, but by this time in my faith journey, I just started doing what the Holy Spirit told me to do. I certainly did not need an extra shirt.
When you are obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit, He will never let you down wherever He leads you. It may be something quite small, just be obedient in that small thing. As you go on with God, the more obedient you are, the more He will ask of you. Listen to the Holy Spirit and let yourself be led by God.
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Paul, as I read this today I thought of my youngest son, Christopher whom tried to take his life several years ago. That night the Holy Spirit rose in me like never before. Saying to my eldest son something is terribly wrong either you go to Christopher or I am. Rocco went to him immediately, the Holy Spirit saved Christopher that night! Christopher Believes God abandon him and still struggles to this day. God created him, saved him and I believe with all my heart one day he will use him for His Glory. Praying endlessly that Christopher finds his way back and becomes a living testimony to others what our Awesome God has done in his life. There would be no greater gift . Thank you do much Paul for sharing your love of God and His Word. ?
Kim, we have a mighty God and His guiding Holy Spirit with us. Prayers for your son, that the light of Christ would shine upon him and he would walk in the life of hope and peace that Jesus came to give to anyone willing to go to Him. I am convinced that the Word is true and the Word says nothing is impossible for God. I pray accordingly.
Such good thoughts to keep in the centre of our will. Will I heed? Will I keep the fear of the Lord all the day? Great story and wisdom-loaded admonition, with the usual encouraging sense of the Word, Paul.
Thanks for the reminder to not second guess our mindset as we invite His loving lordship to be clear in us.
Thank you, Tanis. This night came to mind as I was thinking of different things that have happened over the past years. I learned a great thing that night, though I need to be reminded of it, that the Lord is always sovereign and His plans are not always evident to us.
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Thank you for the vivid colors of spring in the gardens. Walking along the pathways of The Grotto, I am in awe of your creation. Here, in the peaceful retreat, I truly sense your presence in all of nature.
Bless this sanctuary for another 100 years. May millions more feel welcome here. May The Grotto continue to be a place of peace and consolation for all.
Thank you for always being there for us, protecting and defending us from danger and harm. When we are united with you, we stand, but when we are divided and separated from you, we surely fall. Keep us united with you and each other in your love and friendship.
Thank you for this beautiful sanctuary, a place where one can experience the exquisit blend of art and nature. Bless the artists who, over the course of a century, have given us these amazing pieces of art. Remind me to look all around and notice the beauty all around me.
Every day I amazed by the wonder of your creation. There is beauty in everything, in every sense. Remind me to slow down when I speed ahead, so I may experience each moment to its fullest. Allow me to stop and take it all in, in every sense. Every smell, every sound, every touch. Thank you for this amazing gift. May I remember to tread lightly on your sacred grounds.
We pray today that you send your Holy Spirit to all believers that we may grow closer to you and your will. May the Holy Spirit guide us in all truth. With the help of the Holy Spirit, may we become witnesses of your love everywhere we go. May the Holy Spirit shape us into who you want us to be a pure reflection of your love in the world, where peace may abide forever.
We welcome you today, O Holy Spirit, into our hearts. We pray that you dwell in our hearts forever to guide our steps, our thoughts, minds, and our attitudes to the will of God. Enable us to do His will all the days of our life. With your presence in our life, may we please God in all we say and do.
Thank you for the world around me, and the glorious rainbow of colors which surround me. Give me the grace to always tread lightly and appreciate this beautiful home, and continue to enjoy its spectacular array of colors.
Thank you for the beauty of a body of water. Thank you for the nourishment of fresh water. Thank you for the melodic sounds of running water. Thank you for the tranquility that washes over me when I am in the presence of water.
You who were miraculously healed by the hand of the crucified Christ, pray to the Lord for the sick: so that their infirm and weak bodies may recover health and vigor, and their uncertain and afflicted souls may find again peace, serenity and confidence.
I entrust to you, Blessed Mother of God, and my Mother all my hopes, my consolations, all my trials and miseries, my whole life; that all my thoughts, my words, and my deeds may constantly reflect the goodness and Love of your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
O Blessed Saint Joseph, who felt the worry and sorrow of a parent along with Blessed Mary, your spouse and the Mother of Jesus, when the child Jesus was lost in the Temple in Jerusalem: protect our dear children now and always.
May you, O Blessed Joseph, foster father of Jesus, be their special foster father with God and Mary in heaven. Let our children, like Jesus, grow healthily in age, wisdom, and grace before God and all creation!
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