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Reasons Why the 4th of July Should be No Different on Crutches
So you landed yourself on crutches. You might feel a bit less excited about many part of the summer months, including the 4th of July holiday. But the good news is, there are many reasons why your 4th...
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5 Tips for Preventing Running Injuries and Crutches
If you are a runner, you know a lot of things can go wrong when you’re out there. You could twist an ankle if you step into a hole. You could strain something for pushing yourself too hard. You...
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Reasons to Use Modern Options to Crutches
There are many reasons that people use crutches to get around. Crutches have been around for thousands of years and they allow people to take the weight off an injured area of their body. Many...
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Find People Who Understand life on Crutches! Join The Community!
Your family is doing everything they can to help you through your recovery, really they are! But your non-weight bearing time is hard and your family doesn’t understand what it’s like to be you right...
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Be a Kid Again: Ditch the crutches get a Knee Scooter!
The years pass and suddenly you are looking over your children wondering when you became the adult. Kids have such a carefree way of living and as an adult, it’s hard to get back to that type of...
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Making the Mobility Decision after Breaking Your Foot or Ankle
You make decisions every day. What should you eat? What are you going to wear? What projects will you tackle next? Some of those decisions affect you for an hour and others come into play for the...
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How to Dress When Dealing with a Leg in a Cast
Once you get the cast on your leg, you might wonder how you are going to do a number of different things while you recovery. Some of them are very basic while others are complicated. You will find...
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How to Tell You Might Need Foot or Ankle Surgery
If you are not a doctor, you will never know for sure whether or not you need surgery because of the pains you have been having in your foot. However, if you are in pain, it is good to know what you...
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The Boy on the Knee Scooter at an Amusement Park
My name is Brooke Williams and you may have noticed that I write quite a few blogs for Goodbye Crutches. I normally write the blogs from a different perspective, but today, I have to make it more...
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How to Throw a Kid’s Birthday Party When Mom's on Crutches
So you’re on crutches for the next several weeks or longer. That doesn’t mean that the world stops revolving. Your child’s birthday will still come. And you still want to do everything you can to make...
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5 Nutrition Tips for your Surgery Recovery
Nutrition seems like a complicated subject, but when you are recovering, it is just as important as many other elements of your recovery process. You need to have a healthy diet in order to allow your...
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3 Biggest Questions about Recovering from Achilles Surgery
When you injure yourself or have to have Achilles Tendon surgery, you can’t let life completely stop. The fact of the matter is that no matter what is happening with you, the world keeps turning. And...
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From Non-Weight Bearing to Partial Weight Bearing after Foot Surgery
When you injury occurred, you knew there would be many different steps to the recovery process. First, you had to keep all your weight off your injured leg. In order to do so, you might have used...
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4 Ways to Get Around without Using your Broken Big Toe
When you walk in to work on a normal day, you don’t even think about the fact that you are walking with ease. You swing your arms, move your legs, and push yourself off with your toes. When any one...
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Non-Weight Bearing Fitness Ideas after Achilles Injury
If you are an active person, one of the worst things you can do is injure yourself and take one of your legs out of commission. When your doctor tells you that you cannot bear any weight on one leg,...
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7 Best Ways to Recover from Foot Surgery
When you have foot surgery, you need to understand that not all foot surgeries are the same. The things that you need to do in your recovery process might be different than the next guy or gal. This...
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12 Tips for Cooking on Crutches
When your family’s hungry, they’re hungry. Whether or not you are on crutches does not matter. The tummy rumblings have begun. And while you might get away with freezing some meals to help you past...
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10 Tips for Traveling on Crutches
When your vacation hits and you have to deal with packing, traveling, and enjoying the vacation while in the non-weight bearing status, you may find that it’s all a bit too much to handle. Use these...
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10 Best Ways to Recover from Bunion Surgery
When you have to have bunion surgery, you know you are in for a recovery. But that does not mean that the process has to be any harder than necessary. And if you follow these tips, the recovery...
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4 Ways to Help Your Child Stay in the Game...on Crutches
Your child's worst nightmare has come true. He has an injury that has taken him off one leg...and out of his favorite sport. Though our child is on crutches this year and unable to participate in...
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