Strengthening Exercises to Get Arms Ready to Walk with Crutches

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HealthWiki > Disabled Village Children > Chapter 42: Range-of-Motion and Other Exercises > Strengthening Exercises to Get Arms Ready to Walk with Crutches

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EXERCISE SHEET 6

OBJECTIVE These exercises help make your arms stronger so that you can walk with crutches.

Sit like this and lift yourself up with your arms.	Go up and down until your arms are so tired you cannot lift yourself another time.
	Note: If the child’s arms are too short to lift himself up on open hands, he can use his fists.
It is better to use bricks or books to lift yourself higher.

and not like this.
Try to lift yourself with your elbows out, like this,
To practice for using crutches, make “handgrips.”	Or use a sawed-off crutch.	Or you can do these exercises in your wheelchair.
— pulley	Weight lifting. Increase the weight little by little as the arms get stronger.

Do these exercises 3 or 4 times a day. Every day try to lift yourself more times without resting, until you can do it 50 times.

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