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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 childâs arms are too short to lift himself up on open hands, he can use his fists. |
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It is better to use bricks or books to lift yourself higher. |
and not like this. |
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Try to lift yourself with your elbows out, like this, | ||
To practice for using crutches, make âhandgrips.â | 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.
This page was updated:04 Apr 2024