“A great idea. I'm preparing for an ankle operation, but it's sadly not suitable for me with balance and back problems. I have tried it, and would recommend anyone else to try it, because I think it would be great for most people, but I'm just not strong enough to trust myself with my balance issue.”
“I am currently giving only 4 out 5 stars for the following reasons. I think the knee crutch is absolutely brilliant although it is quite tough to build without a bit more brute strength than I have. Nevertheless, I managed it. I am not sure I have the measurements right, it is quite difficult to work out whether a small adjustment might improve things further and I am seeing a physio on Thursday. I would like a pro o watch me walk in it because I think it might still need adjusting - I find the adjusting pretty hard on the hands too but maybe it just needs WD40. It is very quick and easy to get used to and totally transforms being stuck on one leg as compared with crutches or anything else. My main question over it is whether it would not be possible to have slightly more size tailoring in manufacture - the crutch at one size fits all obviously needs to be pretty solid for a 6'6", 250 pounder or whatever the highest weight is, I am reasonably tall at about 5'8" but weigh a bare 120 lbs and I feel I would, in an ideal world, be better with a bit less weight in the crutch - I think so long as the balance was right with enough weight in the foot, the rest of the structure could be made of lighter weight metal or varying weights, at least getting as far as a small, medium and large. I am not sure I would enjoy walking too far in this especially on rough ground with a lot of ups and downs and yet I am quite sure someone altogether bigger would have no problem with it at all. I am generally fit and quite strong but just not that heavy and the crutch is. Anyway it is an amazing step forward, literally, in possibilities for people with non weight-bearing injuries. I shall be wearing it to go for a plaster change at the Wellington hospital in London next week where they have a major rehab centre and will highly recommend it to anyone who is interested included my surgeon who solely works on ankles - they currently offer knee wheel chairs or crutches only and the knee wheels obviously require hands for moving plus are only marginally more manoeuvrable than the office chair which I have previously used for the same purpose. I am very glad I found the knee crutch a the point I was trying to do things with 2 hands and lost my temper. The 4 stars, as said, are purely a question of the one size fits all so far as weight.”
