How to Use Crutches | 2, 3, 4-Point Gait, Swing-To/Through, Stairs, Nursing NCLEX

Learn how to use crutches properly, as well as important nursing information for NCLEX, HESI, and ATI exams.

Assistive devices, such as crutches, canes, and walkers, provide patients with the opportunity to become mobile. As a nurse, it's important to understand the basics about assistive devices.

In this video, you'll learn the following:

-How to use crutches properly
-How to adjust crutches to the proper height (2-3 fingers between armpit and crutch pad, with arm at 30 degrees and handle at around hip line)
-Two-Point Gait Demonstration (2-point gait)
-Three-Point Gait Demonstration (3-point gait)
-Four-Point Gait Demonstration (4-point gait)
-Swing-To Gait
-Swing-Through Gait
-How to use crutches on stairs (going up stairs and going down stairs- with demonstration)
-How to sit down in a chair with crutches
-How to get out of a chair with crutches

Although this lecture focuses on crutches for nursing student exams such as NCLEX, HESI, and ATI, the information and demonstrations is also relevant to anyone who uses crutches as an assistive device or for those practicing nursing skills, CNA skills, physical therapists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation centers, and so forth.

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