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... in your knee that starts with an 'L.'" (ligament) So that prompted the following interaction... she had left her crutches at her desk and was stumbling toward the hallway.
Crutches Girl: I'm stumbling without my crunches!
Me: Crunches?
Crutches Girl: Oh. Crouches.
Try again. :-p
Then today in class, one of the boys started off with & ...
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... elderly man on crutches.
Today, I saw an elderly man on crutches, and behind him followed an elderly lady on two crutches.
They were trotting along the sidemost of the sidewalk, considerate of the faster-paced ... solid land.
He had one crutch, she had two. Despite the connotation of age and disability the crutches carry, in this scene, it serves as an enhancement of love through the reliance both ...
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... worst part of breaking a leg or ankle is the helplessness of having to hobble around on crutches. But what if you could trade in crutches for your very own prosthetic leg--without cutting off a real one? That's ... the knee down to the uninjured upper leg. The advantage of the Leg over crutches is twofold: it allows users to use both hands, and it keeps the upper leg muscles from withering.
FWD ...
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... Liszewski
As if breaking your foot or ankle wasn’t already painful enough, having to hobble around on a pair of crutches for weeks just adds insult to injury, literally. Unless you manage to get your hands ... the weight to your thigh. There’s no pressure on your injured foot or ankle like when using crutches, but the Freedom Leg lets you stay mobile without tying up your hands and arms ...
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... Leg” is an “off-loading prosthetic” which lets you ditch the crutches and keep on walking, even with a broken leg. This takes a rather painful injury and makes it a little bit ... healed.
The leg weighs 2.5 pounds and costs $350. That’s more than a pair of crutches but it’s most likely that your hospital or doctor would supply it to you temporarily and charge you (US) or ...
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The Freedom Leg is one of their devices. Let's face it, no one likes crutches. They hurt your arms, take up space, and people like to hit you with them. That's where ... foot.
This kind of invention will make people's lives so much easier. No longer can we use crutches as an excuse to not get up and get our own drink. Those days are history, and I think it's a great thing.
Here' ...
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Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches
Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative.
A light, 2.5lb exoskeleton, the Freedom Leg moves all of your body weight from your injured foot to the prosthesis frame and your upper leg, ...
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... was, but it involved him rapping and being angry, I think). And then during the dance portion for the juniors, Bernardini was on crutches.
He suffered an apparent foot injury against Villanova Monday and coach Glen Miller said he was to receive an MRI Tuesday. So seeing him on crutches does not bode well for the Quakers moving forward.
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... lot has happened this week! I am taking it all in stride and not sweating the small stuff. Whew! My daughter hurt her ankle/foot pretty bad and is now on crutches! This is our first crutches experience...so it takes some getting used to for sure. I am so thankful she didn't break it..her poor little swollen bruised foot!
I was cutting my husband's hair earlier this week when the ...
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The crutches are a new and dear friend. They came to dinner with us. We had to put them on the sidewalk so they didn't really get to enjoy dinner, and we were worried someone might run off with them. ... better.
next we decided to plan something where they would feel comfortable so we staged the crutches race 2009. It was a very serious event. Im going to have to train hard for the next ...
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The good news is that Bernard Scott removed his crutches on Thursday. The bad news is that Domata Peko picked them up on Friday. Peko's sprained medial collateral ligament forced him onto crutches Friday morning.
He politely declined comment, fueling speculation, but he said it wasn't a season-ending problem and wants head ...
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The Bengals might have lost wide receiver Chris Henry for the year with a broken forearm but the news isn't as bad for Bengals linebacker Keith Rivers even though he hobbled out of the locker room on crutches with what he called a strained calf he injured covering a punt. He wouldn't rule out playing next week, but if he can't play it will probably only be for a couple of weeks.
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Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn't fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative.
A light, 2.5lb exoskeleton, the Freedom Leg moves all of your body weight from your injured foot to the prosthesis frame and your upper leg, meaning that you can walk pretty much like your used to while ...
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Ok, OK, some people will want to keep the crutches to get the attention, the rest of us will ditch em and get Freedom Leg this is a brilliant device that attaches to the broken legs thigh and suspense the foot a couple inches of the ground. Beneath the foot is a metal bar that you walk on, the best part is that you get to exercise the leg muscle. Brilliant
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... today starting power forward Fran Urli “tweaked” his ankle in Monday’s 75-43 loss at Syracuse.
Brown said Urli, a 6-foot-8 junior college transfer from Croatia, is on crutches today and won’t practice on Wednesday and probably not on Thursday.
UAlbany plays at home against Morgan State on Friday.
“I don’t know where we’re at with him,” Brown said. ...
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