Although China's rehabilitation industry has existed for a long time, businesses do not attach importance to it. Some walkers on the market are old products of brackets a long time ago. These stent walkers not only have no help, but also have no rehabilitation function at all. The only supporting function is that patients need to support their whole body weight with their hands. Imagine that a normal mature man can only support the weight of his whole body with his hands for a short time, not to mention the situation of elderly stroke patients. Using this kind of stent walker will only make more stroke elderly people more reluctant to walk, greatly reducing the enthusiasm of rehabilitation, leading to difficulties in rehabilitation!
Stent walker
Is it really as easy to use walkers abroad as you think?
There are indeed many modern scooters abroad, such as rechargeable scooters (such as Honda's electric scooter). Although this kind of walker has a power-assisted effect, the power-assisted effect is relatively weak, and it is not as labor-saving as imagined. The product itself is relatively heavy, 2.7 kilograms, which increases the load, and it is cumbersome to wear and needs help from others. Need to charge every day, only use 1 hour at a time. When there is no electricity, it is not helpful, but a burden! Most importantly, the price is expensive! Such an expensive walker, equivalent to about10.5 million yuan, can make elderly patients with limited mobility or even unable to walk, take care of themselves and go out for a walk like normal people.
The use technology of walker refers to the equipment that helps people with mobility difficulties, amblyopia, blindness, the elderly and the disabled to support their weight, keep their balance and exercise, and get effective rehabilitation exercise under the condition of ensuring the safety of patients. The reference books are almost the same, but I feel that these sentences are all around the mouth, and I have to make up for half a day every time I read them. Let's simply understand it according to the function.
How should we choose these walkers? I hope reading this article will help you.
Functions and indications
Main functions:
(1) Balance: For example, in the elderly, there are no central obstacles such as weakness of lower limbs, poor extension of lower limb spasm, unbalanced movement of center of gravity, etc., but it has little effect on the balance disorder of elderly patients with stroke and multiple cerebral infarction.
(2) Support weight: After hemiplegia and paraplegia, when the patient's muscle strength is weakened, his lower limbs are weak, and he can't support the weight or can't bear the weight due to joint pain, the walker can play a substitute role. Some books say that it is not suitable for hemiplegia, which means that ordinary frame walkers are not suitable for hemiplegia.
(3) Assisted walking: walking sticks and axillary sticks are commonly used. Because the walker is safer than the above-mentioned assistive devices to support the body, you must slow down when you see the walker in the community.
(4) Rehabilitation training: practical teaching AIDS often used in homework training and family rehabilitation training are for reference only.