New crutch design is a weighty issue By Beth Lipoff. Special to The Star. Updated February 03, 2016 1:02 PM. ORDER REPRINT ...

Crutches have been around since the Pharaohs ruled Egypt some 5,000 years ago. You might think that 50 centuries would have given the medical device adequate time to evolve. After all, we aren't ...

As Max sees it, crutch design hasn’t much changed since the Civil War. They’re just sticks you shove under your arms that require you to put all your body weight on your wrists and armpits to ...

The two halves of his design snap together to form a neat seat-like thing so you can take the weight off your injury. Seems a darn sensible idea. With just one concern: that connection.

Better ergonomic crutch design. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link. The letter F. Gene Kim. 2016-04 ... Anyone who had to use crutches know how painful they can be.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Local health care providers are among the first in the nation helping design new crutches. Part of the team at OrthoCincy, as well as several other physicians and physical ...

Traditional crutches are hardly ideal for getting around with an injured leg. This redesign makes it safer and simpler to get around. A snowboarding accident and a sprained ankle inspired a group ...

Jack Murphy, now a mechanical engineer, worked on the crutch design last year as a student at the University of Maryland. He described the experience as both revelatory and distinctly challenging.