Leg Braces

Curt Leatherbee · 05-14-2003, 12:52 PM

Just got my leg braces, finally after 3 months of the Ortho guy making adjustment. They seem to fit great now and am going to start standing up on them every day for the next couple weeks and then start walking again doing swing through gates using a walker like I use to do.

The problem was that I outgrew my old leg braces due to using the FES bike for the last 2 years as my legs have got so much bigger and my old leg braces did not fit properly.

It is going to be good to get into a leg brace program every day. I figure I will use them for a half hour everyday. I would like to use them more, but between my FES, weight lifting, Handcycling, working, and now riding my Power Trike on occasion, I am a pretty busy guy lately.

Just got back from the hospital with the braces still on, about to stand for the first time in a long time at my kitchen sink. I find that is a good place to get into a standing position.

"Life is about how you
respond to not only the
challenges you're dealt but
the challenges you seek...If
you have no goals, no
mountains to climb, your
soul dies".~Liz Fordred

betheny · 05-14-2003, 02:23 PM

Curtis-
Did you feel TALL? Your neighbors will wonder who is looking out your kitchen window! Does the extra leg muscle mass help to stand? (Just wondering)

You'd better get a big gun 'cause I'm not dead yet."
---The Bad Examples

foster · 05-24-2003, 01:45 PM

has anybody tried these hinges.
http://www.stancecontrol.com/index.html

1uncleED · 05-24-2003, 03:12 PM

Curtis,
Why the "swing through gait"? Just curious if you have tried one foot in front of the other?
The reason I ask is that when I was doing out patient rehab 10 years ago they were telling me I had to use the swing through method even though I could put one foot in front... Even though I could do this, they, as much as they could, told me not to try to walk "normally."
I didn't listen and I now walk with my leg braces and two (four pegged) canes which provide amazing stability.
Just curious,
Meeker

foster · 06-02-2003, 06:54 AM

curtis I'm such you alresdy read this but if not it is very good reading about walking in leg braces.
http://www.pediatric-orthopedics.com...king_afos.html

antiquity · 06-02-2003, 09:13 PM

Sounds good Curtis, glad to hear that you've taken your exercise program to the next level. Keep up the good work!

05-14-2003, 12:52 PM	#1
Curt Leatherbee Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 9,308	Leg Braces Just got my leg braces, finally after 3 months of the Ortho guy making adjustment. They seem to fit great now and am going to start standing up on them every day for the next couple weeks and then start walking again doing swing through gates using a walker like I use to do. The problem was that I outgrew my old leg braces due to using the FES bike for the last 2 years as my legs have got so much bigger and my old leg braces did not fit properly. It is going to be good to get into a leg brace program every day. I figure I will use them for a half hour everyday. I would like to use them more, but between my FES, weight lifting, Handcycling, working, and now riding my Power Trike on occasion, I am a pretty busy guy lately. Just got back from the hospital with the braces still on, about to stand for the first time in a long time at my kitchen sink. I find that is a good place to get into a standing position. "Life is about how you respond to not only the challenges you're dealt but the challenges you seek...If you have no goals, no mountains to climb, your soul dies".~Liz Fordred

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05-14-2003, 02:23 PM	#2
betheny Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Oklahoma,USA Posts: 18,333	Curtis- Did you feel TALL? Your neighbors will wonder who is looking out your kitchen window! Does the extra leg muscle mass help to stand? (Just wondering) You'd better get a big gun 'cause I'm not dead yet." ---The Bad Examples

05-24-2003, 01:45 PM	#3
foster Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: bensalem Pa usa Posts: 261	has anybody tried these hinges. http://www.stancecontrol.com/index.html

05-24-2003, 03:12 PM	#4
1uncleED Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: phoenix Posts: 59	Curtis, Why the "swing through gait"? Just curious if you have tried one foot in front of the other? The reason I ask is that when I was doing out patient rehab 10 years ago they were telling me I had to use the swing through method even though I could put one foot in front... Even though I could do this, they, as much as they could, told me not to try to walk "normally." I didn't listen and I now walk with my leg braces and two (four pegged) canes which provide amazing stability. Just curious, Meeker

06-02-2003, 06:54 AM	#5
foster Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: bensalem Pa usa Posts: 261	curtis I'm such you alresdy read this but if not it is very good reading about walking in leg braces. http://www.pediatric-orthopedics.com...king_afos.html

06-02-2003, 09:13 PM	#6
antiquity Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 14,540	Sounds good Curtis, glad to hear that you've taken your exercise program to the next level. Keep up the good work!