Robbins Grips

If you are on crutches for an extended time and your hands are hurting, guess what.  They don't have to.  That is why the Robbins Grips were invented.  When I was a substitute teacher several years ago there was a girl in the fifth grad who was walking on crutches down the aisle with a friend.  The girl was in tears and told her friend "My hands are killing me."  That was when I decided to see what I could do with the crutch handles I had made for myself when I was on crutches and it felt as if my hands would kill me.

The Robbins Grips are ergonomically made so that your body weight is on the palm of the hand and not between the thumb and first finger. Place the grip at the level that is most comfortable for you and your hands will feel much better.  I still wonder about that little fifth grade girl, and would like to know if she now has arthritis in her hands.  I am sure that is what caused me to have arthritis in my hands.

Recent Developments

We’ve found it – a material that will not crack or break. 

To make sure, I placed a grip made from it in boiling water for 10 minutes, immediately put the grip in the freezer and left it overnight.  The next morning I placed the grip on my garage floor and beat it with a hammer. I could not even make a scratch. Just to make sure, I went through the entire process again.  THIS MATERIAL WILL NOT BREAK.  

Its present use is about 3,000 feet down in oil wells. Drillers were having trouble with a part breaking.  At that depth it was expensive and time consuming to replace.  Therefore this product was developed. It’s hard to get and so far we have only been able to purchase it in black and cream color, but cream color is scarce, so most of our grips are now only in black.  As more products start being made of this material I think it will be available in colors. 

Now, we are trying to find a suitable material for a pad.  Don’t give up.  We will find it.