Friday, May 12, 2017

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.

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