Maria's crutches

From pictures you have seen, you may have noticed that Maria uses crutches.  Her crutches although were very good, were not appropriate for her.  The main reason is that the axillary crutches are not meant for long term use.  I found out that the main artery that supplies blood to the are goes where you armpit is....so, you can just imagine what walking on these would be like all the time.

Maria's axillary crutches

 When we went to Shriner's I was told what kind of forearm crutches to get for her.  It was one of the few positives from the experiences...it wasn't the right fit for us.  Anyway....I ended up ordering the forearm crutches in the color of Maria's choice and they came a little over a week ago.

Here is Maria the first day (actually the first hour) on the forearm crutches.

The 3 above videos are from this morning as we were going into church.  As you can see the girl got the hang of things rather quickly.  She hasn't even had any official PT training on them.  She is getting faster and she is a lot quieter....now she can start sneaking up on people!  She is doing great!

Oh, and in case you are wondering she hasn't used her old crutches since the new ones came!