Sit & Stand Hands-Free Crutch
Collage for Creative Studies 2013
Category
Industry
Medical
Description
Sit & Stand is an innovative solution that enables people with leg injuries to do most of their daily activities, such as opening doors, using stairs and carrying light-weight objects independently and with ease. Sit & Stand is a walking assistance system, as well as a personal seat that allows the user to rest and relax. These unique features make Sit & Stand a great, functional design and also a cost effective product as it can be produced using most of the same inexpensive raw materials used in traditional crutches.
Design Challenge
The challenge was to design a crutch which performs better than traditional forearm and underarm crutches.
To fulfill this aim, the first phase of the project was to discover the limitations and problems users experience while using a traditional version of crutches. To understand these problems, crutch users have been interviewed, and an experiment was conducted by performing day-to-day tasks using both forearm and underarm crutches. Data from the interviews and the experiment show that the main problem is related to limitations in the use of hands.
