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Table 1 Categories of ambulatory ability

From: Gamma 3 U-Blade lag screws in patients with trochanteric femur fractures: are rotation control lag screws better than others?

1. Independent community ambulator

2. Community ambulatory with cane

3. Community ambulatory with walker/crutches

4. Independent household ambulator

5. Household ambulatory with cane

6. Household ambulatory with walker or crutches

7. Nonfunctional ambulatora

  1. aUsed only for after-fracture ambulation
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

ISSN: 1749-799X