I get Extreme use out of these crutches as I am Very active. I do Lots of hiking on rugged trails, they go with me when I’m fishing lake shores or river banks, taken with me on the quads, go with me when I am 4 wheeling with my truck and TONS more.. that being said I’ve had other crutches (brands) that held up to all of those for a much MUCH longer time. Past brands that I’ve used have been able to hold up for years on end even the earlier model of the in motion pro forearm crutches. I like The comfortability of the spring loaded action but that’s about it. With the new model of the in motion pros… I’ve gone through 6 pairs in the past 2 years or so… the rubber handle comes off just under normal walking conditions nothing crazy and my current set the handle came off after 4 hours of use out of the box brand new.. main reason behind this is because you can’t rivet a soft rubber compound handle to a metal base… this has cause me to fall MULTIPLE times and the handle becomes useless when it rains or even snows.. BIG PROBLEM… second, the plastic base on my last 3 pairs of the forearm cuff have snapped off under normal walking conditions as well which also caused me to fall. Everything was connected correctly just broke off in a weird place.. third the spring has failed on me on 4 out of 6 sets where it’s either snapped (not under extra weight like a pack or anything) or it’s gotten stuck.. I understand getting stuck there’s nothing that can be done about that and I’ve been able to fix that on my own of course but snapping after 3 weeks of use shouldn’t happen I’m only 118lbs. please PLEASE go back to the original design where the handle was a harder compound and screwed into the base not riveted to metal.
