Your healthcare provider wants you to apply care for a special dressing, or packing, for your wound. When a wound is deep, or when it tunnels under the skin, packing the wound can help it heal. These guidelines will help you remember how to take care of your wound.
Taking proper care of your wound will help it heal. Your healthcare provider or nurse may show you specifically how to clean and dress the wound and how to tell if the wound is healing normally. This sheet will help you remember those guidelines when you are at home.
Your healthcare provider has prescribed crutches for you. A healthy leg can support your body weight, but when you have an injured leg or foot, you need to keep weight off it. Once you are told that you can put some weight on your leg, use a "weight-bearing" method of walking as the leg heals.
Your healthcare provider has prescribed crutches for you. Follow our step-by-step guide to using crutches.
Using an autoinjector makes it easy to give yourself a shot. It also makes it easy for someone else to give you a shot if you can't.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around outside your home. Remember to step up with your good (uninjured or stronger) leg and down with your bad (injured or weaker) leg.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around. Use these directions to help you get through doorways with your walker. Stay away from revolving doors. Look for regular doors or disabled entrances instead.
To use your walker, you need to learn new ways to get around. A walker can help you when you sit down and stand up.
To use your walker, you need to learn a new way to walk (gait). Read on for helpful tips and illustrations.
A peak flow meter measures how fast you can push air out of your lungs. Your peak flow reading may be an early sign that your asthma is getting out of control. Read on to learn the steps for using a peak flow meter.