Yes.
1 I was able to use a walker long before I
could use crutches.
2 The walker I own enabled me to use an
ordinary toilet without the wheelchair/
slide board I had used until the day it
arrived. It also enabled me to use any
chair in the house.
2 Crutches are tricky/unsafe when the ground
is slippery. I use my walker instead of my
crutches on wet or icy days.
4 You can put a basket on the walker and use
it to carry things. Carrying a pitcher of
juice from refrigerator to table is a bear
when both hands are needed for the crutches,
reasonable with the walker/basket.
My walker is the Rising Star Super Walker made
by Momentum Medical Corp. in Salt Lake City,
Utah, 800-644-2263. This is not an ordinary
walker; it has two levels of handles, a low
pair for getting up or down, a high level for
walking. The leg bottoms are the usual adjustable
legs with optional wheels, etc. Before this I
had two ordinary walkers that were of no help
when the chair was low. (I had weak legs then.)
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I use the wheelchair in the kitchen, workshop,
and monster stores. I use the crutches out of
the house when it is dry, and I use the walker
when I am going from one seat to another in the
house as well as in wet weather. Mmmnnn, I also
use the crutches whenever I will be doing stairs.
I hope this helped, Mushroo.
Alton, who treasures this walker.
p.s. The walker folds flat to go into the car.