Growing Geriatric Population to Augment the Canes and Crutches Market Growth
Canes and crutches are assistive devices that help improve the quality of life of people living with disabilities, especially the geriatric population. Canes and crutches help an individual with walking disability or ambulation and even after surgery. These devices are widely used by the geriatric population as they are prone to diminishing activities because of various chronic diseases, accidents or leg injury, and frequent falls. Canes have four components, such as ferrule, shaft, column, and handle. Canes are used as walking aid which helps redistribute the body weight, improve stability, and maintain balance. Whereas crutch transfers the weight from legs to the upper body. However, crutch can take more of the body weight than canes. Canes and crutches are used in cases of fracture, obesity, arthritis, developmental disabilities, walking impairment, balancing problems, and others. Market Dynamics: The growing demand for canes and crutches from the growing geriatric popul...