Walking safely on ice

[agate]

For those who still try to walk on ice, the Berkeley Wellness Letter has some suggestions about walking safely:


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And has anybody else tried these ice-gripper things?

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I have some of these but can't say I've used them much.

[Parsi]

I understand that there is a problem with those. I'm not sure what.

If I know there is ice, I'm usuallly fine with it. The problem is when I come upon it unaware.

[Sunshine]

I cannot even imagine being able to walk on ice!

[agate]

I wouldn't attempt it any more either, BBS. So those grippers are just gathering dust. My legs would lose sensation as soon as my feet landed on ice.

If I remember when I did try to use the grippers, they tended to slide around and even slip off partway.

[stillstANNding]

I have yax- trax. The problem is that they can pop off and you need to go back to find them.

Instead, i take my cane w an added ice tip:

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It flips up for indoors and down for ice and packed snow.

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[Lazarus]

I use those grippers that stretch onto your shoes. I have a lot of ice and they help me walk to the greenhouses with no problem.

I have always had a problem with the one on my left shoe. It slips off. I think it is my fault for not getting them fully on the shoe. Next time I will take my shoe off and put it on fully.

[Virginia]

Many years ago when I walking fine I heard on the news that putting on socks over your shoes would keep you from slipping. I put a real big heavy pair over my tennis shoes and it worked back then. I have never tried it since.

I was talking with a friend who use to live next door to me, and now lives in Atlanta. She said "You know if you fall and break a leg, it is only you that will get hurt and in your case you will never walk again". Made me stop and think because she is right.

[Cat Dancer]

the problem with those gripper things is that so long as you're outside *walking on ice and/or snow*, they're great. But as soon as you hit dry pavement, or try to walk indoors, they're *very* slippery, particularly the ones that look like chains. So unless you can stop at an entrance, take off your shoes, and remove them, they're not much help. The flip up grippers for the bottom of canes (or forearm crutches) work well, so long as you're able to stand, balance enough to lift the crutch tip up to your hands, and flip the lever, you're good...but again, if you don't do that, the gripper is really slippery indoors.