This designer’s amputee dad inspired him to redesign the crutch

When Max Younger was a kid, his dad Dan was always on crutches. A serious childhood injury meant that his father was constantly in-and-out of the hospital, getting surgeries and knee replacements. « They caused irritation, bruising, and nerve damage in his hands, » Max remembers. « He was never one to complain, but you could see it, and if you asked, he’d tell you. »

 

After decades of watching his father limp around the house, Younger—an industrial design student working at Hallmark—started noodling in his spare time on a design that would help his father deal with the wrist and arm pain that come from extended crutch use. Then Max got a call—his father had a staph infection. The leg had to be amputated. Dan would be on crutches for the rest of his life.

So Max teamed up with his wife, Liliana, to found Mobility Designed, a company that wants to bring crutch design into the Space Age with its first product, the M+D Crutch.

Source : Fast Company

Image : Photo by Alev Takil on Unsplash

 

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