Innovating+the+Humble+Crutch

While I've been fortunate enough not to need crutches, I've always felt that their ugliness and limited function added insult to injury. Finally, a design engineer had to use them and figured out how to make a major upgrade. Read his story on Popular Science. || ||
 * For years I have lamented how the crutch has failed to improve in design and function the way other medical products have.The design of the crutch has essentially remained the same for the past several hundred years.