Dispatches: Can We Please Kill Off Crutches? 
Outside Podcast18 Joulu 2018

Dispatches: Can We Please Kill Off Crutches? 

Almost everyone who’s used underarm crutches agrees: they are terrible. They’re hard on your wrists, they cause falls, they cause nerve damage. This is why almost every country in the world has abandoned them. Except the U.S., where if you go to the hospital with a leg injury, you’re most likely going to leave with adjustable aluminum crutches. In this third installment of our series exploring how gear gets made, we look at the fascinating history of why better designs for crutches haven’t caught on, and whether or not they ever will.

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Dispatches: Kellee Edwards’s Story is a Trip

Dispatches: Kellee Edwards’s Story is a Trip

Kellee Edwards had a dream of getting her own show on the Travel Channel. She also had a plan. As a black woman trying to break into the overwhelmingly white and male world of travel television, she f...

8 Touko 201824min

Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too

Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too

Distance runner Alexi Pappas is the rare dual-threat of Olympic athlete and movie star. In the 2016 film Tracktown, which she wrote, directed, and plays the lead character in, she set out to capture t...

1 Touko 201822min

Science of Survival: A Very Old Man for a Wolf

Science of Survival: A Very Old Man for a Wolf

One day in 2005 or 2006, a young wolf in Idaho headed west. He swam across the Snake River to Oregon, which was then outside the gray wolf’s range. After he established a territory, he became the most...

24 Huhti 201843min

Dispatches: The Woman Who Rides Mountains

Dispatches: The Woman Who Rides Mountains

Maverick’s, the monster surf break off the Northern California coast, has long been a proving ground for the world’s best big-wave surfers. But the contest held there most years has never included wom...

17 Huhti 201830min

Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life

Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life

After building Patagonia into an internationally renowned apparel brand, the company’s first CEO, Kris Tompkins, walked away from the job, following her heart to South America. She landed on a small f...

10 Huhti 201822min

Science of Survival: “F/V Destination, Do You Copy?”

Science of Survival: “F/V Destination, Do You Copy?”

It was the kind of disaster that wasn’t supposed to happen anymore. On February 11, 2017, the fishing vessel Destination disappeared in the Bering Sea on its way to the crab grounds. The boat went mis...

3 Huhti 201840min

Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up

Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up

Apparently nobody told Bear Grylls that reality TV stars never have long careers. A dozen years after the cheeky Briton exploded onto American television, the king of survival entertainment is chargin...

20 Maalis 201830min

Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity

Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity

In her acclaimed 2012 memoir, Wild, Cheryl Strayed delivered a fresh take on outdoor writing—a redemption story set on the Pacific Crest Trail. The book spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Se...

6 Maalis 20181h 37min

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