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PT Question of the Week - Appropriate assistive device

You are about to provide gait training to a 22-year-old patient who has just had a partial meniscectomy and is 50 percent partial weight-bearing. Which of the following combinations of assisted device and gait pattern would be the most appropriate for this patient? 
1. Lofstrand crutches and three-point gait
2. Axillary crutches and modified three-point gait
3. Lofstrand crutches and modified three-point gait
4. Axillary crutches and three-point gait

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