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My first thought is, can they stay with a friend/family member for a while until they can handle stairs? Secondly, they could have an ambulance ride home, have home health follow-up to progress to stairs, and pray that there is not fire or emergency. Third, if they had to go back to that situation, then I would probably have them go up on their bottom, backwards. They would likely need help getting up and down to stand/sit on the bottom step, but would have difficulty at the top step. They would need strong arms to do it. Let us know how it turns out, Renee Cordrey Miller, Tricia wrote: > > Does anyone have creative yet safe suggestions on how to teach patients S/P > TKR to go up and down the stairs - if the following apply: > * bilateral TKR's > * PWB bilaterally > * is still wearing knee immobilizers (secondary to not being able to > SLR) > * patient is going home with 14 steps to enter/exit apartment %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%