01/05/2026
A daughter’s heartwarming story about her father who has Parkinson’s and the U-Step:
“My father has Parkinson's; he was diagnosed in 2003. He fell from balance issues in March and broke his sacrum. The doctors told me to put him in a nursing home for the rest of his life, and that nothing could be done for him, that the best we could hope for was a wheelchair! I researched sacral insufficiency fractures and found a doctor where I live who performs Sacroplasty. My father's sacrum was medically 'cemented' back together in less than one hour. My father is a bright 87-year-old, active man, and I wasn't going to settle for what the doctors told us.
During my research, I discovered a U-Step ad while reading through dad's Neurology Now Magazine. Once my father had rehabilitated in a skilled nursing facility for three months, the doctor there, at my request, gave him a prescription for the U-Step.
My father now walks approximately the length of a football field daily as he's now living in an Assisted Living facility; his room is at the end of two long hallways. With PD, patients need to exercise, and with the U-Step he is able to do this three times a day to/from meals, to doctors appointments as well as around in his apartment. Without the U-Step, getting around would be very difficult for dad, and he'd likely still be using a wheelchair.
His balance has gotten worse due to his PD, and soon I'll be ordering the laser adapter for his U-Step Walker. We get so many compliments on the U-Step with its 7 wheels, and the safety feature of this walker is that the U-Step only moves when either of the handle levers are squeezed; this prevents rolling away accidents.
My father has used the U-Step now for almost two months. This wonderful product makes it so much easier for him to navigate, back up, and turn, and the weight balancing of the base is wonderful, but not too heavy for me to lift in and out of the car. Dad uses the basket to hold his keys and reading glasses and also the seat when he gets tired; even the doctors who I've taken my father to see have tried it out and think it's a great, highly functional walker!”
