Patent ID: 7510214

Claim:
A method of ambulating an individual with upper and lower extremities from one location to another across an operating surface, comprising the steps of: providing an ambulation device comprising a base having a bottom portion, a peripheral edge portion, opposite first and second side portions, and an upper end portion; providing means for selective manual engagement with the operating surface using the individual's upper extremities; said means generally having opposite first and second side portions; standing the individual in operative engagement with the upper end portion of said base; operatively engaging the individual's upper extremities with said means so that said means is generally positioned in front of the individual in a spaced relationship with said base; shifting a preponderance of the individual's mass toward the first side portion of said base; engaging said means with the operating surface so that the means and the operating surface generally remain in a static position with respect to one another; pulling on a portion of said means with the individual's upper extremities so that the second side portion of said base and the individual's lower extremities move generally toward the second side portion of said means; shifting a preponderance of the individual's mass toward the second side portion of said base; and pulling on a portion of said means so that the first side portion of said base moves generally toward the first side portion of said means.