About CrutchDirectory
A free, ad-light directory of the 172,242 US businesses registered to supply crutches and other mobility equipment, plus plain-language guides to buying them.
Why it exists
Searching "where to buy crutches near me" returns two things: national retailer pages that do not know where you are, and map results that do not distinguish a pharmacy with one aluminum pair from an equipment dealer that will fit you properly. Neither tells you what a given store is actually likely to have.
The federal supplier registry can answer that, because it records what kind of supplier each business registered as. It is public, it is free, and nobody had turned it into something a person with a broken ankle can use. That is this site.
What we do and do not claim
We claim that each listed business is registered with CMS as a supplier of medical equipment or as a pharmacy, at the address shown, as of the CMS NPPES Data Dissemination, August 2026 file (2026-08-10), re-checked against the live NPI Registry on 2026-10-29. We do not claim any of them has crutches in stock today. That distinction is deliberate and it runs through every page. The full methodology is public, including what the data cannot tell you.
Editorial rules
- Ranking is not for sale. No business can pay to be listed, to rank higher in the results, or to have a competitor moved down or removed. A business can buy a featured placement, which is a labelled block above the results; it adds a slot on top and changes nothing inside them.
- No invented data. If the registry has no phone number, the listing says so rather than showing a plausible one.
- No medical advice. We describe products and costs. Which mobility aid suits your injury is a conversation with a clinician.
- Advertising is labelled, always. Retailer offers are marked Sponsored and sit outside the ranked results. A featured business is marked Featured and its block says it is paid. Where we earn from a link it says so. You should never have to guess which parts of a page were bought.
- Corrections are free and fast. Report anything wrong and it changes in the next build.
How it is funded
Two things. Advertising from online retailers, marked Sponsored, plus any commission a buying-guide link earns, at no extra cost to you. And featured placements, where a listed business pays a flat monthly fee for a labelled block above its city's results.
The fee is flat and never varies with the calls, clicks or sales it produces, which is deliberate: payment that tracked the business generated would give us a reason to steer you, and every supplier here bills Medicare. Because a featured placement sits above the results rather than inside them, the ordering of the results themselves still earns us nothing, so there is still no incentive to rank one supplier over another.
Who runs it
CrutchDirectory is published by NLH Enterprises LLC. Questions, corrections, and press enquiries: hello@crutchdirectory.com.
Not affiliated with the government
This is an independent private website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Medicare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the U.S. Census Bureau, or any other government agency. It uses their published public-domain data, which anyone may do. For official Medicare information, go to medicare.gov or call 1-800-MEDICARE.