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Crutches

Maybe

Products sell for $26.11 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at +6.9% this quarter, so Crutches is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 13% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +10 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£455K/yr643K searches / yr
90-day growth
+6.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 30 sellers

Flapen Score

Crutches against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Crutches is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Crutches market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Crutches 643K times last year and spent an estimated £455K. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 643K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +6.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £455K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
643K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+6.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.7%
Market size, estimated
£455Ka year
Peak month
May1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
crutches for adults288K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £26.11.

Listings sell for £26.11 on average, from £13.64 to £70.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £26.11 that is £7K to £13K a year per listing.

Average price
£26.11inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£13.64–£70.89
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£13K
Returns
3.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 72% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #21 within Medical Supplies & Equipment. It carries 400 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
72%
Out of stock, average day
13.6%
Average rank
#21in Medical Supplies & Equipment
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
400per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 17 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

17 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
17
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Crutches products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£18K£36K£55K£73K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

30

Est. top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

24%

  • The Helping Hand Company18%
  • KoolShiro15%
  • NRS13%
  • Days12%
  • OUUTMEE10%
  • Ossenberg8%

Demand

Crutches search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

13K8KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Crutches search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • crutches for adults288K/yr
  • crutches185K/yr
  • crutches for adults women32K/yr
  • crutch29K/yr
  • folding crutches14K/yr
  • walking crutches for adults8K/yr
  • elbow crutches for adults11K/yr
  • forearm crutches12K/yr
  • elbow crutches11K/yr
  • forearm crutches for adults6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Crutches

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

15%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
12%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
3.0%of orders come back
“broke after two days use”
A buyer, on “Durability”12% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Crutches questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data