The phrase "ability to ambulate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or health-related contexts to describe a person's capacity to walk or move from one place to another.
Example: "After the surgery, the patient's ability to ambulate was assessed by the physical therapist."
Alternatives: "capacity to walk" or "ability to move".
The relationship between prescription medication use and ability to ambulate distances after spinal cord injury.
Gailey RS, Roach KE, Applegate EB, Cho B, Cunniffe B, Licht S, Maguire M, Nash MS. The Amputee Mobility Predictor: an instrument to assess determinants of the lower-limb amputee ability to ambulate.
"The federal law speaks to when a major life function is affected, such as the ability to speak, the ability to see, or the ability to ambulate — to walk around," said Douglas Kahn, a lawyer in San Rafael, Calif., who specializes in employment law.
In a landmark paper [2], he categorised SCFEs into stable and unstable based on the patient's ability to ambulate (with or without crutches) or not.
In addition, given the wide variation in these children's ability to ambulate due to their underlying conditions, questions about the use of assistive devices were included.
Knee bracing was recommended to patients with limitations in activity defined by the ability to ambulate up and down a flight of stairs ±knee brace.
For medical reasons as yet unidentified, something happens to normally robust fathers upon entry into one of these kids' museums, something that instantaneously saps them of their ability to speak, ambulate, or even parent.
Length of hospitalization was determined individually in each patient depending primarily on postoperative general medical status and ability to stand or ambulate with a walker.
The length of hospitalization was determined individually in every patient depending primarily on postoperative general medical status and ability to stand or ambulate with a walker; function was not evaluated at the time of discharge from hospital.
The usual approach to decide PPS is to first determine whether the disease has limited the ability to work or ambulate (left side), and then work one's way across the table.
James himself is advised to "ambulate" after suffering a thrombosis en route to New York.
