This is the method I’ve been using for several years. It works well in a real life situation. Only trouble is getting to the sofa or armchair from another room. One time it took me several hours to make the trip! Thanks for making such helpful videos.
That's how I got up off the floor last night after a weakening fall (on a carpeted floor thank God). IT WORKS! Even worked on some floor exercises while I was down there!☺
I have bone on bone arthritis behind both patellas. I also have hypermobility Ehler-Danlos syndrome. This makes my ankles turn reeeally easily. I step on a small rock, uneven sidewalk, etc., and I lose my balance and fall. I land on my knees then to the side. This is usually outside with no handy furniture. My technique is this: I get on my hands and knees (and this is very painful for them), raise my midsection, move my feet and hands closer together until my legs are straight, then move my hands up my legs until I’m standing. Phew! Useful when no help is around. I will try your technique if (if?) I fall near furniture. I came from watching your rollator video. I’m on my third one. I’ve been doing okay so far, and I will check the handle height to see if it needs lowering. Thanks for the channel and I’ll watching for tips!
There are new cushy cozi slip ons that should work. So thick, they’d compensate for stepping on a small stone. No excuse for this lack of tech. We should have inflatables, we should check our app for today. Oh, lots of walking yesterday, little swelling…got it. Shoe insert goes to 3D printer. For your need… try some padding. I have a drawer filled with stuff that sounded good in the ad. It’s real hard to find, previously only Japanese maker, but with a search can find knee cover, easy pull on, soft cloth, light compression. We have to do it on our own. Solutions are ours to find.
Should be impossible to fall. Antebellum hoop skirts like Gone with the Wind. Don’t let you fall. Think ramp. Every room should have a ramp. Stored under the bed, brought around to use to go up backwards to transfer to the bed. 83 is not bad. Benjamin Ferencz could do one hand sit-ups at 100. Jack LaLaine too.
What if you're some place where there is no low furniture you can sit on? Like a small kitchen or hallway? Yard, Park, Parking lot, etc? I was taught to roll into my belly. Get up on my hands and knees and then straighten up and stand with the bad leg then good. If near something hard you can lean on it with your hand ot arm for support. Same from a low stool or something like that. Which I have to use to clean out and put the groceries away in the fridge. That's what works best for me anyway. I've tried other methods but with my injured knee and not much around because i do lose my balance alot (i also have heart and lightheadedness issues) i have to improvise. If my daughter is close she does help me but she works alot. When my dad was alive I learned how to help someone get up and support yourself at the same time. I taught my daughter.
I have bad balance and yes fall. The first thing I do relax and breath check out my body and the mess im in. Try to get by something I use my hands to pull me up and walk my hands up my legs
It’s not just falls. I’ve had trouble getting back up after a planned move to the floor to retrieve something. Used a sturdy wooden step stool.I’d never use it to step, but using it for braving forearm. Didn’t help, It was kitchen floor. Basement stairs were 12 feet away. I butt skootched to the basement door. My feet on the third step, I used the handrail to stand. This problem is not addressed as it should be. It is beyond all-too-common….it is inevitable. There must be tools. Must be methods. With what you have here….pull a couch cushion off to the floor. It shortens the distance to the couch frame. Lack of planning is what we suffer from. Safety bars should be used strategically., not just in the bathroom. Installation needs to be attaching to a stud. Mark the spots, don’t let the installer cut corners. Safety bars have correct screws, they need a correct base. With safety bars near the floor, the person can use hands to assist getting back up. Little Giant has a superb stepstool. Each step as wide as, say, a playground swing set seat. It’s perfectly balanced and sturdy. I keep it opened, chairside, to hold plants. Used it --just the other fall. Had trouble with my being able to lift to the seat. Now I'll make an inclined plane to get up the eight inches to the first step. Shimmy butt skootch to get to the seat. The little ramp can be tucked under a chair…small safety bar for stability, use it to draw it near to get it in place. Your video is good because it gives visual proof. It can be done. We’re just not planning. Work with a bud. Survey your homes. Talk about it, plan, devise.
I can usually get up on my own. Several times I have fallen in public and well-meaning bystanders will run over and begin pulling on my arm. I try to not be rude, I know they only want to help but do not know how to offer correct assistance.
That's exactly why I refuse to use either a cane or a walker. That's exactly what I would do. PTʼs and doctors assure me that won't happen. It already has. My visiting nurse saw it happen. Her jaw dropped.
This is the method I’ve been using for several years. It works well in a real life situation. Only trouble is getting to the sofa or armchair from another room. One time it took me several hours to make the trip!
Thanks for making such helpful videos.
I have been wearing a phone around my waste in a bag for a few years. I've used it to phone a neighbor or the police. It's never failed.
That's how I got up off the floor last night after a weakening fall (on a carpeted floor thank God). IT WORKS! Even worked on some floor exercises while I was down there!☺
I have bone on bone arthritis behind both patellas. I also have hypermobility Ehler-Danlos syndrome. This makes my ankles turn reeeally easily. I step on a small rock, uneven sidewalk, etc., and I lose my balance and fall. I land on my knees then to the side. This is usually outside with no handy furniture. My technique is this: I get on my hands and knees (and this is very painful for them), raise my midsection, move my feet and hands closer together until my legs are straight, then move my hands up my legs until I’m standing. Phew! Useful when no help is around. I will try your technique if (if?) I fall near furniture. I came from watching your rollator video. I’m on my third one. I’ve been doing okay so far, and I will check the handle height to see if it needs lowering. Thanks for the channel and I’ll watching for tips!
There are new cushy cozi slip ons that should work. So thick, they’d compensate for stepping on a small stone.
No excuse for this lack of tech. We should have inflatables, we should check our app for today. Oh, lots of walking yesterday, little swelling…got it. Shoe insert goes to 3D printer.
For your need… try some padding. I have a drawer filled with stuff that sounded good in the ad.
It’s real hard to find, previously only Japanese maker, but with a search can find knee cover, easy pull on, soft cloth, light compression.
We have to do it on our own. Solutions are ours to find.
🙏👍 Dear Dr. Shawn, l am very happy l found you. Such helpful video's and we all need you. Have a Happy day!!🌟
I'm very grateful for this video!😍
You think of everything! Thank you!!
Thank you but you are a much younger more agile person,which makes a big difference. Fallee age 83💐
Should be impossible to fall. Antebellum hoop skirts like Gone with the Wind. Don’t let you fall.
Think ramp. Every room should have a ramp. Stored under the bed, brought around to use to go up backwards to transfer to the bed.
83 is not bad. Benjamin Ferencz could do one hand sit-ups at 100. Jack LaLaine too.
@@audraeden8923 hooray for them. We are all different.
Thank you, thank you so much!
I hope I don’t need this video but the reality is I fall often
Me, too
My MS has caused falling issues ….this is helpful.
@@quiet-x4h Don't fall, please.
What if you're some place where there is no low furniture you can sit on? Like a small kitchen or hallway? Yard, Park, Parking lot, etc?
I was taught to roll into my belly. Get up on my hands and knees and then straighten up and stand with the bad leg then good. If near something hard you can lean on it with your hand ot arm for support.
Same from a low stool or something like that. Which I have to use to clean out and put the groceries away in the fridge.
That's what works best for me anyway. I've tried other methods but with my injured knee and not much around because i do lose my balance alot (i also have heart and lightheadedness issues) i have to improvise.
If my daughter is close she does help me but she works alot.
When my dad was alive I learned how to help someone get up and support yourself at the same time. I taught my daughter.
I have bad balance and yes fall. The first thing I do
relax and breath check out my body and the mess im in. Try to get by something I use my hands to pull me up and walk my hands up my legs
I subscribed because I am a fall risk.
Trust me it's not easy as it looks.
You funny 🤓🤣🤣 i just hay to walk real slow don't care for falls but i learyi it is what it is👍
It’s not just falls. I’ve had trouble getting back up after a planned move to the floor to retrieve something. Used a sturdy wooden step stool.I’d never use it to step, but using it for braving forearm. Didn’t help,
It was kitchen floor. Basement stairs were 12 feet away. I butt skootched to the basement door. My feet on the third step, I used the handrail to stand.
This problem is not addressed as it should be. It is beyond all-too-common….it is inevitable.
There must be tools. Must be methods.
With what you have here….pull a couch cushion off to the floor. It shortens the distance to the couch frame.
Lack of planning is what we suffer from. Safety bars should be used strategically., not just in the bathroom.
Installation needs to be attaching to a stud. Mark the spots, don’t let the installer cut corners.
Safety bars have correct screws, they need a correct base. With safety bars near the floor, the person can use hands to assist getting back up.
Little Giant has a superb stepstool. Each step as wide as, say, a playground swing set seat. It’s perfectly balanced and sturdy. I keep it opened, chairside, to hold plants.
Used it --just the other fall. Had trouble with my being able to lift to the seat.
Now I'll make an inclined plane to get up the eight inches to the first step. Shimmy butt skootch to get to the seat.
The little ramp can be tucked under a chair…small safety bar for stability, use it to draw it near to get it in place.
Your video is good because it gives visual proof. It can be done.
We’re just not planning. Work with a bud. Survey your homes.
Talk about it, plan, devise.
I can usually get up on my own. Several times I have fallen in public and well-meaning bystanders will run over and begin pulling on my arm. I try to not be rude, I know they only want to help but do not know how to offer correct assistance.
That's exactly why I refuse to use either a cane or a walker. That's exactly what I would do. PTʼs and doctors assure me that won't happen.
It already has. My visiting nurse saw it happen. Her jaw dropped.