Best ways to get up from a FALL!
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- What are the best two ways to get up from a fall?What is the safest and easiest way to get up again after a fall? This short video will show you the best two ways to get up off the ground if there is no one around to help you. This video covers the chair and scoot method of getting back up again alone.
Good advice. I recently fell outside. I tried getting up but couldn’t and worried if I kept trying I’d fall again. I called a neighbor. She wasn’t able to help me up but was able to brace me while I used both hands on my porch railing to push myself to my feet. I was so embarrassed but am glad I didn’t let that stop me from calling for help.
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Thank you. I use the scoot method, my legs are weak because of inflammatory myopathy and my kneecollapses without warning. I scoot to the staircase.
Dan. Great 👍 advice. For me PANIC would start getting up at any cost. Thank You. Try to remember. Kenneth.
I devised something when I couldn’t get up. I was trying to retrieve something . I took a very sturdy wooden stepstool with me.
Brace my arm, and ….nothing happened. I just couldn’t draw my legs around.
So…..I was in the kitchen. I butt skootched to the basement door.
Oh…well, as long as my two feet are flat on the third step, why not just use the handrail as long as it’s here (!)
If no basement stairs, the outside porch might work….just plan and plan some more…..more planning.
Do not get locked out. Do not have a subsequent fall. Thresholds don’t work. Survey your house, where can you do this safely.
Now…if we’ve stopped long enough to watch this excellent vid…..why are we not surveying our home? Why and when?
Do it with a bud, walk around with an iPad. Take pictures of serviceable furniture.
We need friends , work together.
No excuse on earth for not having strobe flashlight on exterior door doorknobs, hang orange safety whistle.
Gift giving, stocking stuffer, we should all have them, give as gifts to practice with others.
Plaudits . First time I’ve heard the admonition….do not stay on the floor.
Untold problems…dehydration can come up much faster than one thinks. Confusion results.
As a kid, remember adults saying…don’t let somebody go to sleep….might just keep on going.
With a fall, have plan. Don’t stay on the floor. Don’t panic, work your plan.
Convincing elderly people ‘they are not walking right’ is not easy. They would like to think they already know everything to be known about walking. After all, they have a lifetime of walking, jogging, running and possibly even sprinting behind them! This excellent video would be an eye-opener. Once they accept how wrong they are in their knowledge about walking, they will be more receptive to learn new way of walking. Thus motivated, once they practice exercises recommended here, they will be on their way to walking-ways again, confidently. Thanks for this Excellent video.
I have used the first method more than once. Both my falls resulted in a broken shoulder. Osteoporosis sucks! It’s encouraging that my instincts made me do just what this video instructed.
I needed the second method when I fell last year. My legs are not strong enough for the first method. Your videos are excellent. Thank you so very much.
Great tips! And thank you for those ‘helpers you got! And their smiles when they did it! Lol. I’m 73 and have fallen, more than once. Now, I practice a lot on balance and walking right. Thanks!
The helpers are clients.
Two things: 1. show us how to get up if a person falls and there is nothing near by to help. 2. use overweight person to model getting up. Thanks, your videos are helpful.
I appreciate your description on how to get up off of the floor. 8:35 8:35 8:35
So happy to have come across this video. This past year I had a heart attack and triple bypass. Then to top
It off I suffered a stroke as well. I have made a recovery but Dizziness &
IMBALANCE ISSUE STILL
Is persistant when when I overdue it. I WILL FOLLOW YOUR VIDEOES ,
as I do fear 😨 falling and not being
Able to get back up . I am pushing 74
and want to be independent once again. Thank you so much
All good if you fall indoors. But I fell outside in the snow (3! Times) last winter! No furniture in my driveway!
Thanks for these instructions
Stoke victims with weak legs and arms have an entirely different challenge when recovering from a fall. We are working with one leg and one arm. I have fallen a number of times luckily all in the privacy of my home. Lifting one self on one arm and leg. Takes time and patience. Something most people don't have.
Like your other videos, very well done! The first method requires legs and knees that still work. The second method requires good arm strength which a lot of seniors like myself may not have. The BEST way to recover from a fall - if you cannot get up on your own - is to have your cell phone in your pocket at all times. Or a device worn around your neck with a button that links to a call center that will call 911. Peace of mind!
You are so right! I 100% agree. BUT! so many people fall without this. If you cant get help, for any reason, then I highly recommend these two methods.
Thank you for this VERY VALUABLE advice
Having young and perfectly healthy people demonstrate the method is not very encouraging. I (77), have fallen three times, once severe. I was not able to get up alone since it is impossible for me to kneel due to prosthesis on both knees. What other methods are there?
Hi, Thank you for your info, but some of these are ok if you have all the items around you, which many people do not have when outside. I myself have had two knee replacement’s, and it is almost impossible to get back up where there is nothing to help you, trying to put your knees on the ground is overpowering with pain. There is not very often anyone around to help if you live in certain areas.
So maybe you could work on a solution for the thousands of people who have this problem.🤔🤔
We should have something devised….I’ve wanted an Antebellum hoop skirt frame for years and years.
Or….what did Rosie of the Jetson's use? She had wheels?
Try devising something to pull up with. Use a surface mount D Ring on a window frame. Use a web belt, an emergency tow line, something that wouldn’t cut the hands. Need a boost to get to a sitting position and then up from there. I have a fused ankle, not enough flex to get to a couch or chair.
Each time something has happened , it’s been different. I have super balanced little giant, steps wide enough to sit.
Leave it up to use for books and plants. Last time, I didn’t have arm lift to get to the bottom step. I’ll devise a wedge, an inclined plane, a ramp.
Will be able to skootch backwards to get to that bottom step. I’ll keep it near a low lying chest which is bolted to the floor.
We have to plan. Work with others for ideas. Plan. What I’ve learned is each fall has been different. Last one, I had no arm strength whatever.
Before that, I realized, yes, knees hurt…but a voice said…30 seconds…get up, end of problem. Oh . Yeahright. Knees hurt. But the object is…get up.
Devise. Avoid going outside unless others are around. Handrails can be made DIY. Use inexpensive material. I used rebar.
Instead of expensive wood railing, I cut down a dogwood sapling. Done.
Use an aluminum walker. Some, free for the asking. I figured out easily…rollator is fine for airport, but not for uneven outdoor walking,it throws me off leaning forward.
If you use a three wheeled electric cart just for the route you are concerned with…that might be the answer.
It’s maddening that designers don’t help. It’s crazy that we don’t plan better. Cost warehouse has a seating system that has a pullout that would be helpful in a fall.
Furniture could be intuitive, but noooooo.
Thank you so much for this life-saving information!!
Thanks for sharing And God 💕🙏❤️💖💞 Bless U Dr Doug ❤️❤️💕
When I fell on the stairs and found myself on the landing with a broken foot I had to scoot down the remaining steps on my butt. When I tried to stand I couldn’t put any weight on my foot so I had to crawl to the couch and pull myself up so I could lay down and elevate my foot and call for help. It required surgery to repair.
Such good information thank you so much 😊
My legs are weak and I cannot kneel, I fell out in a field and I thought we were going to have to call for help, but my poor husband was able to help me, but it was difficult for him! 😢
I like that young grinning dude .adding some levity
When I fell I couldn’t kneel on my knees (too boney). I guess the scoot method would work.
Thank you so very much.
The best!
You need to teach how to get up without using knees. I have two replaced knees. Kathy
A friend who was a former nurse said if there is nothing available then the only option would be to roll yourself like a log, hopefully not too far to go.
Thanks
What advice for a fall out side in your yard , im 87 and tripped over a garden hose fell hard , inlaid a bit then rolled over got on my sore knees and forced myself up , I was alone and had my phone in my pocket but was rolled on it could not get to it , next time I carry the phone in a purse type pocket .
I can use your methods ( have used them) for falling inside. What about outside, that is where
I panic. I fell outside on ice and couldn't get up. I was so embarrassed when my neighbor came
over to help me up. I crawled to my car in the driveway and was able to get up. I'm so afraid
of falling in public. I use a cane outside, not inside. I know I shuffle, I will try some of your
other tips for that problem. Thank you so much.
Looking at these great vids….other things pop up. I found a double cane that I'll soon be ordering.
It’s a cane with a rod, sort of a handrail with two rubber feet instead of just one.
These things are deductible as medical. There needs to be more to choose from.
We should be able to wear something to prevent a fall, a belt or something.
But…let’s do our part….walking on ice is forbidden.
It’s possible to not know there’s ice…black ice is the worst.
Personal experience of walking …real slow…..uh-huh…like that matters to ice.
Got all the way to the car, bit of a struggle with a frozen car door. Had my hand on the steering wheel, bending to sit on the seat, and I fell.
My body went almost to the waist under the car…no control to get back up. Was so mad at myself….took a good long time getting back up,now riddled in pain, and the cane flew out of reach.
Stupidity like that is costly, time and money over months…if still alive.
Thing about being sensible to avoid…we teach others to do the same, avoid. The mail will still be there. The dog can walk himself.
It’s not worth it. It’s forbidden. Bones hurt.
@@audraeden8923 Broke a shoulder that way. It was on asphalt I guess I'm just a klutz. I'm starting to walk better outside, but I still use my cane. You're so very right, it all can wait. Thanks for commenting. 🤗🤗🌹🌹
@@ShirlBussman Not a klutz….'lessen we all are.
We need to develop an : Ain’t Worth It attitude.
Never notice as well as -in orthopedist waiting room a week after an ice storm.
ER was the first phase, these wall to wall folks are here for first office appointment.
@@audraeden8923 Each time I fell I thought I had learned a valuable lesson. Then came the big one, spinal surgery. Worse thing I have ever been through. I didn't see that coming. I was healthy and doing everything I wanted to do. Sure changed my life. They found so many old fractures and I went through 2 spinal surgeries in two days. I'm trying to get back on my feet, literally. I had to learn how to walk all over again. I'm starting to get back to my old self. Audra I'm so glad that you found me. I don't talk about it much at all. ❤❤🌹🌹
thks
what happens if your knees are very painful unable get on knees
2 out if 3 of my recent falls have been outsid- one on ice, one an ankle turn while on steps. My knees & shoulders are now too weak to rely on for long.
If u have osteoarthritis of knees it is difficult to go on knees n even get up of people hve.hoq do we get up.
If you are numb from the hips down to your toes, you are not able to crawl or get up.
If you fall outside, don’t have a phone on you, and nobody can hear you, what else to do?
We should buy those orange loud whistles by the dozen. Share with friends, buy lanyards, use them.
Great intro for talking to friends about falling emergencies.
What do you think of the suggestion by my pt , to use my walker and HOP.? Left leg, blood clots, arterial graft, foot wounds with dressings, no cast! Im 70 yezrs old! That should have had a non wt beribg cast!!!!!!! I asked for one. Dr gave me a shoe that thrugh body out of allignment, i needed a spurr removed from my cervical spine because the left arm was 99% useless. Its been a 2 year jurney to try to get back independence. Dont trust every pt.
I was in the yard and no one around,
I did the first maover,
and it worked perfectly, I pulled up on a lawn chair that was sterdy enough for me to pull up on. Fortunaly it was heavy enough to support me.
@@lolajohnson2847 We need to work with others. Invite others over for coffee…give each other ideas. What if there was a fall here?
In the case of outdoor furniture….adding wood braces to heavy up…think skis..it will be there to use to get up. Don’t let furniture tip.
Heavy up with simple braces to attach, so it won’t tip.
We need to fight back with these falls….they’re getting the better of us.
Wouldn't grabbing a doorknob get you off the ground, as well?
I wouldn't think that would be safe, but whatever you have to do to get off the floor!
Or your weight could snap it off! Depends on the doorknob.
Slowly
funny guy in gym