Fall prevention

Furthermore, if the stretcher is equipped with safety belts or straps, they must be fastened across the patient.

This is a fundamental, foundational requirement for fall prevention in any healthcare setting.

Because even if they seem perfectly fine, things change rapidly.

A patient recovering from an exhausting procedure might simply fall asleep and roll near the edge.

using whole body vibration for bone building and outcomes.

And then we get into some of the other really important pieces of using these devices around actually fall prevention and balance and what the research shows there.

So if you're thinking whole body vibration I would encourage you to check out this video.

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And there is something that happens with the way that your muscles are communicating with your brain when you're on this device.

And it can really change your ability to balance, stand on one leg.

And I would love to know your thoughts on whether or not this has been studied from a fall prevention perspective.

I haven't seen it, but maybe you have.

So the first one being strength and weight-bearing exercise.

The second one, balance and fall prevention.

Third, moving through your feet.

And three, getting enough nutrients to support your bones.

And we know that that can be devastating.

So, you know, just that ability to have the fall prevention is also inclusive within the book.

So vital means also not being afraid.

You have the vitality to go out.

So next week, we will pick up where we left off.

The doctors come back to talk about balance and about Tai Chi, which has more research behind it than I would have guessed.

Dr. Kim puts it at about 1500 studies and fall prevention is one key benefit that keeps coming up and has become very relevant to me.

And they'll teach us three of the animal walks that they include, including one where you really stand on a single leg for a period of time.

You do it in a safe way so that your body doesn't freak out, which lowers spasticity, which lowers stress, muscle weakness, which lowers that threat response and that loss of balance.

And so by training the body to move really well slowly, we can then incrementally add speed to a stronger foundation, which is the basis of fall prevention.

So one of the issues that comes up is we have a lot of patients that have moved into a progressive stage of the disease and exercise can feel like an uphill battle.

How do you keep those patients motivated?