When I go to the emergency room, they put a falling risk band around my wrist, along with an allergy band and my name and code band. I’ve fallen enough that I now can fall without getting hurt, though I did fall a few weeks ago and pulled a muscle in my back, even though I never thought I used my back. I landed almost flat on the ground with my whole body with my bad shoulder hitting the ground, didn’t hurt it a bit. The problem was a muscle in my back got knotted and needed to be massaged out.

I’ve been in the emergency room at least three or four times in the last couple years for Afib and they don’t make me use a walker and they can see I’m quite able to walk. Last time I was in the emergency room there was only one other person there, never an overcrowding issue.

If you fall you may find that you can break a bone in your wrist or sprain it badly by using it to brace your fall. Done both in the last 10 years. You can let hands brace you a little, but you can’t let them do the whole job.