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What have you done to improve balance?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Jan 26 1:51pm | Replies (100)Comment receiving replies
Hi, Barb
Not way out of proportion at all! I was just talking to the friend who was with me two weeks ago when I fell in a crowded coffeeshop. He told me he thought I was making "more of fall of it than I needed," that if I'd just let gravity take its course, I'd have ended up making a soft landing on my knees. But in my mind (mid-fall), I was in "crisis"––instead of just going for a soft landing, I grabbed a nearby table and brought everything down with me: coffee mugs, teas, cookies, croissants, cheesecake, the whole drinkable/edible nine yards. Hardly a soft landing. 🙂
Ray (@ray666)
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Hi, Ray (@ray666)
Oh, yikes. Your friend didn't appreciate your desperation, didhe? Then again, this is pretty much the outcome that could elicit some comic relief, for a theatrical guy. Did you try to mask it over by saying, "I meant to do that!" -?
I'll bet, though, that it was a pretty horrifying experience. Glad you got through it without getting yourself into a REAL mess. 🤕 ~ Barb
In those precious few seconds you have while you’re falling, as your life is passing before your eyes, there’s not much chance to yell to Alexa or Siri to ask “What’s the best way to fall”?! A Tone & Balance class here tries to teach us in hopes it might flash in front of us if we must fall. One thing I know is to definitely avoid landing on your hip - that’s the hardest injury to recover from. I’m not a trainer so I don’t want to mislead… but I’m not sure about the soft landing on your knees either, though you may have known it was going to be very very soft. While embarrassing, grabbing the table was very smart to lessen the impact! We’re trained to let the wrist take the break if we must, but ouch, how do you aim for that in those fleeting few seconds!! I’m continuing with balance training to just downright stay upright because I don’t trust myself to fall correctly!
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We need a "Yikes!" response. That sounds like something I would do. My last fall was over a board and straight into a wagonful of potting soil - gardeners really get into their work!