All but one of these techniques can be done without using your hands.
How to get heavy people off the floor.
This is far better than having their caregiver or loved one risk getting hurt while assisting the fallen person in floor recovery.
The human floor lift can be placed in a central location of the home.
Grandma weights 200 pds she slipped to the floor unhurt but not strong enough to get back to her feet.
Where only nurses may be available to help accomplish this.
At the outset each study volunteer was asked to sit down on the floor and then get.
Getting up off the floor.
There has to be a technique used in nursing homes etc.
There are several options here so you can pick the one that works the best for you now and work to improve the others.
The researchers followed 2 002 adults ages 51 to 80 for an average of 6 3 years.
This lift gently lifts a person off of the floor and back up onto their feet minimizing the significance of a fall and ensuring the person isn t trapped on the floor until help arrives.
Fortunately most senior falls do not result in significant injuries but an estimated 20 do result in some form of trauma to the fallen.
I made a short video showing these ideas.
The human floor lift gives fall victims the ability to get back up on their own.
The first method i ll share is the cross sit get up.
Being a physical therapist i always prefer that the fallen person find a way off the floor themselves when able to do so.
In under 10 minutes it shows 10 different fall recovery techniques.
How do two people lift her dead weight up off the floor without hurting her or themselves.
In this video i ll show you how to get up from the floor.