All but one of these techniques can be done without using your hands.
How to get heavy people off the floor.
Teaches creative out of the box thinking for getting up from the floor after a fall.
This is far better than having their caregiver or loved one risk getting hurt while assisting the fallen person in floor recovery.
The researchers followed 2 002 adults ages 51 to 80 for an average of 6 3 years.
The human floor lift gives fall victims the ability to get back up on their own.
How do two people lift her dead weight up off the floor without hurting her or themselves.
The first method i ll share is the cross sit get up.
Getting up off the floor.
I had a small epiphany while sitting in my living room a few weeks ago and realized there are actually many things that people can do to successfully get up from the floor.
Fortunately most senior falls do not result in significant injuries but an estimated 20 do result in some form of trauma to the fallen.
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.
There are several options here so you can pick the one that works the best for you now and work to improve the others.
There has to be a technique used in nursing homes etc.
Grandma weights 200 pds she slipped to the floor unhurt but not strong enough to get back to her feet.
I made a short video showing these ideas.
The human floor lift can be placed in a central location of the home.
In this video i ll show you how to get up from the floor.
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.