- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course.
Bob, what are you doing down there on the floor?
- I'm down on the floor and I want to get up.
- Why are you on the floor, Bob?
- I don't... I'm not gonna question
why people are on the floor
but when they end up on the floor
we're gonna show 'em how to get up.
- Okay.
- Okay?
- I think this is a really good video.
You know, we talked about being 40 and over
and these are people are 40 and 50
and it's their parents who end up on the floor.
- So we're gonna show you how to get
up from the floor by yourself.
And then we're gonna also show you in the set next video
how to help someone get off the floor
in case maybe someone that you know needs help.
Because it is a very difficult thing to do.
- You bet.
- So, alright, you're on the floor for whatever reason
if you've fallen and you broke something or something hurts
you should try to yell for help first.
And, and, but if there's nobody there
there's no phone nearby,
you don't have the alert,
you're gonna have to try to get up.
- Right, and the alert Bob's talking about,
a lot of times people have the call button,
it's just a button and it'll call for help,
you know, to work really well.
- Right. And in case let's say,
let's say my leg does hurt on this side.
We'll act as though my leg does hurt a little bit.
If it's a broken hip, you're kind of screwed
because there's really not much you can do.
You're not gonna be able to get up on a broken hip.
- Right.
- But let's say this one's hurting.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna roll
onto my good side first.
So first I'm gonna bring my legs up
One
and then two.
- Good.
- And then I'm gonna, if you have trouble rolling
you can bring your both arms up like this
and you're gonna help yourself roll over
to the side like this.
- Get a little momentum going.
- Yeah. Now you bring this leg forward
and now I'm gonna use this arm
to push up
along with my elbow here.
- There you go.
- Okay. Now I'm up onto my elbow.
Now I'm gonna try to get up even further.
And now while I'm in this position,
you just move forward a little bit
and you get right onto your knees.
All right.
Now this was the leg that was hurting,
so I'm gonna actually have to put the other leg up.
There's no other way around this.
If I'm, I'm trying to kinda get up without a chair.
- And this is probably one of the hardest things
for most people.
- Yeah.
- Because there's a, you need some strength here.
Then I'm walking my way up.
I don't know if you can see this, Nancy.
Then I'm putting one lit arm here.
- Right here
- And another one right here
and I'm gonna push up.
This is gonna be the toughest part right there.
Trying to get up.
- Right? Right.
- Yeah, so he is here.
One arm here and here.
And this really takes a lot, you know,
a fair amount of strength if you're older
or weak for whatever reason.
- The alternative, Brad, would be the chair.
Do you wanna show how, how you just
once you get to that point on your knees
you could crawl over to a chair.
- Right. So, you know, and I've talked
to people that have fallen
and they've literally clawed to their, you know
however they could get to the furniture.
- Right, slide to it.
- Yeah. So they get closer
to the sofa of the couch or the chair,
whatever it may be
get to this point,
get that stronger leg up.
And it might be this one.
- Yeah, cause then you could slide over.
- Then you don't have to go over here.
You can walk yourself up using those arms.
- And you don't even have to get all the way up.
You can just kind of go halfway up
and slide your butt over onto the chair.
- Sure. You bet.
So you can get here and get over to here.
In particular, if you, if you're wondering
if you hurt that hip, that hurt that that had
that had fallen on 'cause you're, you know
getting in the seated position
and then reassess yourself.
And if you want to try to stand up, you know
use your judgment.
Again, the best thing to do is get to a phone
and to get someone over to help you.
- One lady mentioned that too,
that she would actually put a pillow down.
She's the one that we, while we're doing this video,
hi by the way,
is that she put a pillow on and to
to get onto her knees to help her.
- So it's more comfortable.
- The big thing is, you know,
you gotta figure out the way to prevent the falls.
The other thing is to have one of those alerts on
or maybe have your cell phone with you all the time, right.
To make sure that you can call in case you're
you run into problems here.
- You bet.
- So look for our next video.
I'm gonna show you how to help get somebody up
from the the, the floor
or supine position, I was gonna say.
- Kind hard to get that out.
When you get older, sometimes talking gets to be an issue.
So once again, we got another video
on how to help your mother or father get up off the floor,
whoever it may be.
So say no more.
- Peace.
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