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Getting up from the floor can be tough for some people, especially as you get older or if you have weak or injured knees. Here are a couple of techniques that may help. See Dr. Jo's other ways to get up off the floor: www.youtube.com/watch
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If you are practicing these techniques for getting up off the floor, make sure to have someone close by to help if you need it & make sure you have a chair, table, or couch near by to help pull or push yourself up as well.
The best way to get up off the floor is by getting yourself into a lunge position with your stronger leg out in front and push up at your knees to stand.
If your knees are too painful to put on the floor, you can use the downward dog or inch worm movement to “walk” your way up from the floor, but you need to be pretty flexible to do it this way.
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Hey everybody, it's Doctor Jo and lion Kali.
And.
Today, I'm gonna show you the best ways to get up from the floor.
And that ain't no lying.
So, let's get started! So if you've fallen onto the floor, or if you've gotten on the floor and you're having a really hard time getting up.
It can be a really scary thing, especially if nobody's around, to help you.
But.
Even if someone is around to help you, you really want to be able to do it correctly.
So you can help them as much as they're helping you.
So.
Then they don't get hurt.
Trying to help you up.
So, I'm gonna show you 2 different ways: today, the first one is really how you should do it, but I'll talk about the second one later that might be an alternative.
So if I'm on the floor, and I'm, either Im lying down, or I'm sitting.
What I want to try and do first is get my legs underneath me.
So, you can do it a couple of different ways.
Some people like to kind of slide to the side, and then rollover into what we call quadruped or all fours.
Once you get into this position, hopefully you're near something you can hold on to like a a chair, a table, a couch or something.
But if you're not, I'll show you how to do that, the second time I do it.
If.
You need to crawl over to something like a chair, that's ok,! You can do that.
And! Then you want to take your stronger leg and sometimes maybe you don't have a stronger leg.
But if you feel like you have a stronger leg, let's say my right side is my stronger leg.
Im going to slide it forward and try to get into a lunge position.
So I'm going really slow now.
So some of you might say well, I can't stay in that position, I'll.
Do it quickly when I do it at the end in full? So you can see how quickly you can do it.
So, once I get here, then I'm gonna bring my hands to my knees: here.
Now, if the chair or a couch or something is here.
Instead of bringing you hands to your knees, you can bring it to the chair.
So.
Then I would go here and here.
And.
Then, as I try to stand up, I'm gonna push up with my hands and I'm gonna push up with the stronger leg.
Almost just like a lunge.
So, then I'm pushing myself up and then bringing myself up like that.
So.
Again, that's a slower way of doing it.
I'm gonna! Do it quickly because you want to kind of do it quickly? You want to do it safely, but you don't want to be stuck in each spot at one time.
So! That's how you would do it with a chair.
I'm gonna.
Do it the full way without the chair just using my leg.
Now I had some people say, I'll go back to this real quick.
Don't push down on your knee,? Don't push down on your knee, especially if you have a hurt knee.
Well, this bone, this femur bone.
Actually, when we're going to stand, up, rolls and glades downward.
So.
It's almost like you're gliding it how it's supposed to.
It goes down as we come.
Up.
So you're not really pushing it in a direction.
It's not supposed to go.
As we come up, see how it rolls down.
So you're, almost actually helping yourself by doing that.
So.
That's not something that you shouldn't be doing unless it's just painful to put the pressure.
There., So, I'm gonna come back down.
So! If I'm on the floor and I, don't think I can just hop you.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring my legs, around, put them to the side, Roll over.
Bring.
My knee up, push up and come up like that.
So, that's the process., And I know I'm making it look easy because I don't have a hard time getting up from the floor.
But.
If you practice, this, make sure somebody's with you just in case.
Make sure you have something to hold on to.
If there's something around, even if you have to crawl to it, that's probably the best way to do it with something nice and sturdy.
So, I'm gonna show you another way cause sometimes I've had people say, I can't do this lunge position, because if this is my bad leg, I'm putting a lot of pressure on it like, maybe if you've had a knee replacement or something and that's just super uncomfortable., So I'm gonna show you another way.
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So there is an alternative.
Way.
You have to be pretty flexible, to be able to do it.
So this is why I don't always teach it to my patients.
But I do have some patients who maybe have had a back surgery, and sometimes this is a little bit easier for them, because their legs are really weak.
So, it's almost like getting into a downward dog position or what maybe we would call an inch worm.
So.
Then you're, taking your knees out of it.
But.
You need to be pretty flexible in your hamstrings to do.
This., So, I'm, just gonna show you how I would do it in the inch worm, style.
I'm gonna move the chair, first.
Ok.
So, basically, if you're in this position,- and if you know a little bit about Yoga, you want to kind of go and get yourself into a downward dog position.
So.
If you can't really get on your knees at all.
Even if you feel like this is too uncomfortable.
What I would say, is then roll on to your stomach.
And, then.
So, once you get into the position on your stomach, you're gonna start bringing yourself up into what we call a downward dog., Or I'm gonna show you an alternate way.
If you don't have really flexible hamstrings.
So, if you have flexible hamstrings, you would kind of get yourself into a push up position and then you would start walking your feet towards you.
So.
This would be kind of that downward dog, and then start bringing your hands towards you, and then come up that way.
So see I'm, taking my knees out of it, but you have to be pretty flexible in your hamstrings.
So.
If you're not, then you would almost do it more like I would call and inch worm.
So same way.
Starting.
You'd kind of roll over onto your tummy.
You'd start to get up in that pushup position, and then keep your knees.
Bent.
So then you're coming up this way, and then, as you start rocking back, then your start pushing yourself up that way.
So there's a couple of different options.
Those might not work for you.
If you're still having a hard time getting up off the floor, call your physical therapist, and you can work on that in the clinic.
So there you have it.
Those were the best was to get up from the floor.
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