February 23, 2017: It’s not often that physical therapists are mentioned in the same sentence as paratroopers, stunt professionals, and martial arts instructors, but that’s what happened in a January 2017 article from the New York Times titled “The Right Way to Fall.”
According to the article, falls cause more than one-third of injury-related emergency room visits, and while avoiding falls in the first place is ideal, falling safely when gravity strikes is second best.
In this episode of Move Forward Radio, a physical therapist who was interviewed for the New York Times article, discusses what falling safely means, what it entails, and provides tips to help people fall safely.
