Falls Prevention Camrose — because staying independent is a physical skill you can train.
Falls Prevention Camrose for Healthy Ageing
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalisation among older adults in Canada, and the consequences go well beyond the injury itself a fall often marks the point where someone starts doing less, which makes the next fall more likely. Falls Prevention Camrose focuses on reducing these risks while helping older adults stay active and confident.
The important part is that falls risk is largely modifiable. Strength, balance and gait all respond to training at any age, and exercise programmes that specifically challenge balance and build lower limb strength are among the better-evidenced interventions in the whole of rehabilitation.
What does not work is being told to be careful. Caution reduces activity, activity loss reduces capacity, and reduced capacity increases risk. Doing more, safely and progressively, is the intervention.
What We Assess
Strength
Particularly the legs — getting out of a chair without hands is one of the more useful things to measure and to train.
Balance
Standing, walking, turning, and dual-tasking, since most real falls happen while doing something else.
Gait
Speed, step length and how you turn. Walking speed is one of the better single predictors of function.
Dizziness
A frequent and treatable contributor — see vestibular rehabilitation.
Footwear and feet
Often overlooked. See foot and ankle and orthotics.
Confidence
Fear of falling changes how people move and is worth treating in its own right.
What a Programme Looks Like
Falls Prevention Camrose can include progressive lower limb strengthening, balance work that is genuinely challenging rather than token, and practice of the movements that matter to you stairs, getting off the floor, carrying, getting in and out of a vehicle.
It should be hard enough to produce change. A programme you can do comfortably is not building capacity. It should also be something you will actually keep doing, which means it has to fit your life rather than an ideal one.
Where arthritis, joint replacement or a neurological condition is part of the picture, that shapes the programme — see arthritis physiotherapy, post-surgical rehabilitation and neurological physiotherapy.
Coverage & Direct Billing
We direct bill Alberta Blue Cross, Great-West Life, Sun Life Financial, Cowan Insurance Group, Manulife Financial, Maximum Benefit, Desjardins, Johnson Insurance and Green Shield Canada. We also handle WCB claims and motor vehicle accident claims directly.
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Book an Appointment in Camrose
Less steady than you used to be? Book an assessment — this is one of the more fixable things we see.
Central Physiotherapy & Massage · 6028 48 Avenue, Camrose, AB · (780) 673-0573
Monday to Thursday 9:00am–7:00pm · Friday 9:00am–5:00pm