Rant alert.
Are you a furniture hugger or toucher using furniture for balance instead of a cane or walker? Have you or friends even tried general conditioning and balance exercises, especially if no preexisting conditions are prohibiting exercise? Using furniture, objects and/or walls is considered bad especially if one can use a cane or walker. It's too easy to misjudge or over estimate the strength of furniture or it will simply break, especially when weight and/or force is put on it from an angle or position it wasn't designed for.
I know someone who resents being scolded for furniture touching and the physical therapy that has been prescribed for them. Several ambulance trips to hospital in less than a year that involved strength related issues. Part of the problem is that they can't handle instruction from the therapists let alone doctors. They simply don't want to be told what to do. A yet they complain about costs and medical care in the US. Got news patients like them are part of the reason for high cost because they are the patient that wants a pill or procedure for everything. They can't handle the fact they will have to actually work at their health beyond a prescription drug or surgery. Got them to the point where they'll walk a little more but they can't stand the simplest of exercises they should incorporate into their daily life/routine.
As someone who has worked out their entire life and did things like vitamins I have no sympathy or pitty for someone that refuses to take vitamins or will not do some very basic fitness exercises & routines on a regular basis. They won't even take their prescribed drugs all the time-without reason, it's a personal "choice" so they feel like they have some 'control. But they cannot tell why they think the drug or exercise is bad.
Point being if you can still workout/work on your fitness-do it. Especially if you can't stand hospitals, questions and more questions. And of course use a cane or walker rather than an object or wall. At least a cane or walker one can control where they go. If one relies on furniture, walls and/or avoids open spaces they will be restricted.
Are you a furniture hugger or toucher using furniture for balance instead of a cane or walker? Have you or friends even tried general conditioning and balance exercises, especially if no preexisting conditions are prohibiting exercise? Using furniture, objects and/or walls is considered bad especially if one can use a cane or walker. It's too easy to misjudge or over estimate the strength of furniture or it will simply break, especially when weight and/or force is put on it from an angle or position it wasn't designed for.
I know someone who resents being scolded for furniture touching and the physical therapy that has been prescribed for them. Several ambulance trips to hospital in less than a year that involved strength related issues. Part of the problem is that they can't handle instruction from the therapists let alone doctors. They simply don't want to be told what to do. A yet they complain about costs and medical care in the US. Got news patients like them are part of the reason for high cost because they are the patient that wants a pill or procedure for everything. They can't handle the fact they will have to actually work at their health beyond a prescription drug or surgery. Got them to the point where they'll walk a little more but they can't stand the simplest of exercises they should incorporate into their daily life/routine.
As someone who has worked out their entire life and did things like vitamins I have no sympathy or pitty for someone that refuses to take vitamins or will not do some very basic fitness exercises & routines on a regular basis. They won't even take their prescribed drugs all the time-without reason, it's a personal "choice" so they feel like they have some 'control. But they cannot tell why they think the drug or exercise is bad.
Point being if you can still workout/work on your fitness-do it. Especially if you can't stand hospitals, questions and more questions. And of course use a cane or walker rather than an object or wall. At least a cane or walker one can control where they go. If one relies on furniture, walls and/or avoids open spaces they will be restricted.
