Hey guys.
Angie Miller here with AFAA, and I'm
glad you joined me here for more education, motivation, and tips
to take our teaching to the next level.
So last week, I talked to you about neuromotor training
for older adults and the importance and some safety
issues that we talked about.
One of them was doing or teaching
floor-to-standing transfer.
One thing I do want to add is that I
think we need to teach floor-to-standing transfer
any time we're working with older adults,
whether we're doing balance training
or any type of training.
Floor-to-standing transfer is pivotal for safety
when we're coming up off the floor into a standing position.
So the way that I'm going to teach you today,
you would either have them start in supine or prone.
I'm going to start in supine position.
And then I just have them raise one arm
and then put the opposite foot flat on the floor.
So they have a bent knee, and they
have a stable foot here and the arm up above their head.
And then you have them roll over onto that extended arm.
So from here, I'm going to have them hoist themselves up
onto kind of that prop position and then walk their way up
onto their palms.
So they've got their knees bent here,
and they've got some support.
They've got their legs and their hands.
And then from here, I'm going to have
them work their way on to all fours, onto quadruped position.
So the safest way to go from here from quadruped position
would be to have a chair or a wall or something
stable where they would sort of crawl their way up.
And then you've got your base here,
and then you can have them bend one knee so that they've
got a little bit of safety here with this foot,
so that they've got a knee and a foot,
and they're crawling their way up.
And then, they're just using that stable object
to help them get up into that standing position.
But let's say that they don't need that stable object quite
yet.
So then they're on a quadruped position.
They have a couple of options still from here.
You can have them sort of walk their way back to their feet
and then walk their way up their legs into standing position.
The thing about that, as you can imagine,
that requires a lot of upper-body strength.
So the third option in quadruped--
the first and safest is to use a stable object.
The second is to walk the hands back
if they have the upper body strength.
The third-- but this does require some extensibility,
and it also requires some lower-body strength--
they match their foot with their hand,
and they can use this hand to hoist themselves up and then
walk this foot in and then walk their way slowly up
their legs into a standing position.
So that's the way that I teach floor-to-standing transfer.
There's other ways to teach it.
I hope that this helps you.
If you work with older adults, it
is a really pivotal, important skill
that we should teach older adults any time
that we're working with them.
So my name is Angie Miller.
I'm so glad you joined me today.
If you want to connect with me on social media,
it's Angie Miller Fitness on Instagram
and Angie Miller Fit on Twitter and on Facebook.
So thank you so much.
Keep doing what you love and loving what you do, and I
will see you next week.