I understand I was just thinking not so much for protection of breaking something but to make it so one doesn't slip so easy. Like those bath mats have traction. Cathie have you been tested for osteoporosis? Maybe your bones are so weak that you fall easily. My mom takes fosomax and thinks it has helped her. My endo just wants me to take calcium with vitamin d and I take seperate magnesium and also glucosamine msn.