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Old 03-13-2008, 01:28 PM #1
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Lately as I walk and want to stop or slow down suddenly,I do the reverse and speed up causing me to lose my balance.Anybody have a solution for this problem.
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Lately as I walk and want to stop or slow down suddenly,I do the reverse and speed up causing me to lose my balance.Anybody have a solution for this problem.
use a cane or do as i do when it hits, have a solid object picked out to stop yourself with. also try to keep your heels contacting the ground first. Walking on your tippy-toes greatly exacerbates the problem, as does having anything in your hands.

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This is the reason I have trouble going to the supermarket. I have to keep stopping and starting, and I've almost fallen a couple of times. I find myself holding on the the shelves or the cart to keep my balance. I find it helpful to take very slow careful steps like there are suction cups on the bottoms of my feet. This ensures, as Charlies says, to keep the heal planted on the ground.

The other thing I have found helpful is a good solid pair of shoes. I recently purchased some Dr. Scholls and they have a nice solid sole and heal on them. This really helps with the balance as the feet are planted flat on the ground and not turned in with the worn heal or sole.

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If you can sing a drill to yourself, kinda like Marine boot canp it might helo. Otherwise just repeating :heel riem heel toe helps
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If you can sing a drill to yourself, kinda like Marine boot canp it might helo. Otherwise just repeating :heel riem heel toe helps
When I was young I was born with a right clubbed foot, and I had to "learn" to walk heal-toe, heal-toe because I had the tendency to want to go up on my toes. To this day I still walk heal-toe out of habit, although it has become more difficult as I tend to shuffle and scuff a little bit more now, but I still try to focus and concentrate on the heal-toe movement.

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