Improve Your Balance When Walking with ONE Simple Trick (for 50+)

[@suefamalam7443]

So helpful- I tripped and lost confidence and started to walk looking to the floor immediately in front of me. You make perfect sense. Thank you for the advice.

[@johnroller5198]

Hi Will…this cogent and superbly illustrated advice of looking up and further afield kept from falling over on my afternoon walk in Central Park…never realized how subtlety my center of gravity has shifted..you are a blessing to our senior community…❤️

[@tareichadwick8270]

You are a lifesaver. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@vijayakumarp7593]

Our Adorable Will, all your videos are packed with very essential tips to help elders overcome from small fears to bigger lapses . Also preventive measures to help otherwise. What a blessing! May God bless you always. We love your genuine work and attitude. Thank you, thank you, thank you Will.

[@emmkaa2099]

Will, you're terrific, thank you.

[@cathyphegley7848]

This helped immensely…..although I do strive for upright posture and achieve it, I need to continue to focus on my core as I begin walking regularly again. What I find difficult is looking side to side while walking and crossing a street. Getting better with practice. Your drawings aren’t quite rubbish my friend….but I would keep my day job🤣💕

[@FrancieMacleod-j6h]

That was me all the way, real insecure about falling. Walking the new way feels right, so thanks again for excellent information.

[@Coffeeismyhappyplace]

I needed this for my 10 k walking. The surface is smooth not like uneven side walks. My back really hurts when I’m done. So I will definitely remember to do this.

[@triarb5790]

Using your 'toe raise' exercises and standing glute exercises daily, I have been able to 'tilt myself back upright', and I am no longer worried about tripping. It's given back me my confidence 😊. Oh and at 61, my drawing ability has never extended beyond stick figures so I think they are just fine!

[@mm1788]

You should give lessons on speaking. You have the clearest and best explanation for what you are describing. Thank you!

[@erinpruitt201]

Will your content is outstanding. Keep up the great videos!!!

[@PVVI2015]

Very good explanation! I just received your book two days ago! I’m very fit and active at 74, and I have a fitness routine in place to keep me that way. But I am learning some very helpful age specific exercises from your book. Thank you!

[@millydaisy29]

You explain things so clearly, thank you for all your posts as I enjoy them a lot and find them very helpful 🌸

[@RaymondManlapas]

Again, thank you for sharing that one simple yet beneficial tip on the right way to walk! Its been engaging to watch and learn, indeed!

[@mecon5829]

So true. Your videos are always helpful for elderly people like us. Very good explanation, thank you very much. ❤

[@TChing-gf3wl]

The way he explained the problems with the way some people walk wrongly and sometimes can cause them imbalance and cause them to fall. Thank you for sharing this video with everyone.

[@HT-Physio]

More than happy to help!

[@juliestringer393]

Love the book. It has so much more in it than I was expecting.

[@normbabbitt4325]

Wow! Thank you for the clarity with which you teach exercises for those of us over fifty. Much appreciated!

[@catherineloftus1376]

Excellent advice, and it made perfect sense, I'm definitely going to remember this technique when walking outside. Thanks.

[@MsVivian99]

Thank you for this guidance! Very helpful, I’m finding myself starting to lean forward, and now can see what is happening!! I believe this will help enormously.

[@marzymarrz5172]

This is very practical help and I appreciate your helpfulness with what might appear to be very small things. But, I am at an age where I know that a lot of things good and bad start with one small move.

[@camillaholst7321]

Thank you so much. I really like your channel, and find your explanations and tips very useful.🎉

[@DNA350ppm]

Correct spectacles, and less to carry in both of my hands, and not trying to catch the bus to catch a train (one every second hour only) - there are many lessons to learn in the age I find it the hardest to learn new habits. I fell forward on my face, hands, knees, and then had to have a new shoulder, a "knob", of metal operated in. Such a big nuisance with many complications. It was just me in the accident, stumbling on an uneven surface where my shoe-tip stuck. The silver lining was the kind people, who rushed to help, they called the ambulance and stood by my side until I was off in it, bloody and sore and very faint in my head. Listen to Will, you all, you will not regret it!

[@myrnaleon8464]

Very good video. Thanks. 😊

[@M_Ladd]

Great job! Thank you very much!

[@ndalopaul4245]

Thanks for that lesson

[@susanschultz2355]

I walk 5 miles or 10,000 steps every day at a very fit 75 years old. I use walking sticks so it is easy to look 15 feet ahead and because of that and the sticks I have great posture. Love your videos!

[@jerzybaczyk2769]

Certainly good advice and description of problems with the center of gravity. To have but such an opportunity, I would add stretching of the hip flexors, the shortening of which often causes bending and shifting the center of gravity forward.

[@maebellerechtman7354]

Love ❤️ all your videos! Thanks so much! I’m definitely buying your book!

[@kate60]

Excellent

[@testinginstruments7785]

Wonderful advice. I used to walk 15000 steps everyday. I will follow this henceforth.

[@specialistcarmarketing]

These are very practical and nice short videos.

[@anitakher1001]

Love it needed this advice badly thank you so much

[@peterchristopher5905]

This is very helpful.

[@yifatozeri7353]

So simple so helpfull

[@anneleonas7813]

Wonderful advice! Thank you!

[@srinithyamangalmayananda69]

Thanks very much. Will start following your advice !

[@rellaharper312]

I believe a good majority of the elderly walk bent over as they have weak upper core strength making it difficult to retain an upright position. Also walkers teach them to walk incorrectly as well all hunched over. I enjoy your videos thank you for all your advice.

[@MaureenFarrah]

Thank you. Very clearly explained Will now practice walking with a straight posture.

[@memelc5655]

Good reminder ❤

[@Alice-oe4kd]

I have been watching your videos for a while and find them helpful. Actually I just purchased you book. This video Is a good illustration of one of my problems ... Looking down for fear of tripping. Are the "exercises" in the book shown in the videos? That would be very helpful for me. Thank you for doing these. Virginia, USA

[@hazydreamer7965]

Thank you, I will keep that in mind. Actually, ever since my lower back was operated, I tend to walk kind of bent and staring at my toes.

[@loraineashton4899]

Simple concise perfect thankyou this is very valuable info and easy to implement ❤

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Thank you, great tip.

[@PammyR56]

I tried this today. I was amazing how hard it was on my neck.

[@edwardizhonig204]

Yess- you get it! I am so bent forward and have two kinds of scoliosis ! I will try - thank you so much - you’re a gem! ❤️

[@HT-Physio]

Wishing you all the best! :)

[@stevewhalen6973]

Exactly what I've been doing and I'm always feeling off balance when walking . Thanks !

[@HT-Physio]

Glad I've been able to offer some helpful advice!

[@olumuyiwaogundeyi6444]

Thanks!

[@mrstevek118]

Thank you for this ❤️

[@litamendoza8716]

Thank you for the great tip I will keep it in mind👍

[@arkashasokarajan488]

Thank you so much.

[@a.pacana1238]

Thank you Dok i will try this to ny husband falling fiwn becayse of lost of balance. Thank tou so nuch ! Happy Thanksgiving ! God bless

[@nota8386]

Watching this while walking home from work, hope I don't trip😊

[@patwarburtonr7488]

Thank you Lord God that we are here to see in another New Year, it is only through your love, grace and mercy. Let our faith deepen in this time of newness and let all our thoughts and intentions be pleasing to you. 🙏 🙏

[@sandrajohnston9745]

Thank you for this video. I recognize this problem in my walking, but have not been able to correct it. I have had my lumbar vertebrae fused (a necessary surgery, as my next step was becoming wheelchair bound) and my stooping forward comes from the lumbar area, not higher up. Especially when I walk uphill. Downhill is no problem, I walk standing straight up. But the minute I start uphill, even just a small grade, my upper body tilts forward and pretty soon my lower back is killing me and my legs aren't moving properly. I have to stop and relax all muscles, then start again. But nothing I have tried so far has made any lasting progress.

[@MartinaDanielaSchreck]

Super Video!!! Thank you.

[@HT-Physio]

You're welcome!

[@MartinaDanielaSchreck]

@@HT-Physio Thank you sooo much for all your Video's with simple easy doing Tipps. You are so right I was walking and mostly looking on the Floor. But now I walk and look straight ahaid, because of my neck etc. Now I stand up from the sofa without any help, (meaning holding at the Armlehne" left or right side) with your simple Trick etc. etc. GREETINGS FROM GERMANY

[@sheikdawood6417]

Suberp simple trick. Thanks a lot

[@jonwright4418]

Thank you it makes sense. We'll done!

[@HT-Physio]

Great to hear!

[@hemapiyaratna2888]

Great advice

[@HT-Physio]

Thank you!

[@eileenreed1382]

Many thanks for some more very helpful tips. 😊

[@HT-Physio]

Very happy to help!

[@Debbie7860]

I'm 56 and as soon as I leave my front door I'm all over the place😮I will try this 😊

[@HT-Physio]

Wishing you all the best!

[@jeanhansel5805]

I am one of the people that cannot look fifteen feet ahead when walking. I live in the middle of a city, and the only way to avoid the hazards of falling is to look directly down in order to avoid those hazards.. The hazards include uneven cement sidewalks (oftentimes the result of a street tree whose roots are exposed and causing the sidewalk to buckle) , holes in the sidewalk, and cracked and uneven roads, to name a few. I am glad you put a disclaimer on this video that the instructions given are not right for everybody. I do use a cane.

[@adelabrouchy]

Is a vivid description of the sidewalks in the city I live. But I must add dog poops and young people sleeping on the floor when you go out and trespass your entrance door, plus slippery nylon bags scattered around the trash containers. I use a cane when walking outside. 💙🌻🍀

[@irenefernandez8680]

Thak you.

[@HT-Physio]

You're welcome!

[@annburge291]

Elderly people tend to look at where they are stepping because their eyesight is bad and therefore it's difficult to focus and remember. Try to walk where the terrain is relatively smooth and easy to navigate to build confidence.

[@stephencrowther524]

Nothing to do with eyesight,ever heard of glasses ? It’s to do with posture,stiffness and lack of confidence with balance.

[@annburge291]

@@stephencrowther524 by the time one is elderly, it's common to use bi or trifocal glasses. This is usually fine in your sixties. However with our tendencies for high carb and inclusion of industrialised food products this tends not only to affect the eyes, but also the brain which makes interpreting the visual world more difficult. Sometimes our useful visual aids in middle life add a level of complexity in later life because glasses are not designed for cataracts, macula degeneration, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

[@bru1015]

I agree! 😊

[@christinemunyao1803]

Hi, do you have exercise for someone with spondilitis and back spurs?

[@christinarobinson1808]

I have nerve damage after spinal surgery so need to know where I'm putting my feet so tend to look down when I'm walking,which makes me feel unstable.

[@lvvenky9973]

Sir your book is not available on Amazon India. An eBook would be convenient (Kindle)

[@anitasathe4934]

Yes now I knew how to stop falling, very useful tip you given, my English is not good but you can understand what's meaning, how can I get book please let me know

[@MichaelFenley]

Will. Could you also argue that when climbing up step ladders to lean forwards as much as possible to shift the center of gravity forwards as much as possible to keep from falling off?

[@lym3204]

Walking bent over also causes one's feet to land on the forefoot. This reduces the ability to clear slight irregularities in the sidewalk. Walking with a straighter back allows you to easier land on the heel of your front foot reducing the risk of tripping because the front of your foot will be raised. You must also lift instead of drag, your back foot quickly to avoid tripping with your back foot. I see exactly what my mother is doing wrong but it is not easy to correct old habits.

[@rechmbrs]

Excellent tips. I'd like to make a recmendation to go with it. You must wear fitted footwear that fits your feet and is either tie or velcro closure shoes. Slippers are worse than bare feet but shouldn't be worn either. High top shoes are very helpful if one has weak ankles. Footwear needs to have at least some tread on the sole.

[@dbyers3897]

Some of us have trouble bending to tie or fasten shoes but I certainly agree, good sturdy footwear are vital.

[@anthonyofarrell]

Bare feet are the best.

[@ajaykumara7158]

Thanks Dr I fell the stairs bt not looking down where 2 steps missing I overlooked and over stepped resulting in Achilles tendon torn fully.

[@juliahowell7250]

This is fine unless you live in a country with many uneven surfaces as well as peripheral neuropathy in feet & ankles. I have fallen one a year for the past 3 years & 2 were head injuries without any bracing with arms & hands. Thanks for the vision tip with changing center of gravity but fearful of tripping over uneven & potholed surfaces.

[@boxcar2847]

This and the walk down a 15 degree incline road to the letterbox; especially in the wintertime leaves me feeling no choice but to gaze downward to monitor where each step goes.

[@dbyers3897]

True enough since both my falls happened when I wasn't looking where I was stepping. I think they have nice sidewalks in London.

[@joseenoel8093]

Well if you go to Portugal be aware the cars get parked on the sidewalks and many of the sidewalks are a type of large cobble stone, very uneven, good walking shoes are a must!

[@gardeniainbloom812]

@@dbyers3897 When maintained. We have many tree roots that do damage. Often safer to walk in the road than the pavement.

[@junethiel632]

I do not have a problem with balance, and besides, I carry a walking stick to help prevent falls (our village pathways are lovely but with very uneven paving). My issue, I believe, was caused when I sat on a low chair, packing and unpacking household stuff in order to relocate twice in 2 years, I have had two lower back fusions, one early in the 1980's and then another one in 2009. With the second one, all the old hardware was removed from my spine, and flexible titanium rods were installed. I do not know for sure, but rather suspect that these rods have bent slightly during my many hours of packing and unpacking (I had no help). When I try to straighten up my back, (which has always been very straight, as posture has always been important to me), it feels as if my back is stuck at a certain point. and when I stand for more than 2 minutes, I experience terrible pain. When I walk (which I love to do), - I slowly but surely get more bent over, due to bad lower back pain. I also still have a good singing voice, and often get asked to sing in our little concerts, but find I can no longer do this whilst standing. I sit very straight on a bar stool now - fortunately, my singing teacher had taught me all the techniques for singing whilst seated! But I LONG to stand up straight, walk upright and be pain free. Any suggestions, please? I have tried all the various exercises and applications you give us so helpfully in your videos, but I continue to struggle....

[@avrumgolub2735]

How does one combine your advice with fear of tripping and the inability to get up after a fall?

[@privatenexus5764]

4:09 As an engineer, no its not. It's more forward than normal, but definitely nowhere near as far forward as that. If it was more forward than the tips of your toes, physics will have you falling forward.

[@richardluna1996]

Is your book available on Kindle?

[@danteguinhawa8201]

Thank you very much. Useful guide. Unfortunately, I tend to look closer in front of me (vs 15 feet) during the winter to avoid slipping on black ice etc (even to the point of walking like a penguin!)!

[@rdl8878]

I keep expecting that door to open and bump into Will.

[@suukuriido8053]

i think your drawings get the job done. The red dot ones were good.

[@lyndasoar4345]

Seems its the basic habits we need to maintain: to take our time over-posture & not let others/ourselves rush us. Its a contunal battle against confidence & safety -v- not allowing diminishing mobility to dictate our activities... Should we b reading up on 'how to fall, to minimise injury' ? Fore-thought-out = forewarned ?

[@anselmdevas1530]

What about if the roads with paverblocks which are uneven in India?

[@janicejames3005]

Thanks. I walk like a drunken sailor. I also have poor eyesight so I look down as per your drawing. I will try your suggestions.

[@mikejones9961]

thanks

[@ReikoScott]

People often walk forward due to their back injuries. What advice do you have to help them?

[@idiotsavant53]

A couple of vertebrae in my neck are fused together with arthritis due to a whiplash accident. My head juts forward and to the left. I can't straighten it and walk with good posture. I don't know what to do. And I do have balance issues especially with stairs.

[@valentinpineda247]

Unfortunately I am a diabetic with very bad foot neuropathy. I look down because i can't feel when my feet are firmly on the ground. 😢

[@natalieoj3078]

Simple yes effective yes

[@philip0987]

Wonderful logical advise thanks Will

[@HT-Physio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EdnaSanchez-sn5kx]

Enjoy the video

[@HT-Physio]

Great to hear it!

[@azizkarim]

🙏🙏🙏

[@SandraHouston30]

I tend to fall back. What causes this ?

[@shwetalil8048]

Namaste Sir, I wear calliper on my right leg, when i walk one leg is always straight. Can people like be taught how to walk confidently ani climb stairs easily. I use cane to walk, when iclimb stairs i have to lift right leg straight, its difficult. Can anybody help.

[@noorjahanjeevan5723]

❤

[@gregjillson9351]

Greetings! Good point. I need to practice looking up, more ahead and straightening my posture. But, that should not mean, like you say, we should not watch our steps just 3-5 feet immediately in front of us. It's possible for some, looking 15 feet ahead might cause a sense of "off-equilibrium" not looking/watching one step in front of the other. But, yes, may be similar to bad posture looking down constantly at one's cell phone. What about person 80+ with stooped over back due to spinal curvature? My opinion is not recommendable to get adjustments from chiropractor. Too risky at older age maybe. Thanks for your videos and caring for ppl. I certainly need to improve myself physically.

[@RichardSmallwood-du9qb]

Wrong, wrong, wrong, I walk with a slight stoop forward because if I stand upright, I can easily fall back wards, which I can't stop falling, and then am in danger of bouncing the back of my head, because I can stop myself falling forwards, by stepping a larger step forwards! ~ R

[@george6977]

👍

[@joseenoel8093]

I saw an elderly gentlemen walking with his hands behind his back, probably an imprint of how he saw his elders walking around, perhaps making it look like they're doing something, prob just a bad habit too!

[@catherineb3841]

This is very interesting, but why do you use medieval measurements like ‘feet’ ? I find this confusing. Are we talking of a man’s feet, elephant’s feet, cat’s feet ? What about a small woman’s feet like mine ?

[@loischristie871]

Hi Catherine. A foot is a standard unit of measurement used in the UK. One foot = 12 inches. We also use metric, so a foot is equivalent to 30 centimetres. Hope that's helpful!

[@virginiaromero463]

That’s the reason I lost bal@nce !