For anyone, experiencing a slip and fall can be extremely painful and cause a lot of harm to your body. So while it’s important for elderly people in assisted living facilities to be particularly careful about moving around to avoid slipping and falling, everyone is vulnerable to these types of injuries. Because of this, it’s wise to know how to best get yourself healing up and feeling better after something like this happens.
To help you see how this can be done and get yourself back up on your feet and feeling confident in moving around again, here are three tips for healing after a slip and fall.
Consult Your Doctor Quickly
As soon as you’ve experienced a slip and fall, it’s wise to consult your doctor and have them help you assess how much damage may have actually been done.
Especially for older people, getting back up after a slip and fall can be dangerous. So as you try to stand and move again, make sure you do so gingerly. Then, once you’ve been able to assess your own injuries a bit, if anything feels off at all, call your doctor and get seen by them. They’ll be able to see the extent of your bruises, abrasions, and tell you if it looks like you’ve broken anything. This way, you can know for sure if anything that happened during your slip and fall was major or if you’re just going to be dealing with pain and stiffness for a few days while your body recovers on its own.
Try Different Therapies To Help With Bruising
After even a minor slip and fall, you’re likely to have a lot of different bumps and bruises. And while these will heal on their own in most cases, there are also things that you can do to help speed up the recovery process.
If you’re having a hard time with your bruising after a slip and fall, you can try things like using ice therapy, heat therapy, and topical treatments to help ease the pain and reduce the look of the bruising. You can also try using elevation or even compression of the bruised area to reduce swelling and get blood flow moving back to that area.
Learn To Trust Yourself Again
One of the hardest parts about healing after you’ve had a slip and fall is learning to trust yourself and your surroundings again. Especially if the slip and fall happened quickly and took you by surprise, you might find yourself always worrying about something suddenly happening again.
Since you can’t just tip-toe around forever, you’ll need to learn how to work with the injuries you’ve sustained and trust your own footing again. Slowly, you should be able to get over this mental block and now feel uneasy every time you move around anymore.
If you’re worried about how you’ll heal and recover after you have a slip and fall, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you learn how to overcome this both physically and mentally.