After falling, your elderly parent may have sustained broken bones or other serious injuries. These injuries may make it hard for him or her to complete normal daily activities, like getting dressed, eating, driving, etc. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
Can one fall lead to permanent memory damage?
Arizona residents like you who suffer from a severe fall understand that the resulting brain injury can impact your life. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in particular often create issues that take months or years to recover from. But can it result in memory loss or...
The dangers of bone fractures in older adults
A slip and fall accident can upend an elderly person's life, especially if it causes debilitating injuries. Age greatly complicates a slip and fall injury and makes proactive and quality medical help even more critical. Older folks who sustain an injury after a slip...
That scented cleaning solution could be your downfall
Falls on hard surfaces can cause major injuries, especially for seniors since bones become more brittle and more easily broken over time. The fragrant floor-cleaning solutions sometimes used in hotels, retail stores and other public buildings may cause slip and fall...
How can a back injury impact your life?
Arizona residents like you who suffer from a slip and fall may also struggle with injuries in the aftermath. Some of them resolve within weeks or months. Others may take years of recovery. In some cases, you could find yourself facing a lifetime of disability, pain...
How can seniors prevent falls?
Some people believe that falling more often is simply a side effect of aging, but this does not have to be the case. Falls at any age can be extremely dangerous, but if you are over the age of 65 a simple trip could change your entire life or potentially kill you....
Cognitive deficits due to the brain injuries
This blog contains a number of different posts detailing the many dangers inherent with ground-level falls, including the tendency of such incidents resulting in brain injuries. It is easy to assume such injuries to be those resulting from catastrophic accidents that...
Why is a broken hip so dangerous for older adults?
Hip fractures affect more than 600,000 adults in the 65-and-older age group every year according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency also reports that falls cause at least 95% of hip fractures in this age group. Learn why a broken hip could...
When children are hurt in slip-and-fall accidents
Children face a number of risks on a daily basis, but some are injured in serious accidents that occur as a result of another's negligence. For example, some children are injured after falling down on a slick surface because a property owner or business failed to take...
What is the most common cause of injury in an office?
Millions of Americans work in office environments. While most people do not think office environments are extremely hazardous, the reality is different when you look at the rate of falls. In fact, according to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, persons who work...