Bad Knees, Anyone?

[frigilux]

OUCH!! Just reading about that knee accident made me cringe. There's a reason the Mafia used to hit people in the kneecaps with baseball bats. It's indescribably painful.

I've found my sense of balance gets worse the older I get. I have to be more careful on stairs, or when carrying things.

In short, all the things I used to laugh at about "old people" are happening to me. And some young whippersnapper is probably laughing about it, LOL.

 

[mixfinder]

Balance

Jon, you're a better man than I am if you can wait a day with that kind of trauma. I hope you mend quickly. I always pressure myself to be on time, have everything done, exercise good recall and make it look like a breeze. Add medical treatment of any kind, which exacerbates stress and pain and it only gets worse. I can no longer do it all.
Darrell. People become more unsteady as they age. medication and improper nutrition play a big part. As our hearing degrades, we lose the ability to hear our own foot fall and become more tenuous in our gait.
The layer of tissue between the sole of the foot and the bones above grows thinner as we age. It is painful and we also lose the harmonic sounds it transfers. Studies have been done by the AJM using specially designed liquid filled insoles. The tests show promise.