Category: Physical health

A couple of stories from this week’s Strong and Steady Falls Prevention and Management classes: • I got a message from one of the participants saying that she’d had her knee replacement operation on Monday and that the exercises she’d done at the classes before the operation had really helped as she was able to…

We exercised • This week saw us ‘marching into March’. We went up Snowdon for our big marches on St David’s Day and through woodlands, around tarns and up Lake District fells on the other days, looking out for Peter Rabbit and reciting Wordsworth’s poem ‘Daffodills’. As well as strengthening our heart, lungs and legs,…

Well today saw: • me demonstrating how to put the cover on a duvet • one lady who struggled to stand up from her chair on week 1 standing up, getting down to the floor on one knee and up again on her own 5 times on today, week 20, saying she was really proud…