re: #31 silverdolphin

Ooh. you bring up an interesting research project. Maybe the weakening of our muscle fibers as we get older diminish their ability to slow our falls. I wonder if anyone has measured whether old people ‘crumble like a wall’ because their muscles cannot slow their falls. Do old people fall from a stumble at 1 g while younger people use thier miscles to slow the apparent acceleration to maybe 0.5 g?

You can build muscle at any age. Takes longer for a smaller result, but almost everyone has room for improvement. My PT after I got hit was always focused on building the fall-prevention muscles. He’d ‘joke’ about working with old people, how you could just tap on them to push them over before he trained with them.