{"id":96922,"date":"2026-02-02T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=96922"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:10:58","slug":"slow-and-steady-is-the-best-way-to-protect-yourself-against-slips-and-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_02_2026\/slow-and-steady-is-the-best-way-to-protect-yourself-against-slips-and-falls","title":{"rendered":"Slow and Steady Is the Best Way to Protect Yourself Against Slips and Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Sanford, a UToledo Health orthopaedic surgeon, discusses factors like osteoporosis and loss of balance and muscle tone that make falls particularly risky for the elderly.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: <\/b><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledoblade.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth-and-well-being%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2Fslow-and-steady-is-the-best-way-to-protect-yourself-against-slips-and-falls%2Fstories%2F20260124100&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7C7c2ef5c3c5b24b8f024808de62695452%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639056402787295070%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1Avppq%2BdrKFR5GeIrZsKkJEM5TV1VYQt7bfgBeiaHkc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"14a9f4f6-3b9a-46aa-95fd-1ae416c2c732\">Slow and Steady Is the Best Way to Protect Yourself Against Slips and Falls<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Sanford, a UToledo Health orthopaedic surgeon, discusses factors like osteoporosis and loss of balance and muscle tone that make falls particularly risky for the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96923,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96922\/revisions\/96923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}