Episode 1786 - Everyone dies; not everyone lives

Dr. Jeff Musgrave // #GeriOnICE // www.ptonice.com 

In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, join Modern Management of the Older Adult lead faculty Jeff Musgrave shares shares how by being too quick to limit risk for our patients we can expedite deconditioning, worsen social isolation and mortality of our patients.

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION

JEFF MUSGRAVEWelcome to the PT on ICE Daily Show brought to you by the Institute of Clinical Excellence. My name is Dr. Jeff Musgrave, doctor of physical therapy. Super excited to be talking to you about everyone dies, not everyone lives. So I am fresh off an epic motorcycle adventure with the CEO Jeff Moore and Matt in the bike fit division of our company. And it was an epic trip. And a great way to summarize this trip is a quote from a motorcycle brand that I've started following recently. We don't promote this brand in any way, I just thought the quote was great, which is, everyone dies, not everyone lives. So just to kind of set the stage a little bit, I'm new to motorcycling, brand new thing, it's something just recently I decided was Important to me a risk that I wanted to take Lots of people in my life very well-meaning that care about me deeply Wanted to just share all the worst case scenarios. They wanted to instill enough fear in me To maybe prevent me from going or to make sure that I'm super safe and and I get that right there is some inherent risk Taking a motorcycle up a cliff face lots of things can happen Some injuries occurred, there were some wrecks, but most importantly, there was the opportunity to really live life. in a very deep, meaningful way to accept some risk, to have a lot of fun, to have some fun stories, to make some fun memories that are gonna last me, I hope, the rest of my life. And I think this is very relevant whether we're talking about older adults or even younger adults. But I think we come in contact with this type of problem with older adults most common. So commonly with older adults, In that same vein, we're trying to help our patients be safe. We want them to make decisions that are going to prevent injuries, prevent falls, and for a lot of our older adults, a fall can be a very serious thing. I'm not making light of that in any way. We know that lots of our older adults are living with low reserve. and low physical resiliency and reserve, so they have very little margin. So if they fall and they have decades of deconditioning, their bones are weak, their body systems are not prepared to help them recover quickly, and this can have a huge impact on their life. So I want to say I recognize that, and we preach this fitness forward approach to try to help build that reserve and build that resiliency, but still what I tend to see when I interact with clinicians, working with older adults, is we treat