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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 4240512" data-attributes="member: 24452"><p>No, she doesn’t use a cane or walker but really needs to.  I may or may not have posted this, but she had surgery in December to remove a bone spur on her spine that was causing her to kind of drag a foot.  The surgery was successful, and physical therapy helped a lot.  However, since the therapy ended, she just sits around the house playing on her iPad or phone, and she gets absolutely no exercise.  Her neighbor/friend is a nurse and thinks the falls are caused by lack/loss of muscle tone due to lack of activity.  She seems to be agreeable to starting physical therapy again, but she’s gotten horrible at procrastinating and probably won’t follow through unless her friend or my brother and I press the issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>