Answer transcribed from the <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.brightwayhealth.org/podcast-episodes/12%3A-recreational-therapy-for-physical-symptoms-with-recreation-specialist-holly-auth" target="_blank">Brightway Answers interview with recreation therapist Holly Auth</a>: Before anything else, I just want to say congratulations.&nbsp; Using a wheelchair and then using a walker is a major accomplishment, so congratulations. I think it's awesome that you're trying to start walking unassisted. It sounds like you might need to strengthen your core as well as your back muscles.&nbsp; It's difficult to know exactly where the problem is without being able to see you and how you’re walking.&nbsp; Definitely talk to your physical therapist - they have the knowledge base of exactly what is going on and ways to assist with the problem. As a recreation therapist, I would take the information from your physical therapist and I would use that during my recreation activities. For example, (this is a little bit of a different scenario) but for someone who is working on standing and strengthening their legs and their posture, I would typically set them up somewhere with a counter height table. Maybe it's at the kitchen counter, maybe it's one of those floating desks that can lift up.&nbsp; So while you’re standing, I would set them up with something like a word search, coloring, cards - their preferred activity so they're engaging in something they like to do while they're working on standing and strengthening. People will often stand a lot longer than they realize and break their previous records because their mind is distracted with something they enjoy. So as a recreation therapist I would take into consideration what your physical therapist is saying, and then I would do some fun activities while your physical therapist’s recommended exercises.

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I'm accustomed to leaning back after being in a wheelchair for 10 years. I've been walking with a walker for 6 years. I'm trying to walk unassisted again, but I can't get the sensation to fall forward. Does anyone have any advice for that?

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Falling forward