How to get a heavy person off the floor?

If the person cannot get themself up, with furniture placement & some direction & light assistance - call emergency services.

Any headstrike needs a medical check. I would never want to move anyone with suspected head, neck, back injuries. Also dizzy, pain, bleeding.

EMS can advise a safety check & triage the urgency over the phone.

There are videos online showing how to get yourself up from the floor. (For a non-fall time - just for interest). Look for videos from Occupational Therapists. There are some titled 'McGuyver' that are very good too.

Eg Roll, get into crawl position, crawl to a sturdy chair, then 'knight's position' & push/pull up to chair.

I've used that with ONLY when I was VERY certain there was no headstrike or injuries.
I have also injured myself when direction & light assistance became maximum assistance.
Do not risk a back injury!!!

The faller will be safe on the floor while they wait for assistance.
You will also be safe from injury.

You need to call emergency services if you cannot get them up. I am suffering an injury still today from a year ago from trying with my mom, that I will probably need surgery for.

Take Burninout36's advice. Both of my sisters have become injured moving my mom and one had surgery for the injury. It takes more than one person to get my mom up off the floor.

Call your non-emergency LEO and ask them if you call 911 or them for a lift assist.

Please do not attempt this yourself or with another person unless you have been trained to do so safely. You could injure yourself or the person you are helping.

Give the person a pillow and blanket and U call 911. There is no other option. U will end up disabled from a back injury yourself!

unfortunately, they always start screaming “Get me up!”

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Call 911. My late husband who was only about 165 lbs. fell a lot in his final years, and I couldn't get him up and had to call 911 a lot. They are very nice to come out(free of charge if they don't have to transport them to hospital)and get them up and back into the bed or chair.

My daughter is an RN and knows how to pick someone up. But in helping my Dad toilet, he started to fall off the toilet away from her, she went to grab him and injured her back. She had pulled out her muscles so bad that her spinal column was being pulled out too. Lots of chiropractor visits. She did lift my Mom after a fall in the shower but Mom could help. My daughter spread her legs apart even with her shoulders. Had Mom wrap her arms around DDs neck. Then DD grabbed Mom under her arms and housted Mom up onto the shower bench. Mom weighted about 135, DD was about 40 then. 30 when she was helping.

As others have said, get help. However, if someone is constantly falling, they may ask for you to find another solution. For several weeks my mother was falling 8-10 times a week. Emergency services started to refuse to come out until we could find another solution for her. One time they had another emergency and weren't able to come out for over an hour.

My point is, you can get help a few times, but if it is a regular occurrence, find a different solution.

Call EMS, that’s what they are there for. You don’t want to risk having a life altering injury yourself.