Functional Drop Attacks: Detailed Recovery and Safety Pages

No warning is a real possibility. A useful plan must work even if you cannot predict the next fall. Injury prevention and access support remain worthwhile while treatment is explored.

In this collection

1. Agreeing What to Do After a Fall — When a sudden fall happens, a short plan helps you and others check safety, recognize injury and get the right help. [Clinical safety guidance; injury response is supportive care]
2. Making Everyday Places Safer — When attacks can arrive without warning, change the surroundings and the way an activity is done to reduce avoidable harm. [Clinical safety and occupational-therapy guidance; direct attack prevention unproven]
3. Choosing Support for Getting Around — When walking or standing leaves you vulnerable to sudden falls, choose assessed aids, seating, assistance and routes that support daily access. [Individualized clinical and access guidance; no aid guarantees prevention]
4. Looking for a Warning Only If There Is One — When a repeatable change genuinely comes before an attack, agree one safe response; if there is no warning, use planning that does not depend on it. [Specialist guidance and emerging model; preventive effect uncertain]
5. Getting Up Safely After an Uninjured Event — After a familiar event without injury, use a previously assessed way to rise or obtain help, without repeated standing tests. [Clinical falls-safety guidance; not an attack-stopping treatment]
6. Returning to Activities With the Right Support — When fear, symptoms or practical barriers have narrowed daily life, choose a meaningful activity and an adequately supported first step. [Individualized rehabilitation guidance; drop-attack-specific effectiveness uncertain]
7. Keeping Other Conditions in the Care Plan — When more than one symptom or event contributes to falls, identify the patterns and give each the assessment and treatment it needs. [Clinical assessment and coordinated care; treatment response does not establish cause]

Scope and evidence

A drop attack is an event description. An unexplained fall is not automatically FND. These pages support people whose events have been appropriately assessed; their diagnostic page explains the boundaries. A changed pattern or injury needs the appropriate response.

The evidence includes a retrospective drop-attack cohort, a small qualitative study proposing a cognitive-behavioural model, specialist education, broader FND rehabilitation guidance and general falls safety. The warning page and activity page explain why a model is not proof of treatment benefit. Each detailed page has its own source table. No drop-attack-specific controlled treatment trial was located in this targeted review; that is a search finding, not proof that no study can exist.

Original-list record

The seven numbered entries match exactly at the initial commit 89c276f, common baseline 74138f3 and immediate pre-expansion main 15ffb97. Each becomes one detailed page: no split, merger or omission. This README is an eighth document, not an eighth technique. See the history audit.