Balance Exercises For Single Leg Stance

Single Leg Stance Balance Exercises

Being able to balance on one leg is essential for many of our daily activities including walking, stair climbing and reaching. Doing balance exercises on a daily basis can improve balance and reduce the risk of falling. Single leg balance exercises is one of the foundational balance exercises to perform.

Criteria For Single Leg Balance Exercises

Stand on one leg, place your arms across your chest with your hands touching your shoulders and do not let your legs touch each other. Look straight ahead with your eyes open and focus on an object about 3 feet in front of you. Ideally do this with the shoes off.

Criteria to stop timing the test:

The legs touched each other, the feet moved on the floor, their foot touches down, or the arms moved from their start position.

Criteria For Single Leg Balance Exercises With Eyes Closed

Stand on one leg, place your arms across your chest with your hands touching your shoulders and do not let your legs touch each other. Close your eyes once you have gotten in position. Ideally do this with the shoes off and be about 3 feet from any wall.

Results For Single Leg Balance Exercises

Timed single leg stance (SLS) has been correlated with amplitude and speed of sway in people without disease (Billek, 1990). The ability to maintain SLS generally decreases with increasing age. Single leg stance has been shown to improve over the course of 6 months of rehabilitation by working on balance exercises. Price and MacLeod found that older adults in the community could maintain SLS for 10 sec about 89% of the time and nursing home residents for 45% of the time.

Criteria For Single Leg Balance Exercises
Timed single leg stance (SLS) has been correlated with amplitude and speed of sway in people without disease (Billek, 1990). The ability to maintain SLS generally decreases with increasing age. Single leg stance has been shown to improve over the course of 6 months of rehabilitation by working on balance exercises. Price and MacLeod found that older adults in the community could maintain SLS for 10 sec about 89% of the time and nursing home residents for 45% of the time.

Instruction For Single Leg Stance Balance Exercises

In the Exercise For Balance DVD you will learn balance exercises including single leg stance exercises to help improve balance and decrease falls. You can order your Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOWbutton on the top right of the page or go to http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now

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