Senior Balance Exercises Following Joint Replacements

By Suzanne Stoke, Physical Therapist @ Exercise For Balance via www.exerciseforbalance.com/

Practicing senior balance exercises is vitally important for individuals over the age of 60 years old to help them improve balance and reduce the risk of falling. Additionally, stability exercises are essential to perform following a joint replacement surgery. Information available from the from the National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,  report back there are 231,000  total hip replacements (THRs), 542,000 total knee replacements performed each year. We have seen that surgery it is no longer reserved for patients older than 65 years of age. Currently, the success of joint arthroplasty over the last 10-20 years has created more general acceptance and thus expanded opportunities for younger patients suffering from joint failure. Perioperative mortality approximates a low 0.5 percent, and patients who undergo joint replacement demonstrate a relatively rapid and substantial improvement in their conditions of pain, functional status and overall health-related quality of life. Arthroplasty, regardless of its location, has potential complications following joint replacement. These include surgical wound-healing problems; infection; deep-vein thrombosis and subsequent risk for pulmonary embolism; pneumonia; myocardial infarction; joint instability; stiffness; malalignment; and nerve and vascular injuries. Other complications include excessive post operative edema, inability to effectively manage pain and difficulty with bowel management regimens due to narcotics used perioperatively. Additionally, difficulties with walking abilities and balance problems are seen the following installing a new joint. Consequently, performing balance exercises in the rehabilitation period following surgery as well as continuing with stability exercises and walking programs at home after the rehabilitation sessions is essential. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now

 Senior Balance Exercises Help Improve Stability After Joint Replacements

Performing senior balance exercises after a joint replacement is critical. With a new hip or a new knee in place, the body must readjust its proprioceptive sensory input for the balance system. Our balance abilities relying heavily on this sensory input from joints, muscles, and ligaments to tell the brain where we are in space and how we are moving. Surgical procedures which result in a new joint as well as subsequent swelling and stiffness can disrupt the proprioceptive input to the balance system. Consequently, it is imperative to practice equilibrium exercises after a joint replacement surgery to both improve balance and reduce the risk of falling. The balance exercise routine should include specific stability techniques that concentrated on the sense of touch between the feet the floor. Using that sensory feedback will help the brain to enhance steadiness. Equilibrium exercises can be progressed from static standing routines to advance to dynamic walking programs. To continue senior balance exercises after being discharged from a physical therapy clinical setting, you can use the Exercise For Balance DVD at home to continue building balance abilities, and minimizing your risk for falling and injuring yourself.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    After a joint replacement, learn the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The Balance DVD is simple to use at home or in a group setting. The DVD is complete with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like dancing and hiking. In the Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, balance techniques and balance routines from a --licensed Physical Therapist-- who has worked with balance and dizziness disorders for over 20 years. Get your copy of the Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOW button

Following a joint replacement, be sure to start balance exercises  with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.