Senior Balance Exercises Improve Walking Rhythm

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

By practicing senior balance exercises every day you can improve the essential components stability for all standing and walking activities.  Equilibrium exercises enable you to be more steady when performing activities of daily living that involve standing such as brushing your teeth, food preparation at the kitchen counter, or washing dishes in the kitchen sink.  Additionally, stability exercises can help you improve steadiness with transitional movements such as getting up from a chair, getting in and out of bed, or getting in and out of a car.  Furthermore, balance training can assist in maximizing stability during all walking activities. Please see    http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now

Senior Balance Exercises Enhance Walking Rhythm

Dynamic senior balance exercises that include focusing on walking activities can help enhance an older individual’s stability during walking activities.  Unfortunately, far too many aging adults fall into an arhythmic walking pattern.  This faulty movement pattern includes:

-decreased step length

- decreased amplitude of arm swing

-uneven cadence of striding

-poor arm-leg synergy

-uneven swing-to-stance ratio

This arhythmic gait pattern often times leads to decreased balance and increased risk and incidence of falling.  The best way to combat this off- balance walking pattern is to begin with static senior balance exercises and progress to dynamic routines.  By developing good static balance with all standing activities using specific stability techniques and well designed balance exercises, seniors are able to develop strong balance reactions at the ankles, which secondarily decrease the risk for falling.  Once good static balance is established, then the older adults can practice dynamic stability routines which include walking with better gait patterns and walking while concentrating on the sense of touch between the feet and the floor to enhance the sensory input to the balance center in the brain.  By using the sensory input from your feet while walking, you will be able to maximize your balance abilities and decrease the incidence of falling.  You also be able to improve your gait pattern to a more rhythmic walking pattern, which is more energy efficient as well as more stable.  You can practice these senior balance exercises and stability strategies that have been developed by an experienced physical therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To improve your balance with walking, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The  Balance DVD is designed for simple use at home or in a group setting. The DVD is filled 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  professionally filmed Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, balance techniques and balance routines from a balance trainer (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

Increase steadiness with walking by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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