Make Overhead Activities Safe With Senior Balance Exercises

Try Senior Balance Exercises For Safe Overhead Movements

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

     Staying safe in the home is a vital goal for all older adults and performing senior balance exercises as part of a daily routine can help achieve that goal. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Every day we undertake activities that involve looking up or reaching overhead. Those movements can include:

-Washing or fixing ones hair

-Reaching into a cupboard to get a glass or plate

-Cleaning the top of a lamp or drawer

-Getting ice cubes out of the freezer

-Getting a hat or scarf off the top shelf in a closet

-Watering a hanging flower basket

      Balance training and rehearsing senior  balance exercises are important to keep from losing stability and falling when looking up or when working overhead.  For all of us, when we look up or reach up over ones' head, that movement shifts the balance point of our body weight posteriorly to the heels. Normally, steadiness training instructs us to center our balance point in the middle of our feet while standing. When the balance point shifts to the heels, it is very easy to lose equilibrium and fall backwards, sustaining a life changing injury such as a blow to the head or fractured hip.

Start Senior Balance Exercises For Safety At Home

    To minimize any possibility of falling at home, it is essential to rehearse senior balance exercises every day.   Additionally,  Balance training should be performed on a daily basis to safely navigate overhead activities. One example of a basic equilibrium routine is to stand with feet shoulder width a part and slowly rock forwards and backwards with the purpose of controlling the shifting of ones body weight. Furthermore, to make overhead activities more safe, you can stand with one foot in front of the other. That split stance will increase your base of support below your feet, enhancing your natural stability. Consequently, when you reach over head in a split stance you can easily and safely rock forwards and backwards from one foot to the other in a controlled and steady manner.  By practicing specific balance techniques and balance exercises every day, an individual will be able to handle challenging activities of daily living like reaching into a cabinet, washing hair, or hanging up a coat without losing balance. For more instruction by an experienced Physical Therapist, you can follow along with the senior balance exercises in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    Be safe at home by beginning the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Balance DVD is an easy to follow educational medium to use at home or in a group setting. The comprehensive Balance DVD is filled with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance general  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, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a balance instructor --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

 Be safe at home by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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