Normal Gait With Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises Help With Walking

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

    Safety with walking is a critical component of keeping older individuals active and enjoying a high quality of life and performing senior balance exercises  is one of the best ways to maximize steadiness with both walking and standing movements. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Gait is the act and manner of walking for all individuals of every age. Normal human walking is a learned motor skill that can be performed automatically and without conscious effort. Regular gait is also a complex phenomenon that requires action, interaction, and integration of many different parts of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Fossil evidence discovered by researchers indicates that humans have used the bipedal form of locomotion for more than 1 million years (Napier 1967). Bipedal gait, along with language and speech, are the abilities that differentiate humans from their ancestors. Normal gait is critical to an individual's quality of life. Therefore, disorders of gait are a source of considerable handicap and distress. Although particularly common among the elderly, gait disorders can affect people of any age. However, because of reduced reserves to support balance and gait, the elderly are more prone to gait disturbances and falls.

Senior Balance Exercises For Steadiness With Walking

   Since normal gait is a complex motor movement, it is essential to rehearse specific senior balance exercises to help maximize balance abilities, especially during walking. Additionally, since walking often involves navigating different surfaces like carpet, hardwood floors, sand, grass, hiking trails and much more, it is critical to perform equilibrium routines on a daily basis to make the most of balance skills and apply them to every day activities like walking in the home, going up and down stairs or going for a jaunt in the beautiful outdoors. One example of dynamic stability exercises that helps with walking is tandem walking. With tandem walking, the individual walks touching their heel to toe along a line. The steadiness exercise involves having a narrow base of support, which challenges the balance reactions at the feet and ankles. If you can walk safely at home in a tandem manner without losing your balance, you will be ready to hit the great outdoors and tackle different surfaces like grass or sand. You can learn these senior balance exercises and others by following along with the expert instruction of a knowledgeable Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To stay safe with walking, please begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Exercise For Balance DVD is an excellent educational medium to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to follow Exercise For Balance DVD comes filled with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, cleaning house, 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 inside and outside the home by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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