Over Estimating And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Over Stepping

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

   Practicing senior balance exercises can help those older adults who misstep while walking. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Too often, people in the aging population fall when going up stairs up or down a curb or with walking on uneven ground. Many times, falling is due to a misstep or not being able to judge the distance or height of a step accurately. As we age, we often have a decline in both vision and proprioception. Visual declines leads to not being able to see distances accurately. Proprioception is part of our sensory system that tells us both where we are in space and how we are moving through space. Losses in vision and sensory feedback results in falling as we trip on a step or misjudge the distance from one step to another. As a result, doctors, nurses and physical therapists suggest to older individuals that they perform senior balance exercises to enhance their stability and sensory feedback.

Senior Balance Exercises To Prevent Tripping

   Rehearsing certain  senior balance exercises can assist in developing necessary balance reactions and needed sensory feedback for good steadiness. By standing with your feet shoulder width a part, you can focus on centering your body weight. With your body weight in the center of your base of support, determined by your feet, you can maximize the sensory input from your feet to the balance center in your brain. Increasing this sensory input will develop better balance reactions, resulting in greater stability and reduced likelihood of falling. You can perform these steadiness techniques and senior balance reactions by following along with the balance program presented in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To limit falling, please initiate a program of the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The healthcare professional recommended Exercise For Balance DVD is a first rate instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to understand and to follow Exercise For Balance DVD includes  a step by step series of up to date balance and strength exercises necessary to optimize senior fitness and to perform basic daily activities like shopping, doing laundry,  walking, standing, cleaning house, stair climbing or to advance to more difficult activities like skiing, dancing, playing golf and hiking. In the  comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve stability, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a  qualified balance specialist --- licensed Physical Therapist---who has worked with balance and dizziness disorders for over 25 years. Get your copy of the Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOW button

Stay steady by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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