Stair-Climbing Speed And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises Help Improve Stair-Climbing

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

  )    To stay safe at home, older individuals can perform senior balance exercises to keep them from falling. Please see  http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Unfortunately, tripping and falling on stairs is a very common problem. In fact, falls on stairs are a common cause of injury and death among older adults. Medical researchers have been looking at factors that involve aging individuals and the factors related to falling on stairs. Although stair climbing is a component of some healthcare instruments that assess activities of daily living, normal speeds for safe stairway ambulation have not been established. Furthermore, little is known about which components of functional mobility are most highly associated with stair-climbing speed. Consequently, Hinman, Martha R. and cohorts investigated these factors in their  study, Functional Predictors of Stair-Climbing Speed in Older Adults. The purposes of their study was to determine the range of normal stair-climbing speeds for ambulatory, community-dwelling older adults and identify which functional mobility tests could best explain this speed. The researchers found that the participants ascended and descended stairs at an average speed of 1.3 steps per second; men tended to ambulate stairs more quickly than women. The investigators discovered that their results were similar to others who reported stair-climbing speeds ranging from 1.1 to 1.7 steps per second for older adults. They concluded that this information will help health care professionals and directors of residential facilities make appropriate decisions related to living accommodations for their older adult clients.

Senior Balance Exercises Help With Safety On Stairs

    Since falling up or down stairs is a common problem among elderly people, rehearsing senior balance exercises is essential for them to perform on a regular basis. Climbing stairs involves several complex components including:

-speed

-Lower leg strength

-Ankle flexibility

-accurate depth perception

- visual acuity

-correct sense of placement of the foot (adequate proprioception)

- Balance

   Senior citizens can advance their balance abilities by practicing a daily routine of equilibrium exercises and leg strengthening exercises. Older adults can learn specific stability techniques, strengthening exercises for lower leg muscles and senior balance exercises by following the instruction of an experienced physical therapist in the exercise for balance dvd.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To stay safe on the stairs and around the house, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The easy to follow Balance DVD is the perfect instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The professionally filmed DVD is chock full 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 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

Be safe at home by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
For more information see http://www.mayoclinic.com/health-information/