Cognitive Enhancement And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises Performed With Cognitive Training

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

   For older adults, senior balance exercises are essential to perform on a daily basis to improve balance and prevent falls. Healthcare professionals and medical researchers have made it known that as people age they can have deficits in mental tasks including:

- Memory

- thinking

-decision making

-logic

   As a result, spouses, loved ones and healthcare professionals are interested in finding ways to enhance both balance skills to reduce the risk of falling for an older individual as well as maximizing mental capacities.  As a result of intense research,  medical researchers have therefore found that Balance training and balance exercises can be advanced with simultaneous mental training. In their study, Effect of mental training on the balance control ability of healthy subjects, Choi J.H., Choi Y.W., Nam K.S., Cho I.S., Hwang Y.T. and Kwon Y.H. looked at balance abilities with high level balance training. In their study, they correlated the effects of  combining balance exercises and mental training. This study investigated the effect of physical training with visual feedback and mental training with motor imagery on balance control ability. Please see  http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now

Senior Balance Exercises And Mental Stimulation

    By combining cognitive training with senior balance exercises, medical researchers have been able to prove an increase in both mental skills and balance abilities. Equilibrium exercises with mental training (specific visual imagery) were studied together to see their effects on overall balance ability for an older individual.  In the study mentioned above, the researchers concluded that their findings indicate that physical balance training and balance exercises with visual feedback as well as mental balance training with motor imagery is effective. To be specific, they summarized their findings to promote a combination of cognitive exercises and senior balance exercises together for a synergy of positive results. The researchers showed that mental training could contribute to improving dynamic balance ability in a cost-effective home-based training program. For senior citizens who want to practice senior balance exercises in the comfort of their own home, now there is an excellent tool developed by an experienced Physical Therapist: the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To make the most out of equilibrium routines and mental training together, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Balance DVD is an excellent instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to follow DVD is loaded with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, house cleaning,  stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like skiing, dancing and hiking. In the Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, stability techniques and balance routines from a 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

 Combine mental exercises and balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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