Community Activities And Senior Balance Exercises

Be Safe In The Community With Senior Balance Exercises

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

     Staying active in the community is important for older adults and practicing senior balance exercises every day can help folks stay safe. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now For people who struggle with vestibular disorders, dizziness, and imbalance, being steady out at community events can be very challenging. A person with feelings of lightheadedness and disequilibrium can be is easily fatigued when sorting out vision and balance signals in expansive areas - even those that are quiet and calm. This effort becomes daunting in noisy and busy environments such as in large “box” stores, at crowded sporting events, in theaters, or even while walking down city sidewalks with other pedestrians. Such conditions make it difficult for a person to rely on visual clues about balance and movement because everything is moving, lighting isn't ideal, and stable anchors such as walls are far away. Struggles with sensory overload affects the quality of a person's social, work, and family relationships because it can seem paralyzing at times. Additionally, being out in the community with balance and dizziness problems can be exhausting. For example, you may need to choose between attending your child's soccer game and fixing dinner for the family after the game. Because standing on the sidelines watching  the team run back and forth is so overwhelming,  you find that you have to "rise to the occasion" during the game, but you collapse as soon as it is over. You don't want to disappoint your child by not appearing at his game, and at the same time, you need to reserve enough energy to feed him at the end of the day and catch up with the rest of the family. There are a few tips that can be useful to maintain balance and minimize symptoms of fatigue and dizziness when you are out at community events.

-Use a cane to provide you with additional proprioceptive (touch) information about where you exist in space.

- Pack a fold-up stool or canvas chair in the trunk of your car to use when needed at outdoor events.

-If you are at a sporting event, sit at one end of the field/coliseum rather than on the sidelines. This will help you avoid turning your head back and forth as the team travels up and down the field. Instead, you'll be keeping your head steady while watching the team run to or away from you.

- Wear sunglasses to calm light and movement.

Balance Exercises For Community Events

Practicing senior balance exercises and using specific stability techniques can help to enhance steadiness when you are enjoying community activities. The first steadiness principle to employ is to concentrate on the sense of touch between your feet and the ground under your feet. By using this sensory feedback, you will enhance the connection between the sensory information in your feet and ankles with the balance center in your brain. The heightened awareness will elevate your balance abilities and steadiness. You can use this principle whether you are on a hard surface, like walking in the mall or a store, or whether you are ambulating on grass while playing golf, at a soccer game or bocci ball game. You can learn pertinent steadiness techniques and senior balance exercises by following the direction of a knowledgeable Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To be safe during community activities, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Balance DVD is an exceptional instructional tool to use at home or in a group setting. The Exercise For Balance DVD is complete with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance general fitness and to perform every day activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like playing golf, 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

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