Interventions Of Senior Balance Exercises To Reduce Falls

Senior Balance Exercises Help Decrease Falls

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

    Medical researchers have been investigating if balance exercises help with fall prevention among older adults. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now The statistics for falling among our aging population is staggering. Healthcare professionals estimate that one in three senior citizens, or about twenty million people, fall every year. With that in mind, medical researchers have been intensifying their investigations on ways to limit potential falls for aginig individuals. In their study, The Effectiveness of a Community-Based Program for Reducing the Incidence of Falls    in the Elderly, Lindy Clemson,  Robert G. Cumming,  Hal Kendig,  Megan Swann,  Robert Heard,  Kirsty Taylor studied three hundred ten community residents aged 70 and older who had a fall in the previous 12 months or were concerned about falling. The participants undertook a program aimed at improving lower-limb balance and strength, improving home and community environmental and behavioral safety, encouraging regular visual screening, making adaptations to low vision, and encouraging medication review. The researchers found that the intervention group experienced a 31% reduction in falls. In summary, a program of balance exercises and leg strengthening exercises helped improve stability and reduce the fall rate for older adults.

Try Senior Balance Exercises For Improved Stability

    Medical researchers have shown that regular routines of strengthening and balance exercises enhance overall steadiness and diminishes the potential of falling.  Since Falls among the elderly represent a major economic and social problem. Falls themselves and the belief that one might fall in fall-risk situations can result in restriction of mobility and activity, feelings of helplessness, loss of confidence, depression, and institutionalization. There is now good evidence that multifactorial interventions conducted by health professionals with skills in geriatric medicine can prevent falls. Multifaceted interventions have generally been consistent in showing an effect, particularly if they are targeting persons at risk and include several intervention approaches, including senior balance exercises such as single leg standing and tandem walking and lower leg strengthening exercises like calf raises and squats. You can learn these specific senior balance exercises and appropriate leg strengthening routines by following the direction of an experienced Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To assist in fall prevention, please begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Balance DVD is an excellent instructional tool to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to follow DVD comes complete 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, steadiness 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

   Fall prevention is a critical matter. Start balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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