Blurred Vision And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Blurry Vision

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

     Having blurred vision can create  problems with stability and mobility and performing senior balance exercises can be advantageous to limiting a potential fall. Please see      http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Blurred vision tends to increase in frequency  for individuals as they age. Changes in vision including decreased acuity, blurred vision, decreased discrimination and loss of peripheral vision can come on later in life. In particular, blurred vision is the most common visual symptom and dysfunction. Blurred vision usually refers to decreased visual acuity of gradual onset. Patients with small visual field defects (eg, caused by a small retinal detachment) may describe their symptoms as blurring. The most common causes of blurred vision include:

 

• Age-related macular degeneration

• Cataracts

• Diabetic retinopathy

  One of the side effects of blurry vision is a decrease in steadiness.  since the brain relies heavily on visual input of the environment for balance, blurred vision causes imbalance and a greater risk for falling. Consequently, older adults are advised to perform senior balance exercises routinely to compensate for visual impairments.

Senior Balance Exercises For Blurry Vision

       By rehearsing senior balance exercises every day, folks with visual problems like blurry vision can maximize their somatosensory input to compensate for loss in vision. The balance center in the brain uses sensory information including vision, inner ear vestibular input and sensory feedback from the feet in a standing position. Older people with visual deficits can compensate by increasing their sensory feedback from their feet. One equilibrium routine to help with enhancing sensory feedback involves standing on a hard, flat surface like hardwood or tile floors and focusing on the sense of touch between ones feet and the floor. You can maximize this sensory input by centering your body weight into one focal point in the center of your feet and concentrating your focus on that point. This stability technique can be used during a series of senior balance exercises to develop adequate balance skills. These senior balance exercises can be practiced on a daily basis by following along with an experienced Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    For those with visual deficits, please begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The easy to follow Exercise For Balance DVD is the ultimate educational DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD comes complete with the best balance and strength exercises needed to develop senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, grocery shopping, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like playing golf, dancing and hiking. In the up to date Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a balance instructor--- 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

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