Safety Tips And Senior Balance Exercises For Walking

Senior Balance Exercises For Safe Walking

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

     Staying mobile and active is a critical goal for older adults and performing senior balance exercises  on a regular basis can help to meet that goal. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now One of the key components to enjoying later years of life is to stay active and involved in community and family activities. whether you or a loved one you know lives at home or in an assisted living facility and struggles with balance problems, there is help and hope that you can remain a vital part of the activities and events that go on around you. In order to prevent falls for older adults, especially during walking activities, it is essential to follow certain safety tips and senior balance exercises on a consistent basis.

Senior Balance Exercises Are Important For Safe Walking

      One of the best ways to enhance stability for safe walking is to practice specific senior balance exercises. By understanding how the balance system in the brain works, you will have better success of completing equilibrium routines  and achieving the steadiness you are hoping for. For instance, the balance system in the brain takes in information from the eyes, inner ear vestibular system and sense of touch from the feet to help with stability. Vision is the primary sense that the brain relies upon for steadiness during movement activities. Consequently, it is helpful to use visual cues while walking. As An example, when you get up from a chair and start to walk down a hallway or into the kitchen, pick a point on a wall or object in front of you to focus on. That visual input will give your brain a specific point to focus on, thereby enhancing your visual input and secondarily maximizing your balance abilities. A specific equilibrium routine to practice is as follows:

Gait with a Focal Point–

• Have a focal point approximately 20 feet in front of you at eye level.

• As you begin walking keep eyes focused on target in front of you.

• At periodic intervals,  briefly look down toward the floor (approx. 5 ft. in front of you) to check for obstacles and then return eyes to the target.

• Advance this walking exercises by attempting to walk along a line, touching one heel to the toes on the other foot in a tandem position.

You can learn these visual cues and specific stability tips as well as appropriate senior balance exercises by following along with the direction of an experienced Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    Stay active by learning the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The easy to follow Balance DVD is an excellent educational medium to use at home or in a group setting. The comprehensive DVD is stocked with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like grocery shopping, 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 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

  Stay safe and active for years to come by beginning balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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