Commonality Of Falls And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises To Reduce Falling

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

 Healthcare professionals' goal to decrease the rate of falling for older individuals includes recommending daily routines of senior balance exercises. Please see     http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Medical providers such as doctors, nurses and physical therapists recognize that performing stability exercises can improve steadiness and limit the possibility of  a fall for an aging person. Falling is bad news for senior citizens. Falls are the most frequent cause of injury in older adults in the U.S. and they lead to substantial disability and mortality. The really bad news is that despite increased cautions to seniors about these dangers the number of people 65 and older that are falling is increasing, especially as the number of Baby Boomers age swells. The prevalence among the elderly that say they have experienced a fall within the last two years has increased since 1998, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Internal Medicine. “We expected an increase because older adults are getting older and there are more 80 and 90 year old adults than before, but we were very surprised to find that the increase in falls was not due to the changing demography,” says lead author Christine Cigolle, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor in the departments of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and a research scientist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC). “We saw a higher number of falls across all age groups - not just the oldest –and that was unexpected.” Study results show that among all adults 65 years or older, the two-year prevalence of self-reported falls increased from 28.2 percent in 1998 to 36.3 percent in 2010. “Contrary to our hypothesis, we observed an increase in fall prevalence among older adults that exceeds what would be expected owing to the increasing age of the population." Medical researchers and healthcare providers agre that one of the most effective ways to reduce the incidence of falling for older folks is to practice senior balance exercises on a regular basis.

Senior Balance Exercises To Avoid Falling

   To avoid being one of the older adults who fall and hurt themselves, try practicing senior balance exercises every day. One of the basic equilibrium routines that you can perform to enhance steadiness involves standing on one foot at a time and swinging the other foot forwards and backwards slowly. This stability routine combines static balance  (standing on one foot) with dynamic balance  (swinging the other foot forwards and backwards). You can learn other senior balance exercises to rehearse by following the direction of a qualified physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To prevent falling, please initiate a program of the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The healthcare professional recommended Exercise For Balance DVD is an excellent educational DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to understand and to follow Exercise For Balance DVD includes  a step by step series of up to date balance and strength exercises necessary to optimize senior fitness and to perform basic daily activities like shopping, doing laundry,  walking, standing, cleaning house, stair climbing or to advance to more difficult activities like skiing, dancing, bocce ball and hiking. In the  comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve stability, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a  qualified balance specialist --- 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

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