3 Well Known Senior Balance Exercises

Familiar Senior Balance Exercises

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

  Knowing which senior balance exercises  to practice and how to perform them is the first step towards improving stability and reducing falls in older adults. Please see more information at http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now  Many of us are familiar with the concept that as we age we lose muscle mass and strength in our leg muscles, we become stiffer at the ankles and less able to adapt to various ground surfaces and we experience a decline in our balance systems, leading to a greater incidence of falling. In fact, medical researchers suggest that one in three adults in the aging population (over sixty years old) will fall each year. Often those falls result in debilitating injuries like wrist and hip fractures or head injuries. With that in mind, healthcare providers like doctors, physician assistants and physical therapists recommend that aging individuals perform at least three basic senior balance exercises.

Which Senior Balance Exercises To Do

   There are three basic senior balance exercises that older adults can do on a regular basis to increase stability and reduce the risk of falling. Those equilibrium routines include:

1) Single Leg Standing- In single leg standing, the senior citizen stands on one leg ( near a counter or table) for about twenty seconds, repeating that routine on each leg three times.

2) Tandem standing- In tandem standing, the older person stands with their feet in a line, in a heel to toe position. Hold that tandem stance position for twenty seconds and do three repetitions in each direction.

3) Tandem walking- With tandem walking, the aging individual walks along a line, in a heel to toe fashion for about ten feet and five repetitions.

   You can learn how to perform these and other senior balance exercises to do in the comfort of your own home by following along with the instructions from a qualified Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To Maximize your overall steadiness with all movements, get started on a course of the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The healthcare provider recommended Exercise For Balance DVD is a high quality instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to understand and simple to follow Exercise For Balance DVD includes  a step by step series of the latest balance and strength exercises necessary to optimize senior fitness and to carry out basic daily activities like shopping, doing laundry,  walking, standing, cleaning house, stair climbing or to advance to more difficult pursuits like skiing, dancing, playing golf and hiking. In the  comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve stability, how to apply steadiness techniques and how to safely execute 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

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