Superflex And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises With Superflex

By Suzanne Stoke, Physical Therapist @ Exercise For Balance via www.exerciseforbalance.com
Technology is creeping into the market for older adults to be more steady at home and can be used in conjunction with practicing senior balance exercises to help maximize stability and reduce the risk of falling. Please see more information at  http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now A new product is soon coming on the market called Superflex. Superflex is a technologically advanced product to help senior citizens with safe mobility. Superflex, a Menlo Park, California-based startup that’s just coming out of stealth mode, says it’s working on sensor-equipped, computer-controlled clothing for senior citizens who have trouble with mobility. The suit’s sensors are supposed to be able to track the posture and movement of the body, and rapidly process data to send a motor “assist” when the wearer is leaning forward in a chair, getting ready to stand up, or even starting to raise their arms above their head.  Superflex also said that it raised nearly $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Japanese venture capital firm Global Brain. While Superflex's first goal is to address the US market, where the 65-and-older population is expected to nearly double from 48 million to 88 million in the next three decades, Superflex also sees a big opportunity in Japan, where people over 65 make up a quarter of the country’s population. To be honest, you will have to wait a bit before Superflex's product is ready to be put on and used at home. Superflex’s robot suits won’t ship until at least 2018, and so far there isn't a working prototype to evaluate. The developers of stressed that Superflex is still in its earliest conceptual stages, and admitted that some important elements of the design — like where rechargeable batteries will go in the electric suit, and how long they’ll last for — are still to be determined. In the meantime, older individuals can start practicing senior balance exercises in the comfort of their own home to develop necessary awareness of balance skills to minimize the potential of falling.

Senior Balance Exercises For Fall Reduction

   While you are waiting for your Superflex outfit to be developed, you can start rehearsing senior balance exercises to build needed steadiness for all movement activities. One of the features of the Superflex product is that it monitors where your body weight is to prevent you from tipping forwards and falling. You can learn how to determine the position of your body weight right now by practicing a specific equilibrium routine. The stability routines involves standing with your feet shoulder width a part and centering your weight in the middle of your feet. In this position, you can practice shifting your body weight slowly and in a controlled manner forwards and backwards and then side to side. This steadiness exercise will help you connect the sensory input from your feet to your brain that will help you be more steady overall. This exercise mimics the same principle that is provided by the Superflex product. YOu can get a jump start on improving your stability and reducing the possibility of a fall now while you wait for technology to catch up with the amazing balance system incorporated in your body. You can learn how to accurately perform these balance techniques and senior balance exercises by following along with the demonstration of a knowledgeable Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

Learn balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD

    To stay steady at home, 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

Don't wait! Start balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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