Muscle Weakness And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Muscle Weakness

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

   As we age, we all experience various changes in our body's structure, including weakening muscle which can lead to immobility and imbalance unless we intentionally practice senior balance exercises on a regular basis. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now  Gradual progression of muscle weakness can be very frustrating as it can lead to secondary issues such as:

-Difficulty getting out of a chair or couch

-Difficulty getting out of bed

-Difficulty going up and down stairs

-Being more winded with daily activities like doing laundry or vacuuming

-Being off balanced with walking activities

  Furthermore, muscle weakness can contribute to medical conditions like osteoarthritis and kyphotic posture.  Among medical professionals, it is commonly accepted that, due to age or previous trauma, muscles are less intensively used. Such weak muscles do not only fatigue more rapidly, but they also display a slower voluntary and reflex motor control. Thus, once the protective muscular control is lost, excessive joint movement and instability with pathological shear and peak joint forces occur. As a consequence, stress-induced microtrauma to the articular cartilage leads to cartilage degeneration, pathological subchondral pressure increase, consequent subchondral bone sclerosis, and consequent joint collaps with axis mal-deviation leading to the typical pathobiomechanical osteoarthritis vicious circle. To be more specific, medical researchers have published studies that looked at the muscle strength of calf muscles and the amount of osteoarthritis in surrounding ankle joints.  The medical researchers found that patients with ankle osteoarthritis display a reduced calf circumference and had reduced mean electromyography frequencies of lower leg muscles on the affected side. A recent follow up study carried out included MRI analyses of lower leg muscle size. Here, it was determined that there were specific muscle groups which showed signs of osteoarthritis muscle atrophy. Since muscle atrophy and weakness can have such a large impact on osteoarthritis, balance and activities of daily living, medical professionals as well as medical researchers suggest that older individuals perform senior balance exercises as well as strengthening exercises to maximize their steadiness with all movement activities.

Senior Balance Exercises To Strengthen Muscles

     One of the very significant factors in performing senior your balance exercises is to complete the program on a consistent basis. By practicing the exercises every day, you will be able to develop strong connections between the balance center in your brain and the sensory input for stability coming from your body. The main three sensory inputs to help with balance include vision, the vestibular system in the inner ear  and the sensory input from the feet. To help develop the sensory feedback from the feet, you can concentrate on the sense of touch between your feet and the floor while you are performing the prescribed stability exercises. As an example, you can rehearse a single leg standing routine and focus on the sense of touch between your feet and the floor during that exercise. To help you learn how to correctly perform each senior balance exercise, you can follow the instruction 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 help improve steadiness and leg strength, 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 strong and start balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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