Muscle Pain And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Sore Muscles

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

   Many older adults experience muscle pain and joint stiffness on a regular basis, which can be alleviated by certain stretching routines, strengthening exercises and senior balance exercises. Please see more information at    http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now More and more we see an increasing number of aging individuals struggle with chronic muscular pain. If you take a look around, you can see that medications in the grocery store take up entire walls for painkillers designed to decrease muscle pain. Many "older weekend warriors" wind up in the doctors office suffering from muscle strains or chronic overuse injuries. Many older adults complain that their age is catching up with them as they experience muscle pain on a daily basis. Many times, this muscle pain becomes chronic in nature. According to a 2008 article in the Journal of American Medical Association, the cost of treating just back pain has risen to $85.9 billion. Back pain of the muscular nature is prevalent among many older adults. One of the things that helps to decrease back pain is to remain active with general strengthening and stretching exercises. In physical therapy, we have a slogan that "motion is lotion." This refers to the aspect of continually being active even in later years to help diminish joint stiffness and muscle pain. One of the best ways to stay safe with movement activities in later years is to practice senior balance exercises on a daily basis to make sure that you are stable during all your physical activity.

Senior Balance Exercises For Muscle Pain

     To prevent muscle pain, joint stiffness, falls and fractures due to falling, health professionals recommend that those in the aging population practice senior balance exercises as part of a daily physical fitness program. One equilibrium routine you can rehearse at a basic level is single leg standing, where you stand on one foot for about twenty seconds, three times on each leg. As you become proficient with single leg standing routines, you can advance to standing on one foot and moving the other foot forwards and backwards about twenty times and side to side about twenty times. This steadiness routine is a combination of static and dynamic balance skills that is needed in every day basic activities like walking or going up stairs. Once you develop adequate steadiness with your exercise routine, you can add in stretching exercises that will help alleviate muscle soreness. You can learn how to preform these steadiness routines and other senior balance exercises  by joining the instruction of a qualified physical therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    Those folks who suffer with chronic muscle pain are encouraged to first 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

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