Category: environment
Aging and Postural Control: How to Maintain Your Balance
What is Postural Control? Postural control is maintaining or restoring your balance during static and dynamic activity.1 Examples include maintaining good posture while standing or sitting or keeping your balance when walking. Depending on the perturbation (also known as a …
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Getting Back to Exercise? 5 Tips to Prevent Training Injuries
Summer is the perfect season to get back into exercise. The extra hours of sunlight and time spent outside may enliven you to start exercising or try a new form of exercise, or even increase the duration or intensity of …
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Movement is Medicine: Physical Therapy & Arthritis
Arthritis may seem relatively benign – everyone knows someone who has arthritis. But here are some numbers that help put the problem of arthritis into perspective: Arthritis is a serious condition that causes serious problems. The good news is that …
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5 Exercises for the Pool
After a long winter of exercising inside your home or at the gym, you may want to change scenery. Incorporating pool workouts is the perfect way to mix up your routine. Buoyancy is an upward force provided by water that …
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Fear of Falling Can Increase Your Risk of Falling
Did you know the fear of falling can increase your risk of falling? The fear of falling largely affects the older adult population, especially during activities with a balance component. The correlation between fear of falling and falling is a …
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Hitting the Road? 5 Tips to Maintain Your Health While on a Road Trip
The weather is heating up, trees are greener, flowers are blooming, and the sun is shining. After a long winter, it is time for a much-needed vacation. A road trip perhaps? Long hours sitting in the car and unlimited access …
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