Building Bone, Strength and Confidence: Exercising Safely with Osteoporosis
“Strong bones, steady balance, confident movement — it all starts with the right kind of exercise.” Osteoporosis — often called the silent disease — affects millions of older adults, particularly postmenopausal women. It causes bones to become thinner, weaker, and more prone to fractures, especially in the spine, hips, and wrists. But here’s the empowering […]
ARE YOU GROUNDED?
The human body operates best when it moves. With sufficient practice, a movement can become a learned skill that through regular use becomes second nature. The converse is also true. When we avoid or stop moving in certain directions or dimensions the body slowly loses the ability to do those movements or skills and this […]
WHAT IS BALANCE?
The dictionary defines balance as: an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady put (something) in a steady position so that it does not fall an instrument for weighing an oscillating wheel operating with a hairspring to regulate the movement of a timepiece physical equilibrium Perhaps you have also heard people say things […]
ARE YOU AT RISK OF FALLING
Improved health care has lead to an unprecedented growth in the older population and soon there will be more adults over 65 than children under 5 years of age. However, the incidence of falls is also increasing and fall injuries are now among the 20 most expensive medical conditions. As seen in the image above, […]