Injuries from falls traced to decline in ability to mentally estimate and anticipate stepping and reaching distances. Professor Carl Gabbard, director of the Texas A&M Motor Development Laboratory, focused on “estimation of reachability” — whether an object is within or out of reach. Gabbard explains that before actions are performed...
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Those Prone to Falls Fail to Adjust Walking Speed – Smilecast 96
Prone to Falls? Watch Your Environment Seniors prone to falling might do so because they fail to adjust their walking speed to their vision impairments. Irish investigators from Trinity College in Dublin divided 17 participants into three groups and made them complete a walking course, once while wearing goggles that...
Playing Catch Can Improve Balance and Prevent Falls (Video)
Playing Catch Can Improve Balance and Prevent Falls (Video)
Dance Therapy Reduces Hip and Knee Pain and Falling Risk (VIDEO)
Dance Therapy Reduces Hip and Knee Pain and Falling Risk (VIDEO)
Dance Therapy Reduces Hip and Knee Pain and Falling Risk
Dance Therapy Reduces Hip and Knee Pain and Falling Risk Dancing eases hip or knee pain and helps older adults move better, according to a small Saint Louis University study. “After dancing, over several months they reported less pain and were able to walk faster,” said Jean Krampe, Ph.D., assistant...
Make Your Home Safer to Prevent Falls (VIDEO)
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Make Your Home Safer to Prevent Falls
Would you allow your child to wander outside alone, in the dark, without supervision? The answer to this question is inevitably ÛÏno.Û However, for some if this question was replaced with ÛÏparentÛ the answer immediately changes to ÛÏyes.Û But as parents get older, they may need protection too, even from...
Hip Fractures in Women Deadly
Prevent falls. Prevent hip fractures.@Don Farral, Getty Images Hip fractures in women ages 65 to 79 are linked to in an increase in short-term mortality according to an ongoing Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research report. Investigators followed 1,116 women who had hip fractures and compared them with about 4,500...
Yoga Improves Balance and Reduces Falls
Regular yoga classes helped older male veterans who have had a stroke cope with their increased risk of suffering from a painful or deadly fall, according to a study by Indiana University funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Having a stroke quadruples a person’s chances of falling and...
Fall Prone Fail to Adjust Walking Speed
Seniors prone to falling might do so because they fail to adjust their walking speed to their vision impairments. Irish investigators from Trinity College in Dublin divided 17 participants into three groups and made them complete a walking course, once while wearing goggles that blurred their vision and once without...