Thank you for joining us for today’s livestream where we talked about balance. As we age this is something that becomes increasingly important, in this video we discuss how you can improve your balance from home, how it relates to your back pain and why it is so important.

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Aging & Balance - The ability for your body to catch yourself when you fall off a pavement for example, diminishes as you age. This can often be the reason why someone in their older years might fall more regularly than someone of a younger age. It’s important we avoid this as much as possible because the consequences of falling over when you’re younger are not as severe as someone when they’re older, you’ve got more chance of fracturing or breaking a hip.

Exercise Choices - The choice of exercise as you age is generally changing to walking or gardening. Walking doesn’t quite do the same thing as other types of activity for your fast-twitch muscle fibres, the ones that will save you from falling. Resistance training is one of the best ways to build fast-twitch fibres and has a direct impact on your ability to balance. Slow-twitch fibres are not able to process information fast enough to save you, but are the ones maintained through walking.

Ankles - We have a lot of proprioception in our ankles. When you sprain your ankle you can lose some of those receptors, which is why it’s important to do the correct rehabilitation process to get that back.  Participants aged 72-98 choosing walking or swimming as low-impact activities, changing them onto a resistance training routine meant they were better able to do functional activities like climbing stairs, over a period of 10 weeks. So you can make big changes in a small amount of time.

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