Is Your Balance Configure You for An Injury?

Your balance configure you for an injury – It is what gives us the walkability on our two legs and stays with us our entire life balance. Our balance and vestibular system promote as we grow a baby throughout adulthood, and then begin to decline. Most people do not know their balance is not optimal until they suffer from a sports injury, fall, and trip, or lose their balance in the shower. Whatever your age, the balance influences your capability to be active.

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Can you do this?

• Stand next to a table or washtub barefoot with your hand gently grasping the table surface.
• Put one foot directly opposite each other, so that a heel is in contact with the opposed toes.
• Gently lift your hand, but keep it at the counter if you need to capture it quickly. Try to hold it for ten seconds (do this only if you feel safe or have someone nearby to help you).
• Now try with your eyes closed.
• Have you wobble much or even lose your balance? Your balance needs work!

There are many reasons for our decline in balance

• Changes in the view.
• Changes in our vestibular system.
• Changes in muscle mass, strength, and flexibility.
• Diminishing reflexes.
• Previous ankle injuries, hip, knee, or joints spine.

How the balance affects athletic performance

The more aggressive you are into the sports, the better your balance and reflexes need to be. Many back, hip, ankle, knee injuries in running, tennis and other sports are attributed to the inefficient equilibrium. By integrating simple balance exercises into your workout routine, you can set yourself up for success and injury prevention, and improve your sports performance.

How the balance affects back pain

How you walk directly impacts your back and can be a primary contributor to back pain. By improving balance, strength, and coordination of your hips, pelvis, and legs, your spine will be supported and guided, reducing fatigue. This, in turn, allows your return function normally without aggravation and inflammation. The balance activities are an important component of spine program to relieve back pain.

Prevention of falls

Based on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data, more than 2.5 million adults were treated for non-fatal injuries in emergency departments in 2013 . In the elderly, falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries. Most people do not think to keep their balance in form, until it is too late and they fall, break an arm, a leg or injuring their back. The good news is that most falls can be easily avoided by just exercising your regular balance system.

So, what you can do?

You can improve your balance, and it involves simple balance exercises execution. Try this simple exercise to strengthen your balance :

• Stand to face a wall and slightly touching with your hands.
• Slowly lift up and down on your toes.
• Repeat 10 times, rest, then do 2-3 more sets.
• Try not to stand for a greater challenge.

The first step in preventing an injury or fall is to test your balance and be honest with yourself that your balance needs work. Your physical therapists can make a big difference in improving your balance and vestibular system, improve your ability to be active safely. Meet yours for more information and how you can return to a pain active lifestyle.

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