Activities to Help Seniors Improve Their Balance

Age-related issues, injury, or hospital admissions can increase the risk of mobility constraints, gait issues, and walking problems in senior citizens. Services like our home care physical therapy in Freehold, New Jersey, can help senior citizens improve their balance and mobility. Other than physical therapy, seniors can also improve their balance through recreational activities. A few notable examples include:

• Senior Yoga
  Yoga can help strengthen joints and bones. It will also help seniors improve their overall balance, flexibility, and strength, reducing the risk of falls at home and promoting overall better health and wellness.
• Taking a Walk
  A simple walk can provide senior citizens with many benefits. It improves cardiovascular health, strengthens muscles, and helps keep their weight steady. Taking a walk regularly can also improve balance, coordination, and range of motion.
• Swimming
  Swimming is a great activity to improve strength, coordination, cardiovascular health, and balance. It is also easier on aging bones, joints, and muscles.
• Static Stretching Exercises
  Stretching helps relax tight muscle fibers, improving mobility, range of motion, and balance. Great stretching exercises seniors can do at home include head rotations, single-limb stance, side leg raises, back leg raises, and clock reaches. At Mobility & Motion LLC, we provide physical therapy in Monmouth County, to help seniors exercise and stretch at home.

Taking steps to improve balance and coordination at home will allow seniors to remain independent longer and reduce their risk of falls.

For Medicare approved physical therapy, in-home physical therapy, and hands-on therapy in New Jersey, feel free to call us at 908-907-7032.