Balance training sounds like something only gymnasts and yoga instructors need to worry about, but it’s actually the most underrated predictor of how gracefully you’ll age and how long you’ll live ...

Home-based high-intensity aerobic training was associated with greater improvement in cerebellar ataxia symptoms, fitness, and fatigue compared with guidelines-recommended balance training in a ...

Perturbation-based balance training might be one of the most versatile fitness techniques you’ve never heard of today. Touted as a way to prevent falls among older adults and those with neurological ...

Every 11 seconds, an older adult visits an emergency room for a fall-related injury. Yet most Americans remain blissfully unaware that a simple 10-minute daily routine could dramatically alter these ...

Most people don’t think about their balance until they take a spill. But that’s common: 1 in 4 adults 65 and older falls each year, and 20 percent of those spills result in serious injury, such as a ...

Falls represent a major cause of injury and loss of independence in older adults. Recent advances in balance training have focussed on perturbation‐based methods that challenge the neuromuscular ...

VELA Chairs expert: Prioritize balance training now to prevent falls and mobility issues later. Get tips on strength, proprioception, and postural awareness. Prioritizing balance throughout adulthood ...

I’m not sure how or why it happened. Most likely, while changing direction I slipped or tripped on one of the taped lines of the Har-Tru (clay) court I was playing on. It’s not the first time it’s ...

Study Design 4 week training intervention. Background Previous research has suggested that both dynamic balance training and concurrent cognitive tasks can improve postural control in subjects with ...

1 Ghent University, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Ghent, Belgium 2 Ghent University, Department of Physiotherapy and Orthopedics, Ghent, Belgium Background Chronic ankle ...