Balance. I bet you expected sex
An excerpt from a medtrack article
My favorite CDE was the first person to show me how simple and effective that standing on one leg could be to help me regain my balance. All I had to do was to stand on one leg and then the other for 30 seconds each. When I could master that, the next step was to do it with my eyes closed. Finally, she said to do that on a pillow.
My photographer completed agreed. He does the same exercises.
My podiatrist told me very much the same thing. "Balance is important for everyone," says Dr. John Jachimiak [1], "but we tend to lose it as we age. We can get it back and improve it with this simple exercise." He is a board certified surgeon who specializes in sports medicine and diabetic foot reconstruction.
This works with our proprioceptor sense, a "distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally," Wikipedia says. [2] Dr. Jachimiak says that this is where a joint is in a spacial relationship to fire the appropriate muscles to stand erect.
The biggest difference from what my favorite CDE told me is that for Dr. Jachimiak the final step is literally onto a folded towel instead of a pillow. Essentially the same.
What else, I asked? Do these exercises on once or twice a day, he says.
That's all? Just a couple of minutes and no special equipment?
"Right," Dr. Jachimiak replied. "Think of it as a long learning curve and not as a sprint."
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