Steps to Avoid an Accident

[elleng]

Preventing a fall, and the resulting injuries, isn’t simply a matter of being more careful. Indeed, experts who have studied falls wish that people would take measures to protect themselves much as they do against heart disease or viral infections.

Judy A. Stevens, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stressed the importance of exercise. Among those who do fall, she said, “if you’re in better physical condition, you’re less likely to be injured.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/science/steps-to-avoid-an-accident.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Sorry about this, so I thought I should share. I have inherent balance problems!

[Downwinder]

1. Think I should give up inline skating?

[elleng]

2. Not if you do it well!

[Downwinder]

3. It is my therapy for MS balance loss.

[elleng]

5. Excellent!

I have hydrocephalus and not doing any therapy. Might, some time, have surgery, but not enthusiastic about having a shunt placed in my BRAIN!

[Downwinder]

6. Some of the same symptoms. Skating you don't have to pick

your knees up like walking.

They told me for twenty years, "It's all in your head." How right they were.

Don't want to go to a seizure. You lose the subroutines that make things work. It takes a long time to relearn them.

[Nitram]

4. I highly recommend tai chi.

Double blind studies prove a regular practice of tai chi improves balance in the elderly. Not to mention, reduces stress, increases flexibility, tones muscles, lowers blood pressure, improves respiratory and cardiovascular function -I know, I sound like a snake-oil salesman, so I'll step off the soap box. But try it, you'll like it!