“Life is about movement - everything that is alive moves.”
(1)
What a great reminder!
No matter your age, you really must move. As you age, you have to move more (than
you may feel like)! Life
is motion. Motion is life. Researchers are really sharing
some amazing information on this topic that will inspire
us all (and our cherished family members!) to exercise so that we can all grow old and grow old(er)
gracefully. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office and our Groton chiropractic patients will all grow old better working together, exercising, moving, and meeting at the office for gentle Cox® treatment!
BED REST AND MOBILITY
Bed rest isn’t always best! It may be less
frightening than moving and be even a bit
calming. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will give you that! If
you have ever been hospitalized, you know there is a
lot of bed rest, maybe even too much for your liking! A study of patients in an
acute care hospital ward uncovered information that inpatient
mobility was low despite their individual capacities to
move and desires to move. (1) It
is vital to keep acute patients - and those with new bouts of back pain and/or neck pain, too - moving to get them better! Beneficially, acutely hospitalized older
patients enhanced their muscle strength and power while they
were in the hospital following an individualized
multicomponent exercise program that integrated power
training in just 3 days! (2) In a review of the benefits
of exercise for frail older adults,
researchers emphasized the value of preserving
functional abilities for those who want to age healthily.
They further stressed that exercise and physical activity are effective
for the prevention of falls, hospital stays, improved
cognition, etc. Exercises from power training (yes – power training for older
folks!) to resistance training, balance exercises, aerobic training, walking,
etc. (3) Mobility is part of keeping frailty away, and
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encourages it!
FRAILTY AND MOBILITY
Those of us over 65 years old are said to be more prone to frailty, increasing our risk of lot
of other undesirable health issues, both cognitive
and physical. The hope we all have is that frailty is reversible.
Researchers have studied this issue by going over
published studies on this topic of frailty reversal. Luckily,
56.7% of the papers proposed that it is reversible (getting
a person who is frail/severely frail to a state of being just pre-frail or just mildly frail). (4) Those are positive
outcomes! One study said that frail and even “pre” frail older
patients demonstrated better physical performance and function following
a short (6 week) facility-based exercise routine that
involved a walking-based high intensity interval training. 64% bettered
their frailty rating. Particularly, muscle power went up
by 47%, muscle strength by 34%, and aerobic capacity rose
19%. (5) And other advantages with physical
activity in general: energy and a better emotional state! Frailty and aging are
more apt to decrease energy levels and increase
fatigue and emotional distress. Moving and physical activity has been described
to combat those feelings in older women as well as extend
life expectancy and cut back on some negative effects of a
sedentary lifestyle. (6) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office thinks you’ll
agree that these are positive things!
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Tom Menendez on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
shares the effective gentle
protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in treating the older
patient.
Schedule your Groton chiropractic
appointment now. You’re alive. What a wonderful fact, one to be thankful for by moving!