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In clients/patients with high risk of falling, do you specifically program “balance” work for them?
This got me jumping around the google machine and I had a few observations. The first being that it was surprising to me how often the words “frail” and “elderly” (or some variation) were paired together. Are older populations really as frail as we think? I mean how often do you see the phrase “frail middle aged man” but I digress.
I understand that with age and lack of activity comes a substantial loss of cross sectional muscle mass, so would simply implementing a program to increase overall strength and muscle help with the balance or should the balance aspect be a focus on-top of the strength and conditioning?
I was going to add that this was me assuming if there was no underlying tendinopathy but as with the assumption that elders are frail I assume that elder populations who were previously not active have some sort of pain or injury.