“Life is about movement - everything that is alive moves.”
(1)
What a great thing to realize!
No matter your age, you really must move. As you grow older, you have to move more (than
you may feel like)! Life
is motion. Motion is life. Researchers are really sharing
some great information on this fact that will motivate
us all (and our loved ones!) to keep
active so that we can all grow old and grow old(er)
gracefully. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center and our Manahawkin 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 is not always best! It may be less
frightening than moving and be even a bit
calming. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center will give you that! When hospitalized, there
is lots of bed rest, maybe even a bit too much for a patient’s
liking! A study of patients in an
acute care hospital ward found that inpatient
mobility was negligible despite their individual capabilities and desires to move. (1) It’s so important to keep acute patients - and those with new bouts of back pain and/or neck pain, too - moving so that
they can heal! Beneficially, acutely hospitalized older
patients improved their muscle strength and power while hospitalized using an individualized
multicomponent exercise program that incorporated power
training in as little as 3 days! (2) In a review of the good that exercise offers for frail older adults,
researchers stressed the value of preserving
functional abilities for those who want to grow old gracefully.
They further stressed that exercise and physical activity are good
to prevent of falls, hospital stays, enriched
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
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center encourages that!
FRAILTY AND MOBILITY
Those of us over 65 years old are said to be more at
risk to frailty, increasing our risk of lot
of other undesirable health issues, both cognitive
and physical. The desire we all have is that frailty is reversible.
Researchers have analyzed this issue by examining
published studies on this topic of frailty reversal. Luckily,
56.7% of the papers proposed that it is reversible (returning
a person who is frail/severely frail to a state of being ‘pre-frail’ or just
mildly so). (4) Those are promising
outcomes! One study shared that frail and even “pre” frail older
patients demonstrated better physical performance and function following
a brief (6 week) facility-based exercise program that
involved a walking-based high intensity interval training. 64% improved
their frailty rating. Specifically, muscle power improved
by 47%, muscle strength by 34%, and aerobic capacity by
19%. (5) And other additional benefits with physical
activity in general: energy and a better emotional state! Frailty and aging tend to decrease energy levels and raise
fatigue and emotional distress. Moving and physical activity has been reported
to contend with those feelings in older women as well as extend
life expectancy and lower some negative effects of a
sedentary lifestyle. (6) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center thinks you’ll
concur that these are positive things!
CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Tom Menendez on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the effectiveness of the gentle
protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in treating the older
patient.
Make your Manahawkin chiropractic
appointment now. You’re alive. What a wonderful fact!
Celebrate that with some movement.