DOCTORS should prescribe exercise to help older folk live longer, a study shows. Regular workouts were found to reduce the ...

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Doing exercise is obviously better than not doing ... downloaded more than 10,000 times, aimed at older people, updated in the last three years, in English and not exclusive to any specific ...

A doctor has shared the one type of exercise we should all be ... "As people get older they tend to lose muscle and as people do that they become frail and you lose functional capacity and that ...

Regular physical activity is often praised for its benefits to physical and mental health, and now, new research has revealed ...

The average age of the participants in the studies was 76 years old and three quarters of them were women. Eighty-one of these trials compared exercise (all types) versus a control intervention (doing ...

Johns Hopkins Medi cine says as a body ages, tendons get thicker and less elastic. Stretching can help counter this ...

They warn that millions of older people risk falls because they are failing to maintain their strength. Nearly a quarter of over-65s don't do any strength exercises, the Chartered Society of ...

Objective—To assess the effectiveness of exercise programmes in preventing falls (and/or lowering the risk of falls and fall related injuries) in older people. Design—A review of controlled clinical ...

Conclusions: The elderly people who regularly practiced tai chi not only showed better proprioception at the ankle and knee joints than sedentary controls, but also better ankle kinaesthesis than ...