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REAL-News --December-2020Dec 01

December 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – December 2020

  December 2020 What Makes Old Folks So Tight: Muscle-Tendon or Nerves We all lose flexibility as we age and we all need it every bit as much as we age. We have addressed some of these issues here, here, here and here. There are basically 4 sources of restrictions on range of motion (ROM):Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: aging, dynamic balance, flexibility, gait, reduce your risk of falling, Senior Training, Stretching

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July 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News July 2017

  July 2017 Old Feet and ACL Repairs Affect Balance Similarly What do the feet of older folks and those of athletes with torn anterior cruciate (ACL) have in common? The answer may solve health and sports science matters more than you’d imagine. Much of sports science deals with the musculoskeletal system but new infoRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: ACL injuries, ankle injuries, balance, creatine, functional fitness, gait

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June 14, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens Summer 2017

Summer 2017 Training Tenets Take Back Seat to Neurological Aging Every so often, a brilliant concept crops up in the exercise field that makes such intuitive sense we trainers just want to slap ourselves with glee. Thus, over the past 20 years or so, balance and agility training for the aging population has offered theRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: aging, field of health or exercise science, functional fitness, gait, gait training, physical activity, Rock Steady Boxing

REAL-News --December-2020Dec 19

December 19, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Alzheimer’s Disease and Falling: A Neuro-Cognitive Disaster

A study from the University of Wisconsin asked why it is that those with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) tend to have more and more catastrophic falls than other older people with no cognitive impairment. Suffering three times the rate of falls as age- and gender-adjusted peers, those with AD, which affects mental and memory function, areRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, balance drills, cognitive function, gait

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