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New NCHPAD Document: Fall Injury Prevention and Exercise


Read this month's new document on Fall Injury Prevention and Exercise to learn how to strengthen and stabilize your body and reduce the risk of injuring yourself in a fall. Achieve a healthy balance in other areas of your life by using NCHPAD products and resources to add variety to your summer workouts and adventures.

Balance is defined as our ability to control our body's center of mass so that we can remain upright, even when we encounter a disturbance, such as a bump from another individual or when we trip over a crack in the sidewalk. Multiple systems contribute to our ability to balance in standing and moving environments. The sensory systems (i.e., vision, somatosensory, and vestibular) provide us with information about the surrounding environment. The motor system uses the information from the sensory systems to produce coordinated postural muscle activity to help us keep our balance.

In addition to strengthening muscles, there are several other things that an individual can do to decrease the chance of falling.

To read more, access the full factsheet at http://www.ncpad.org/471/2353/Fall~Injury~Prevention.


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