“Life is about movement - everything that is alive moves.”
(1)
What a great thing to remember!
No matter your age, you really must move. As you grow older, you have to move more (than
you may want)! Life equals motion. Motion equals life. Researchers are really sharing
some great information on this fact that will inspire
us all (and our cherished family members!) to move so that we can all age
gracefully. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC and our La Grande 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
scary than moving and be even a bit
comforting. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will give you that! If
you have ever been hospitalized, you know there’s a
lot of bed rest, maybe even too much for your liking! A study of patients in an
acute care hospital ward uncovered information that inpatient
mobility was low despite their individual capabilities and desires to get up and move around. (1) It
is 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 enhanced their muscle strength and power while they
were in the hospital following a personalized
multicomponent exercise program that incorporated power
training in just 3 days! (2) In a review of the good that exercise offers for frail older adults,
researchers stressed the value of maintaining
functional abilities for those who want to age healthily.
They further underscored the fact 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 at bay, and
Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC encourages that!
FRAILTY AND MOBILITY
Those of us over 65 years old are said to be more at
risk to frailty, amplifying our risk of lot
of other adverse health issues, both cognitive
and physical. The hope we all have is that frailty is reversible.
Researchers have studied this issue by appraising
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 just pre-frail or just mildly frail). (4) Those are positive
outcomes! One study shared that frail and even “pre” frail older
patients demonstrated better physical performance and function following
a short (6 week) facility-based exercise routine that
included a walking-based high intensity interval training. 64% upped
their frailty rating. Specifically, muscle power improved
by 47%, muscle strength rose 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 are
more apt to lower energy levels and stated
fatigue and emotional distress. Moving and physical activity has been described
to contend with those feelings in older women as well as increase
life expectancy and reduce some negative effects of a
sedentary lifestyle. (6) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC thinks you’ll
agree that these are beneficial!
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Tom Menendez on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
details the effectiveness of the gentle
protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in treating the older
patient.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic
appointment now. You’re alive. What a wonderful fact!
Celebrate that with some movement.