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Newspaper Article
DOCTOR'S DIARY
2009
Overview
Finally, further to the recent comments on the value of balance exercises in minimising the risk of \"falling off one's perch\", Mrs June Smedley describes how this became a major issue for her when, as a keen gardener, she found difficulty staying upright among her plants. She commends a simple piece of equipment, the Physio-med Balance Pad, on which she practises her own series of exercises: shifting her weight from foot to foot, twisting her upper torso, reaching up and so on. She says that just a few minutes twice a day on the pad has \"greatly improved my balance and confidence\". Meanwhile, Dr Adam Darowski, consultant physician at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, devotes a chapter in his excellent Falls: The Facts (OUP, 2008) to the value of such exercises in preventing the serious consequences of falls - including 60,000 hip fractures a year. \"Nearly half of those aged 80 or over will fall at least once a year,\" he says, \"but those of us who work in this field of medicine have a great problem in persuading people of its importance.\"
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Daily Telegraph
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