Thursday, December 15, 2011

Help for Hips

Currently, the number one injury that requires older adults to enter a nursing home is a broken hip suffered in a fall. Want to live out your years on your terms? Then work the muscles of the hip at home with exercises like squats, lunges, and pelvic thrusts, and use the adductor and abductor machines at the gym. Activity keeps joints supple and healthy, and the strong muscles, balance, and coordination you develop by working out can help prevent falls.