Mayo Clinic Minute: What standing on one leg can inform an individual about how effectively they’re growing old

Measuring how effectively an individual is growing old may be so simple as balancing on one leg. It is probably not simple for everybody to take care of steadiness on one leg, however based on Mayo Clinic analysis, it may be a dependable measure of neuromuscular growing old for each women and men.

In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Kenton Kaufman, the W. Hall Wendel Jr. Musculoskeletal Research Professor who’s behind the examine, explains the findings and why it is by no means too late to enhance your steadiness.
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