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

Measuring how effectively an individual is growing older may be so simple as balancing on one leg. It might not be simple for everybody to keep up stability on one leg, however in line with Mayo Clinic analysis, it may be a dependable measure of neuromuscular growing older 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 research, explains the findings and why it is by no means too late to enhance your stability.
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