Flexibility exercises are often included in the exercise regimens of athletes and exercisers. New research in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports suggests that levels of flexibility may affect survival in middle-aged individuals.
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This examines how people can stretch in 20 ways using seven different joints, with some examples including being able to touch your toes, being able to touch the back of your left shoulder with your right hand over your head. Brazilian researchers assessed the flexibility of participants in a study using a system called Flexindex
Men with a low score had almost twice the risk once factors like age, obesity and existing health conditions into account. He added that as flexibility tends to decrease as we age, people may wish to include stretching exercises into their routine and medics may wish to flexibility assessments in physical health evaluations.Flexibility, alongside aspects like balance, is considered one of the signs of overall good physical health.
Over 200,000 falls admissions in this group were recorded in England alone in 2022/23, with 20,000 fall related deaths also recorded among the entire population in this time.
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