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Single leg stance is it he component to avoiding falls. This video includes some simple exercises to help you improve your single leg stance balance to help you avoid falls.

Simple exercises to improve lower extremity strength. Lower extremity weakness is a predictive factor of falling. By improving your strength, you decrease your risk of falls.

A quick review to help you reduce swelling and achieve full extension following a total knee replacement. Proper elevation is key for reducing pain and swelling. Proper elevation can also help you achieve full extension which is key for returning to a normal gait pattern.

These three simple exercises might make it less painful to sit in extension of the knee following a total knee replacement. Sometimes by stretching out the muscles a little bit, it can help make that extension position a little less excruciating.

Has it been a few weeks since you had your total knee replacement? Are you still struggling to get the bend back? This stretch is a more advanced and aggressive stretch that can help you get the flexion back in your knee after a total knee replacement.

This exercise does two important things: One, it helps you achieve full extension. Two, It helps wake up your quad muscle which is often very weak following any replacement.

It's stretching has been helping reduce numbness in continuing down your leg, but you need something a little more. Try this stretch. This stretch is a little bit deeper than a regular extension stretch. Sometimes a little deeper stretch to the trick.

As a home health physical therapist, I see a lot of patients with total knee replacements. This is one of if not my favorite exercise to help patients get there flexion (bending) back.

Here's a quick video to advise you on how to advocate for your parents. It's important that you ask lots of questions. Don't be afraid of being annoying, you're just trying to get what your parents need.

This video includes a quick and simple test to determine if you are a fall risk as an older adult. This is a test put out by the CDC. Weakness is one of the biggest predictive factors of falling. This video helps you find out how weak your legs are.

3 of the simplest ways to start relieving the pain and discomfort that radiates from the low back.