Balance Exercises

You probably take your balance for granted – until something goes wrong.

Technically, your awareness of your position and movement through space is called proprioception. (It comes from the Latin words meaning being receptive to your own).

Good proprioceptive awareness helps you avoid injury and speeds recovery.

Little sensors in your joints send vital information to your brain about how your body is moving. They can get damaged from injury or just not be very efficient from lack of use. When they don’t work effectively, your reflex response time slows.

They need to be switched back on.

These exercises will increase your proprioceptive awareness thereby helping to prevent injury and speed up recovery.