{"id":16950,"date":"2024-11-21T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:23:36","slug":"how-good-is-your-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16950","title":{"rendered":"How Good Is Your Mobility?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In your 20s, bending down to tie your shoes or reaching back to grab your wallet feels effortless. As you age, your body\u2019s soft tissues, especially the joints, become more rigid<\/a> and can make daily tasks much more difficult.<\/p>\n

Eventually, your joints can stiffen so much that basic movement, like walking, becomes uncomfortable or even painful, which can increase your risk of falling or developing arthritis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis often creates a vicious cycle where joint stiffness leads to sedentary behavior, which leads to weaker and stiffer joints,\u201d said Brad Manor, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

Recent studies<\/a> have found a correlation between joint health and longevity, and that people with better lower limb mobility are less likely<\/a> to suffer from falls in their older years.<\/p>\n

A joint is any place in the body where two bones meet. Hinge joints, like the knee, bend and straighten. Ball-and-socket joints, like the shoulder, move in multiple ways and rotate. And each one has a specific range of motion that you want to maintain.<\/p>\n

For example, your ankle should be mobile enough for you to raise the ball of your foot at least one inch off the ground while keeping your heel on the floor. Loss of ankle mobility<\/a> makes basic movements like squatting and walking more difficult.<\/p>\n

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In your 20s, bending down to tie your shoes or reaching back to grab your wallet feels effortless. As you age, your body\u2019s soft tissues, especially the joints, become more rigid and can make daily tasks much more difficult.Eventually, your joints can stiffen so much that basic movement, like walking, becomes uncomfortable or even painful, which can increase your risk of falling or developing arthritis.\u201cThis often creates a vicious cycle where joint stiffness leads to sedentary behavior, which leads to weaker and stiffer joints,\u201d said Brad Manor, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.Recent studies have found a correlation between joint health and longevity, and that people with better lower limb mobility are less likely to suffer from falls in their older years.A joint is any place in the body where two bones meet. Hinge joints, like the knee, bend and straighten. Ball-and-socket joints, like the shoulder, move in multiple ways and rotate. And each one has a specific range of motion that you want to maintain.For example, your ankle should be mobile enough for you to raise the ball of your foot at least one inch off the ground while keeping your heel on the floor. Loss of ankle mobility makes basic movements like squatting and walking more difficult.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16952,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16953,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions\/16953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}