Mobility

Maintaining your mobility healthy throughout the winter can be challenging, but with some of our suggestions it may become easier. It will be important to keep your pain level to a minimum. Consider standing up more often when indoors. As the cold approaches, we tend to seat more and spend more time cozying up to the telly with having a warm drink. Consider doing often breaks to use the loo, make a drink or simply a small walk around the house.

Having a daily routine to go for a small walk can also be an option. Consistency is better than intensity, so even if your walk seems small, consider doing it often rather than straining yourself.

Core exercises

With the higher risk for falls over these cold months, exercises to strengthen your core should be in your routine. Having a stronger core will reduce your risk of falls helping you maintain balance and stability even in riskier situations – like the floor being slippery or icy.

Some core exercises can include:

• Pilates
• Yoga
• Gym core group lessons
• Weight and strength training
• Balance training

During this festive season

During this time of the year, along with some routines of the season, it is normal to spend long hours driving to visit family, seating for longer periods of time, have poor posture due to wrapping gifts and even strain your back and shoulders due to carrying heavy weights like shopping bags and groceries.

Along with the colder climate, we have some tips to help you stay strong and incident free for this season.

• Slip-free shoes can help prevent falls in icy and slippery surfaces, these can include rubber sole shoes
• Staying warm and dressing up in layers, both for indoors and outdoors
• Move regularly, keeping up an exercise routine, even low impact home workouts can be highly beneficial for your overall health
• Regular check-in with your chiropractor to ease off any aches and pains in your joints, muscle tension, spinal pain as well as stiffness caused by stress, etc.