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Being able to balance well will determine your well being in your later years. So how to improve your balancing skills?

Author: Cuzzi

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Well, what are we talking about? Yes, even robots have mastered it! We are talking about balancing. And some robots that are designed to replace human beings can right themselves when they trip over! But human beings are not so fortunate, especially when they have aged. When they fall, some just can't right themselves up. With leg muscles wobbling and hand muscles shrinking, the elderly will just need help when they fall or trip over. So can we program the elderly to improve on their balancing skills, like the way we do to robots? Not likely, but we can ask those of the younger aged ones to take remedial actions just so that they will be better prepare when they also reach old age.

Balancing skills can be trained, but it is just one of those problems that the authorities did not see coming. The problem could become serious as most developed countries will be faced with an aging population. The problem is that as more elderly people hurt themselves in falls, there is an acute shortage of capable people to take care of fallen patients, either in hospitals or at homes.

An obvious alternative is to prepare the younger set of people so that they can better overcome falling over with a better balancing skill. How, you may ask? The answer is in encouraging them to take up roller skating when they are young! Interestingly, roller skates can impart balancing skills. Besides its obvious purpose of making people move on a fast pace, roller skates will demand a wearer to improve their balancing skills or proprioception. A roller skater will have to balance with just those four wheels, failing which will mean a nasty fall. With practice, doing seemingly impossible feats can look easy.

Human beings learn how to craw and later walk, but it is assumed that they also learn how to balance correctly. Perhaps it is because people learn balancing the natural way, there is no requirement to learn how to balance well. But looking at the statistics, there is indeed a need to train people to better improve their balancing skills. If we were to look deeper, most sports required us to have a good grasp of balancing, and it is fair to assume that sportsmen and sportswomen will be less prone to falling over in their latter years. However, there has been no effort to test this theory, so we will have to assume that in order to reduce the number of elderly falling and hurting them, we should have greater efforts to improved better balancing skills whilst they are younger. If it doesn’t help in improving the statistics, at least we would have more people taking up healthy exercises instead of cocooning themselves in front of the computer! It could be the good old roller skates to the rescue then!

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Even robots can do it now!