Standing Stretches for Seniors – Real-time Routine
This standing stretching routine for seniors focuses on simple stretches that can help loosen up the muscles in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, and knees.
This standing routine is performed in real time, so it’s easy to follow along. It’s a great daily routine for seniors or for anyone looking for an easy but effective standing stretching routine.
Start off this standing stretching routine with a warmup including neck circles, standing Ts, modified jumping jacks, and standing march to help get the muscles warm and loose.
The first stretch, a standing sidebend, is great for the neck, arms, upper back, and hips.
Next, a chest stretch is a great way to open up the chest area, and this will also help with shoulders and breathing.
The final stretches might be best done while holding onto a chair, countertop, or using a cane for balance. Side lunge stretch, runner’s stretch, and standing hamstring stretch are all great to loosen up the muscles in the legs.
Knee pain can be a daily challenge, whether it occurs in the morning after waking up or at the end of a long day. This guided, real-time knee stretching routine is designed to help relieve knee pain, knee stiffness, improve knee flexibility, and support knee joint health, whether you are starting or ending your day (or anywhere in between).
An achy knee is often caused by tightness or weakness in the muscles around the knee. These knee stretches and exercises should help relieve the knee pain.
Leg pain and/or swelling in the legs can cause a lot of problems, and it can also prevent you from activities and even walking. Here are 5 easy ways to help reduce leg pain and swelling.
Relieve knee pain with Doctor Jo's best stretches and exercises for the knee. Our knees can become stiff and painful for many different reasons. The key is to mobilize, stretch, and then strengthen.
This knee pain relief routine can help strengthen and loosen up the muscles around the knee and hip area. These knee exercises are done in real time, so it’s easy to follow along with the routine.
Using a massage gun for knee pain relief is a popular way of relieving knee muscle soreness and tightness. So if you're struggling with knee pain, tight muscles, or soreness in your knees, a massage gun, may be just what your knees need!
Knee pain can come from weakness and/or tightness in one of the muscles that cross the knee joint. These knee stretches & exercises may help provide knee pain relief.
These knee stretches and exercises in bed are a great way to help relieve knee pain in the morning before getting up, and/or when going to bed at night. And they don’t necessarily need to be done in bed, they can also be done on the couch or floor.
Peripheral neuropathy is basically when you have damage to your peripheral nerves from either a trauma or disease. This can cause your hands and/or feet become numb and tingly. I'll focus on the feet/legs for this video.
This standing stretching routine for seniors focuses on simple stretches that can help loosen up the muscles in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, and knees.
