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| BaltimoreMassageTherapy.com |
How easily you can sit down on the floor and get up
may suggest about how long you’ll live.
A new study
published in the November 1, 2012
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology suggests that flexibility, muscle strength, balance
and co-ordination are also important factors in determining longevity.
The study determined that if a middle-aged
or older man or woman can sit and rise from the floor using just one
hand – or even better without the help of a hand, they are not only in
the higher quartile of musculoskeletal fitness but their survival
prognosis is probably better than that of those unable to do so.” The
study showed that each additional support needed to sit down on the
floor and then get up - hand, forearm, knee, side of leg, or hand on the
knee - was associated with a 21 percent lower chance of survival over
the approximately six years of the study’s follow-up.
