Your body awareness naturally declines with age, increasing your risk of falls. This tends to make people more hesitant to move, said Jia Han, a professor of physiotherapy at Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. And so a vicious cycle begins: When you move less, your body awareness deteriorates, which prompts you to move even less. But there are several exercises that some small studies suggest can help improve your balance, stability and gait by enhancing awareness of your position and movement.
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