Exercise if You are Blind or Low Vision

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Find tips for developing and maintaining good balance and strength and advice on exercising safely if you are experiencing pain.

Stretching and Flexibility for Blind and Low Vision

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)As we age our bodies become less flexible. Flexibility is often taken for granted, much like good balance, until it gets a little harder to reach an upper shelf, pick up the newspaper, or put on socks. (Sorry, it’s not your arms getting shorter!) Flexibility is the ability […]

An older person holding their arms parallel at shoulder height

Developing Balance and Strength if You are Blind or Low Vision

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)Balance Balance is where all physical activity begins. When a baby takes its first step, it has already started to master balance. We quickly take balance for granted once we get our bearings as children. We forget that it’s a skill that can diminish—as we discover as we […]

Does Pain Keep You From Exercising?

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)As we age, we may experience a variety of aches and pains that come and go or pain that is a chronic problem. Pain is our bodies’ way of signaling that something is not right and we need to pay attention to it. But it does not always […]