Examples of "body awareness" in the geriatric context:

**Body awareness exercises refer to activities that address posture, core stability** .... Geriatric Physical Diagnosis: The Upper Extremities.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552856_5

**Tai Chi exercises to enhance balance and body awareness, when combined with balance training, may also reduce the rate of falls**. A randomized trial of Tai ...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/511780_ans11



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When you get to be my age, you understand the importance of body awareness for safety reasons.

610,000 refs for body awareness; over 700 refs for ["body awareness"+exercise+geriatric]

are: **to increase body awareness, kinesthetic awareness** ... therapy, work with psychotic, geriatric patients, Vew Heights Hospital. ...
www.springerlink.com/index/3MT38G310H25L08P.pdf

Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation: Volume 16(1) September 2000 pp 33-53 ...... **biofeedback should have good body awareness**, good Kegel exercise technique, ...
pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/tgr/fulltext.00013614-200009000-00006.htm

Geriatric massage research results ... the LMTs' measures of range of motion (ROM); **body posture; skin color and tone; and body awareness all improved**. ...
www.thrivingnow.com/for/Rick/geriatric-massage-research-res...