{"id":5010,"date":"2013-11-23T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posturepractice.com\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2015-12-18T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:11:50","slug":"decline-in-lumbar-extensor-muscle-strength-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/decline-in-lumbar-extensor-muscle-strength-in-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in Lumbar Extensor Muscle Strength in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent study in <em>BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0shows that muscle strength of the back extensors declines with age, and accelerates to an approximate 50% decline the third to sixth decade of life.<\/p>\n<p>The result: &#8220;Poor physical performance; increased risk of falls, fractures and disability; increased mortality and poor quality of life; fear induced inactivity are associated with a decrease in muscle strength in older adults&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>StrongPosture\u00ae implication:<\/strong> The more time dedicated to balanced, stronger posture, the lesser likelihood of back extensor decline and loss of muscular and postural strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Decline in Lumbar Extensor Muscle Strength in Older Adults:\u00a0Correlation With Age, Gender and Spine Morphology. \u00a0Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Martin Bailey, Raymond Lee BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2013;14(215)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent study in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders\u00a0\u00a0shows that muscle strength of the back extensors declines with age, and accelerates to an approximate 50% decline the third to sixth decade of life. The result: &#8220;Poor physical performance; increased risk of falls, fractures and disability; increased mortality and poor quality of life; fear induced inactivity are associated with&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/decline-in-lumbar-extensor-muscle-strength-in-older-adults\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,77,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posturepractice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}