Seniors should exercise more or risk ‘frozen’ muscles


When tissue fibres of muscles, tendons and ligaments are rarely used, those fibres tend to shrink and limit the range of motion that can be reached without injury.

TWO weeks after my mother passed the birthday that made her an official senior citizen, she fell and badly sprained a rotator cuff.

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