How firmly you can squeeze your hand provides clinicians with a snapshot into your overall health—with studies consistently ...

Alternative therapies such as aerobic exercise, resistance or strength training and isometric hand grip exercises could help people reduce blood pressure. Biofeedback and device-guided slow breathing ...

Background: Low hand grip strength is a strong predictor for both long-term and short-term disability and mortality. The Nintendo Wii Balance Board (WBB) is an inexpensive, portable, wide-spread ...

Isometric exercises — tightening muscles without moving nearby joints, such as in a plank move — are effective for lowering high blood pressure. Even more, the findings could lay the groundwork for ...

Isometric exercises may be best for lowering blood pressure, new research finds. Isometric exercise is any static exercise where you hold a muscular contraction without movement, such as planks or ...

Convenient, safe, and non-invasive, "handgrip strength" is a reliable predictor for age-related disease and disability. Now, a groundbreaking study led by the University of South Australia and ...

Doctors have extolled the value of exercise in lowering blood pressure for decades. This rings especially true for cardio exercise like running or jumping rope. A new study out of the UK, however, ...

While most types of exercise involve a lot of moving around, isometric exercise is performed while sitting still – it's defined as a form of exercise involving the static contraction of a muscle ...

Try this quick experiment: While holding a cup in your hand, reach your arm out in front of you and hold that position for as long as you can. Your arm gets tired and burns after a while, doesn’t it?

You may want to sit down for this—on the wall, that is. If you are looking for the single best set of exercises to lower your high blood pressure, isometric exercises such as wall sits and planks may ...

The study-population consisted of 18 women and 12 men with a mean age of 69 ± 4.2 years. Characteristics included height 168.5 ± 6.9 cm, weight 72.5 ± 13.7 kg, BMI 25.5 ± 4.2 kg/m 2, number of ...