Made to Move: Nine Simple Steps for Active Aging

By Joseph Wegley DPT

The Human Body Is Made to Move at Any Age

The human body is made to move, and it moves best with practice. If you fail to use your joints and muscles consistently as you age, you can lose your range of motion and physical capability. However, you can keep your ability to function well if you stay active. Even if you have lost some capabilities through lack of use, injury, or a medical condition, you can regain them-or at least improve them-at any age. The human body is remarkable at healing and adapting.

Regaining and maintaining the ability to move allows you to live a more independent life-one that gives you freedom to do more of what you want to do.

Joseph Wegley, DPT works with individuals every day to help them regain and exceed previous mobility levels regardless of age, injury, or illness. His passion is helping people regain balance, strength, coordination, and the ability to complete routine daily tasks. This ability allows them to live more fully and with greater independence. Through his work, he has identified nine benchmarks for maintaining and maximizing your mobility.

Made to Move provides you with practical tools to help you maintain or regain your mobility:

-Instructions for simple benchmark movements to establish a baseline, wherever you are
-Activities to help you improve if you can't fully achieve the benchmark
-Safe, effective exercises for strength and endurance using equipment you already have or can obtain inexpensively
-Tips to help you realize you have the power to do this for yourself
-Encouragement that you can improve your mobility, no matter where you are now

With a little instruction and motivation, most aging adults could prevent falls and a decline in their ability to do routine daily tasks. Joe wrote this manual to reach more aging adults before they need the services of a physical therapist to recover from injury or illness. His mission is to help people regain, maintain, and improve their physical abilities well into the later years of life-to offer them a means to greater satisfaction.

Joseph Wegley is board certified in Neurologic Physical Therapy with the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties and recognized as a Certified Exercise Physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine, as well as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist with the Brain Injury Association of America. He began his pursuit toward the profession of physical therapy by working as a physical therapy aide in a nursing home environment. It was here that he found his passion for contributing positively to the lives of aging adults. He obtained his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Montana in 2004 and practices in Boise, Idaho.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733611703
• ISBN13: 9781733611701
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Made to Move, Pllc
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"