I’m a personal trainer who works with seniors: this simple test can assess your fall risk as you get older. Here’s how long you should be able to do it
The article discusses the importance of assessing fall risk in seniors through a simple single-leg balance test. It highlights that falls are a leading cause of injury for adults over 65 and emphasizes the need for early identification of balance issues. The author, a personal trainer, provides instructions for performing the test safely.
- ▪Falls are the leading cause of injury for adults over 65, according to the CDC.
- ▪The single-leg balance test can help assess fall risk and is suitable for most adults.
- ▪Researchers found that lower balance ability is associated with a greater risk of recurrent falls.
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| Original publisher | Tom's Guide |
| Canonical URL | https://www.tomsguide.com/wellness/workouts/im-a-personal-trainer-who-works-with-seniors-this-simple-test-can-assess-your-fall-risk-as-you-get-older-heres-how-long-you-should-be-able-to-do-it |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 09:30:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T09:34:56.158Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T09:34:56.158Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | EsQDwX90A7I6 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Wellness Fitness Workouts I’m a personal trainer who works with seniors: this simple test can assess your fall risk as you get older. Here’s how long you should be able to do it Features By Jennifer Rizzuto published 18 May 2026 How long can you balance on one leg? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Copy link Facebook X Reddit Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter According to the CDC, falls are the leading cause of injury for adults over 65.
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