What is the shower movement that ensures we age well

During your daily shower, it is recommended that you make a movement - with both hands - for at least half a minute to ensure your mobility as the years go by.

The washing the back while you are in the shower for a few seconds every day, can ensure that you are better and greater mobility of the shoulders and spine, an essential prerequisite for healthy ageing.

According to Dr. Phillip Higgins, a physical therapist at the University of Washington Medical Center, trying to sponge rub that difficult and inaccessible spot in the middle of the back is an excellent way to improve shoulder condition, upper back mobility and even relieve neck pain.

Experts suggest spending just 30 seconds a day in the bathroom for the purpose of specific hand movement.

In this way the shoulders are exercised in their full range of motion and allow us to make many movements that we may now take for granted, but usually find difficult to perform as the years go by, e.g. scratching our backs, grabbing a cup on a high shelf or taking something out of the back pocket of our trousers.

Shoulder mobility allows us to live independently and autonomously as the years go by.

If we do not exercise them daily, the shoulders gradually lose their mobility and the joints twitch and ache when we try to do movements that require us to raise our arms up and behind our heads.

Another important parameter of good shoulder mobility is better mobility of the neck and better mobility of the shoulder. avoidance of autogamy. When the shoulders are in contraction and it is difficult to lift the arms behind the head, the correct posture and our ability to stand with a straight back can be affected.

These are factors that can cause neck pain.

Dr Phillip Higgins points out that make sure to do the back rubbing movement with both hands alternately.

Also, the more we insist on doing this movement daily, the more we will see the range of motion improve as the weeks go by.

In the meantime, a brush with a handle will allow us to keep the parts of the back we can't reach clean!