The 'sock and shoe challenge': How to protect yourself from falls

Good balance is the most unsung physical skill – it affects our ability to perform many daily activities, as well as being the key to preventing injury and falls.

Today, in the second part of the serialisation (which started in yesterday’s Daily Mail) from our new book Built To Move, we reveal simple tests which determine how well you can balance and why any wobbles you experience are a marker of accelerated ageing that require urgent attention.

Many health problems that arise after midlife occur because most of us don’t move enough, or not in the ways we need to.

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