Rebounding, an exercise with surprising benefits

IMO we have to start from where we are. My balance is terrible and any kind of skating would terrify me. On the rebounder I can simply walk, gradually building up confidence to do some very small jumps and hops. I don’t look to it for my main exercise. I still (at almost 77) run, hike and train with weights. My main aim on the rebounder would be to improve the lymphatic drainage in my right leg, but I haven’t done enough on it yet to be able to report back. Compression I have found extremely helpful, but it only affects the symptom, so that fluid that would have pooled in my foot and ankle stays instead higher up in my calf. Perhaps the rebounder could actually help my faulty lymph gland work better, which would be far preferable.

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