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Can vitamin supplements help?

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Can vitamin supplements help?

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HUNTINGTON, NY – Studies conducted at Virginia Tech are determining the reasons why seniors fall. Millions of our seniors fall each year causing broken hips and other major injuries. It is a serious problem — 2.2 million seniors need medical attention, one in ten falls causes serious injury and there are 340,000 broken hips reported annually. Risk factors to falling and getting hurt include a person’s age, a sudden drop in blood pressure when standing up; arthritis; muscle strength; balance; declining vision, dementia; and using multiple prescription medicines, especially certain antidepressants and epilepsy or heart medications that affect balance. “The signs are common,” says Mr. Richards, president of Biotrex Vitamins, “Stiffening joints, backaches, difficulty in getting out of bed in the morning. Ever increasing use of painkillers like ibuprofen in the morning and maybe a few throughout the day to keep you going. The stresses associated with getting older are hard on your body and

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