Are you flexible? A new study shows it could be a factor in living longer.
Corewell Health’s Dr. Barry Franklin was a researcher on the study of 3,100 people with follow-up over 13 years. He told Michigan News Network about some of the findings.
“Men with the poorest flexibility were nearly twice as likely to die as compared with their follow-up counterparts who had high flexibility, and women with the poorest flexibility were nearly five times more likely to die than their counterparts with high flexibility,” Franklin said.
Franklin says age, and health status may also be a factor.
The study appears in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.
