It's longer than you might think.

What standing on 1 leg says about your health. In a new study just released in PLOS One, researchers recruited healthy adults ...

How Long Can You Stand on 1 Leg? It May Indicate How Healthy You Are "If you have poor balance, you're at risk of falling, whether or not you're moving," a senior author of a new Mayo Clinic study ...

Standing on one leg can train the body to coordinate muscle and vestibular responses to keep our bodies in correct balance, according to Kaufman. “If you don’t use it, you lose it. If you use ...

This “sitting to rising” test is backed up by new research, which found that middle-aged adults who could sit down on the ...

It’s a stance flamingos and other feathered species usually take, but seeing how long you can balance on one leg can be a good test of your health, according to a new study. By testing how long ...

The test involves simply timing how long one can stand on one leg with eyes open. While walking patterns show little variation, balance abilities on one leg show a stark decline — about 2.2 seconds ...

Standing more does not improve heart health compared with sitting and may increase a person's risk for circulatory issues such as deep vein thrombosis and varicose veins, a new study finds.

How long you can balance on one leg, like a flamingo, may be an important indicator of health and how well you’re aging, a study finds. Experts explain.