6 Exercises to help control high blood pressure

This is part 6 in “Easy Exercises to Combat Chronic Disease.”

In this series, occupational therapist Kevin Shelley focuses on simple exercises to help manage common chronic diseases.

Hypertension is known as the ’silent killer' since there are often no symptoms until serious damage has been done. These exercises can help you control it.

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is perhaps the king of the silent killers. About half of us have it, though you may not know it unless you test for it.

I’ve seen countless patients in the clinic with alarmingly high blood pressure who appear pe...