How can physical therapy help you…….
 Physical therapy can help:
- Decrease patient’s feeling of vertigo/dizziness
- Improve postural/balance control
- Improve gaze stability
- Improve overall endurance and muscle strengthening
- Learn adaptation and coping skills
- Benign Paroxysomal Positional Vertigo
TRY THE BALANCE SELF TEST |
Your specialized treatment program could include….
- Habituation exercises
- Eye exercises
- Balance exercises
- Repositioning Maneuver
- General conditioning and strength training
- Functional activities impacting patient’s life or work
- Education
- Home Exercise Program
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Specialized Equipment – The Balance Master – State of the Art equipment – Can help diagnose your balance problem…
 Uses some of the same computer technology used by NASA to measure shuttle crews’ equilibrium after flights in space- Measures and documents how muscles and joints function in maintaining balance
- Provides objective assessment and retraining of sensory and voluntary balance controls
- Interactive technology with clinically proven treatment protocols assist therapists in developing effective treatment programs
- Utilizes a dynamic 18” x 18” dual forceplate with rotation capabilities to test weight shifting
Three Systems, the inner ears, eyes and muscles/joints continuously work together to send information to and from the brain, helping us to walk, turn and bend over easily. If one of these systems develops a problem, we experience dizziness or loss of balance which can lead to falls. More than half of all accidental deaths in the elderly are caused by a fall. |
