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Balance

Preventing Falls

NKCH Physical Therapist shares common ways to help prevent falls and improve balance.

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Balance Therapy

Your sense of balance comes from different systems in your body, including your eyes, muscles and joints, and your complex inner ear system that feeds information to the brain.

When you have an issue with one or more of these systems, you may experience problems with dizziness, balance, blurred vision, focus and disorientation. You may even feel nauseous.

Balance disorders can strike at any age but they are more common as you get older. Medications, infections, inner ear problems or head injury can all cause balance disorders.

Treatment

Balance therapy can be life-changing. Our comprehensive team of therapists will develop an individualized treatment plan to help you get back to living a full life.

They focus your treatment on the specific systems affected and teach you ways to compensate so you can stay safe and reduce your risk of falling.

The team includes certified vestibular therapists who are specially trained to help with balance issues. In addition, our physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists treat balance, vertigo, vestibular (inner ear), confusion, head and neck pain, ringing in the ears, and post-concussion disorders and related symptoms.

Contact Us

If you feel you would benefit from balance therapy, talk with your doctor about a referral. For more information, call 816.691.1795.