Balance or gait disorders are very disruptive conditions that can affect how you stand or walk, and they can occur for a variety of reasons. Typically they are the result of an underlying musculoskeletal or neurological disorder that can cause dizziness, unsteadiness and pain across your hips, knees, feet and other joints.

Tailor-Made Physical Therapy can relieve your symptoms and even restore your balance through a personalized treatment plan for these common conditions:

Difficulty Walking – An unexpected injury may weaken your muscles and cause balance issues. A gait disorder often results from a neuromuscular or neurological condition. Both need therapy to restore strength and balance. 

Weakness – Physical therapy can provide the strengthening exercises that restore balance and build the muscles necessary to move around safely.

Vertigo/Vestibular System – By focusing on your vision, nerves, muscles and vestibular system, physical therapy can retrain you on balance techniques, mitigate dizziness and restore your overall motion and independence.

BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) – Issues with balance result when calcium debris breaks off in the inner ears and causes spinning sensations and balance disruptions. Physical therapy treats the patient with specific exercises to counter this issue.

RELATED TREATMENTS:

• Neuromuscular condition and reeducation getting the system to function that has the dysfunction and focus on impairments that are causing the balance issues, along with Therapeutic Activities to strengthen the core stabilizers of the body in a functional position, ie squatting, stepping up/down, and reaching forward.