5 Major Systems of the Body that Contribute to Balance
Visual System
Hearing System
Peripheral Nervous System
Central Nervous System
Musculoskeletal System
Fall Prevention / Balance Therapy
Part of our treatment plan at MoveWell includes the use of our newly developed ProBalance360 and Vestibular Neuropathway Therapy. These revolutionary technologies allow us to evaluate key balance metrics and use that data to create a customized therapy plan. Our program also includes quick feet/agility training and strength training. This combination of systems focuses on balance and fall prevention therapy, which involves strengthening the musculoskeletal system and neurological pathways to improve overall balance, coordination and stability.
60-Minute Visit Includes:
- Vestibular Neuropathway Therapy
- Balance Plate Training
- Quick-feet Training
- Strength Training
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Statistics on Risk of Falling - Vestibular Rehabilitation
- According to the WHO, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury-based deaths worldwide
- Research done by the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2022 found that a person's ability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds decreases progressively as age increases. People over the age of 85 are 11 x more likely to be unable to balance on one leg for 10 seconds with their eyes open compared to those 20 years younger.
- The inability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds with eyes open is directly associated to age, a high waist-height ratio and the presence of type 2 diabetes (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2022)
- Patients with radiculopathy have a decreased ability to sense information from their peripheral nervous system, communicate it with their brain, and send messaging to their muscles to regulate for a loss of balance. (Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020)
- Good balance requires coordination of several parts of body: CNS, inner ear (vestibular system), eyes (vision), muscles (MSK), bones and joints (Harvard study on balance)
- Decreased sensitivity of muscle spindles as we age - therefore decreased ability to sense the stretch that occurs in muscles (when we fall - our muscles are stretched until we are able to contract them to maintain our balance) - decreased ability to adapt to environment (Neuroscience Letters. 1995)
- This concern is being exacerbated by the increasing elderly population, in which people aged 60 years and over are expected to account for 20% of the world's population by 2050.
