Does Your Balance Need Work?
Living with vertigo or dizziness restricts your daily activities and makes it difficult to do even simple tasks without feeling weary. Do you ever feel wobbly or off-balance? Vestibular therapy may be helpful!
To help you regulate your equilibrium and balance, our physical therapists at Forza Physiotherapy and Wellness in San Antonio, TX provide some of the most effective vestibular therapy services. To learn more, make an appointment with our clinic today!
What Increases Your Risk Of Falling?
Have you been feeling dizzy? Dizziness is a term used to describe everything from feeling faint or lightheaded to feeling weak or unsteady. Another common term you may have heard before is vertigo. This is the sense that you or your surroundings are spinning. Both of these issues affect your balance and ability to stay standing still and upright.
If you are always dizzy, you should get your condition checked! Not doing so puts you at risk for falls, which can result in serious injury.
Some people have a higher risk of falling than others. Certain risk factors include:
- Fatigue
- Vertigo or dizziness
- Being female
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Previous history of falls
- Living a sedentary life
- Overall poor health
- Heart disease
- Advanced age
- Problems with vision
- Problems with walking or stayin balanced
- Diabetes
- Previous stroke or heart attack
- Arthritis or alternative joint pain
Our dedicated physical therapists at Forza Physiotherapy and Wellness in San Antonio, TX will review your medical history to assess any risk factors you may have and then explain what these factors mean and how you can lower your risk. Following that, they will conduct a thorough physical examination to determine the best treatment plan for you.
What Does Forza Physiotherapy and Wellness Offer?
Your initial physical examination at Forza Physiotherapy and Wellness in San Antonio, TX may include vision exams, resting, and active heart rate checks, gait, balance, range of motion, and strength exams. Based on the results of these exams, our physical therapist will build you a unique treatment plan based on the findings of this exam.
Some common forms of physical therapy fall prevention treatment include:
Balance training
This part of your treatment plan may require you to perform specific balance-based exercises, such as standing on one leg or maintaining your balance while performing an intellectually demanding task (such as reciting the alphabet or reading a page from a book.)
Pain management
Your treatment plan will address any pain you are experiencing as soon as possible.
Walking and moving programs
This section of your treatment plan focuses on restoring your normal physical function when walking and/or moving. You might be asked to do things like walk in a circle or complete an obstacle course by our physical therapist.
Endurance training
Our physical therapist will design an aerobic training program for you, gradually increasing the length of your sessions as your stamina improves.
Strength training
Our physical therapist will create a strength training program for you that will target particular muscle groups that require strengthening. This will help you improve your balance when standing and walking, as well as your ability to recover from a fall.
Are You Ready To Find Stability Again?
If you have been looking for San Antonio, TX vestibular therapy services, your search is finally over. There is no reason for you to remain unbalanced or to continue saying “no” to activities you enjoy because you are afraid of falling.
Fight the fall and get back up on your feet. If you are ready to improve your balance and lower your risk of a fall-related injury, contact Forza Physiotherapy and Wellness to request an appointment and get started today!