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BALANCE REHABILITATION
SENSORY PROBLEM
Sensory problem may be due to 1 vestibular:trauma.degenerative
2 proprioceptive:brain/spcd injury
3 visual
Imbalance due to sensory problems should be treated by facilitation of damaged system and / or encouragement of remaining system
That is :
STANDING EYES CLOSED ON FIRM SURFACE
SHAKING HEAD DURING WALKING
NARROW BASE STANDING
TANDEM WALKING
STANDING ON ROACKER BOARD
WALKING ON ROUGH TERRAIN OR STAIRS
STRATEGY SELECTION
In this pts are unable to select proper ankle hip or stepping strategies in response to environmental demands. eg: parkinsonism. The timing, sequencing ,amplitude of strategies all appear normal. but pt is unable to isolate hip and ankle movement.
It is......

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