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Environmental Tilt (Visual Allesthesia)
Published in Alexander R. Toftness, Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury, 2023
The vestibular sense is your sense of balance, and it is primarily sensed by structures in your inner ear. Some of these structures are sensitive to the rotation of your head because they are full of fluid that sloshes around, and others are sensitive to gravity because they contain calcium crystals that you can sense being pulled in various directions (Hain, 2007). When your sense of balance goes wrong, the consequences are unsettling (see Vertigo).
Lifestyle and Diet
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Balance exercise is recommended especially for the elderly. This type of exercise is supple and easy to do. Having good balance is important for many everyday activities, such as going up and down stairs. Improving your balance makes you feel steadier on your feet and helps prevent falls, a common problem in older people (73). When we get older, our vision, our inner ear, and our leg muscles and joints tend to break down. Training balance regularly can help prevent and reverse these losses (73). Many senior centers and gyms offer balance-focused exercise classes such as tai chi or yoga. It is never too early to start this type of exercise, even if you feel you do not have balance problems (73). You can also go to a physical therapist, who can determine your current balance abilities and prescribe specific exercises to target your areas of weakness. Typical balance exercises include standing on one foot, walking heel to toe, tai chi, or yoga. The physical therapist may also have you focus on joint flexibility, walking on uneven surfaces, and strengthening leg muscles with exercises such as squats and leg lifts. Get the proper training before attempting any of these exercises at home (75).
Introduction
Published in Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp, Relational Care, 2022
Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp
Working with chronically and critically ill Patients is physically, mentally, and spiritually exhausting. Maintaining a healthy balance is vital. Relational Care offers resources and tools to prevent compassion fatigue and burnout.
Cut-off values and sub-items of the Berg Balance Scale for walking-aid use in hospitalized older adults with a hip fracture: a retrospective analysis
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2023
Sota Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Miyata, Shuntaro Tamura, Ren Takeda, Hiroki Iwamoto
The ability to balance is necessary for walking and other activities, and it is important for preventing falls. There is no gold-standard scale for measuring balance, but the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) is recommended for use in adults aged ≥ 18 years because of its well-validated and widespread use in research and clinical settings and its translation into several languages (Sibley et al., 2015). A difference in BBS scores among older adults has been reported to depend on the use of a walking aid (Berg, Wood-Dauphine, Williams, and Gayton, 1989; Bogle Thorbahn and Newton, 1996). Stevenson et al. (2010) reported the threshold BBS cutoff score of 49 points for walking without any aid and 43 points for walking without a walker with four wheels, pivoting front wheels, hand brakes, and a basket or seat. Thus, several studies have shown that there is an association between the use of walking aids and balance ability in older adults.
Vestibular evoked potential response in adults with type 1 diabetes
Published in Hearing, Balance and Communication, 2023
Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, Dalia Fahim Mohammed Fahim
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common metabolic disease. Data from large epidemiological studies estimated that 1,106,500 people aged 0–19 years have type 1 diabetes (T1D) worldwide and its incidence is approximately 132,600 newly diagnosed cases per year [1]. Clinical studies have reported associations between vestibular and/or auditory systems dysfunctions and DM [2–8]. The vestibular system has a major role in maintaining balance in both static and dynamic conditions. Information from the vestibular end organs and their central pathways allows for the maintenance of gaze stability via the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and postural stability via the vestibulo-spinal reflexes [8]. DM can disturb the peripheral and/or central vestibular systems [2–9]. Studies also showed that vestibular dysfunction manifestations (as unsteadiness) may independently induce balance disorders even after adjusting for diabetic neuropathy or retinopathy [10], common complications of DM. In patients with DM, aggravated manifestations (as unsteadiness, dizziness, vertigo, etc) may be encountered in subjects with impaired vision (due to retinopathy) or proprioception (due to peripheral neuropathy) [9–11].
The correlation between physical and emotional stabilities: a cross-sectional observational preliminary study
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Michal Elboim-Gabyzon, Michal Pitluk, Einat Shuper Engelhard
Balance is defined as the ability to maintain the body's centre of mass within the limits of the base of support [1]. Maintaining one’s balance is necessary for all daily functional tasks, particularly those involving postural stability and gait. Both postural stability and gait pattern are affected by an individual’s emotional and psychological state [2–4]. For example, depression significantly affects the gait pattern in naturalistic, everyday life settings [5], and the low mood was demonstrated to alter balance performance in healthy male subjects [6]. Furthermore, physical stability during functional tasks, even those which may be considered automatic, requires some degree of emotional and cognitive attention [7–12]. Accordingly, posture control entails a dynamic interplay between self-awareness, attention allocation, and motor processes during active movement [13].