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Balance |
Improving balance
- Recently, balance training has been focusing more on functional, repetitive, task-specific training
- What are the patient’s goals? Focus on what they would like to achieve
- Goals should be meaningful, challenging but achievable
- Plan tasks that the patient will need to be able to perform in their daily lives such as walking to the shop whilst carrying a grocery bag or reaching into a cupboard
Assisting a patient with balance problems
Assess balance confidence ( i.e Activities-specific balance confidence scale)
If appropriate encourage the patient to:
- Use night lights in bedrooms, bathrooms and hallways
- Sit on a bench or stool in the shower
- Use rails on stairs and in the bathroom
- Store frequently used items at waist level
- Use a cordless phone that is within easy reach
- Consider a personal alarm
- Consider the position of furniture and how it may be re-arranged
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