Vestibular
Our Approach:
+ One on one direct care
with your physical therapist
+ Individualized treatment
to reduce your dizziness
+ Evidence based
Fall Risk Assessment
Our Therapy Program
React Physical Therapy’s vestibular rehabilitation therapy program offers a comprehensive approach to evaluating and treating patients with complaints of dizziness, vertigo, motion sensitivity, instability, and a history of falling. Symptoms due to vestibular disorders or age-related loss of balance can diminish the quality of life and can make simple daily tasks very difficult and unsafe to perform. This often leads individuals to live a sedentary lifestyle or have to modify basic tasks such as getting into and out of bed. Living a less active lifestyle may also lead to future problems such as loss in muscle strength and stamina creating a vicious cycle of reduced activity and poor quality of life.
Our goal of therapy is to reverse this cycle by discovering the exact source of your dysfunction and creating a customized rehabilitation program focused on reducing your symptoms, improving your stability, and getting you to move again with confidence.
What is Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy?
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) is a specialized form of physical therapy that uses specific exercises to improve the efficiency of your vestibular and central nervous system. Abnormal functioning in parts of your brain such as your cerebellum, inner ear, or visual cortex may lead to dizziness or instability.
Our exercises work by either enhancing existing neural mechanisms in the brain or teaching you to learn how to use new parts of your nervous system to complete a task due to a concept called neuroplasticity. Theoretical concepts often used in therapy are adaptation, substitution, compensation, habituation. Which particular strategy used is individually dependent and will be determined by your therapist and how you are progressing in your therapy. Exercises may involve balance training focusing on basic day-to-day tasks that predispose someone to fall like transitioning from sitting to standing to complex balance training such as walking on uneven surfaces with your eyes closed. Exercises also often involve head movements and visual retraining which are essential in stimulating and retraining the vestibular system and your eye’s ability to focus on a specific target. This training will allow for improved postural strategies and awareness of where you are in space so you can move around in all different environments without feeling dizzy or feeling fearful or falling.
From Pain to Play
General Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy Services
- Balance Training
- Post-concussion Recovery
- Gait training
- Fall prevention
All our React physical therapists are trained to identify and treat general vestibular issues and can refer you as needed. Therapy sessions are one on one and exercises are based on each individual’s deficits.
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