If you are experiencing sudden balance problems or extreme dizziness
without a diagnosed cause, contact your doctor immediately.
If you have been diagnosed with chronic balance and dizziness problems, your doctor may refer you to a physical therapist for treatment. At Munger Physical Therapy, we help many people who suffer from balance struggles or experience dizziness. Our goal is to provide you with customized solutions that allow for more stability, better balance, and a reduced fall risk.
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Signs of Balance or Dizziness Problems
When a person is off-balance or dizzy, they can sometimes learn to compensate for their limitations, especially if they have been struggling for some time, but the risks remain. Balance and dizziness issues can be caused by many sources, like vertigo, gait imbalance, or muscle weakness. If you experience any of the following difficulties, physical therapy may be a solution:
- Feel unsafe when walking.
- Hold onto furniture when walking in your home.
- Difficulty stepping up on a curb.
- More confident behind a grocery cart.
- Dizzy when moving from sitting to standing.
- Dizzy when rolling in bed or getting up from lying down.
- Dizzy when bending over or after standing back up.
Through the power of physical therapy, we strive to help our patients with all causes of instability and work with your doctors as needed to provide appropriate care for your condition. Some balance and dizziness complications require targeted medical care first, like anemia, circulation issues, medication side effects, blood pressure drop, neurological issues, or nerve damage.
Request an AppointmentRegain Confidence and Stability with Physical Therapy
When the movements you could once do confidently have been limited because of dizziness or balance issues, it’s natural to want to feel strong and whole. Through customized physical therapy, it is possible to significantly improve the body’s functions and quality of life.
At Munger PT, we employ a variety of treatments depending on your diagnosis, current abilities and limitations, chronic conditions, or temporary medical struggles. These services may include:
- Testing for and treating vertigo. We work to reposition the inner ear to minimize vertigo and the difficult dizziness and balance side effects.
- Testing balance in all positions. By training the eyes and brain to work together and adapt, visual disturbances during movement can be reduced.
- Beginning balance training. Balance retraining exercises are designed to improve stability while you are standing or walking on changing surfaces.
- Strength program. Balance requires good posture and strong muscles and a strength program is designed to suit your body’s abilities and needs.
- Gait training. This approach improves balance, mobility, coordination, and walking patterns, aiming to restore an efficient gait so your body can move safely and confidently.
- Improve walking. From navigating stairs to low-light environments, different terrains to crowded space, functional physical therapy training can improve walking in all locations and circumstances.
Benefits of Physical Therapy for Balance Problems
Our goal is to help you feel better, consistently improve what isn’t working right, and help you regain strength and power. Individualized programs are developed based on the severity of your symptoms and their underlying cause, often over a series of weeks or months with home exercises recommended to support recovery. Physical therapy can offer the following benefits:
- Reduce dizziness and vertigo symptoms.
- Decrease fall risk.
- Improve balance.
- Enhance mobility.
- Boost independence.
- Support recovery from imbalances.
Physical therapy retrains the body and the brain to restore coordination, often by addressing the inner ear, vision, muscles, and joints to improve stability. Even age-related balance issues and side effects of a concussion can be treated with the right physical therapies.
Start Feeling Better TodayGet Physical Therapy from Munger PT for Balance / Dizziness Problems
Contact Munger PT to get help with balance or dizziness struggles. You can feel better, move better, and live confidently with bodily limitations when you have supportive, targeted physical therapy for your needs. Schedule a consultation today.
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