Balance Exercises

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• Virtual reality systems to accommodate the need for ‘whole body balance’ treatment –WiiFit balance exercises, ball-head activities, eye tracking activities
• Eye-head coordination
  a. Moving the eye balls with eyes open and shut – up/down, left & right – 7 reps
  b. visual tracking tasks with the head still (see fig 11)
  c. gaze stability exercises whilst moving the head slowly and later progression to rapid movements – maintain fixed eyes on a target
  d. keeping the gaze stability whilst moving in phase with the head into sitting, standing and walking
  e. moving the trunk or varying the surface (eg soft) whilst maintaining the gaze on a fixed target (see fig 12 below)
• Balance exercises
  a. Walking with saggital (fwd/bkwd) and transverse (rotation) plane movements of the head and neck
  b. Walking a distance and turning rapidly and walking back
  c. Standing on a balance board making various head movements progressing to tracking a moving object
  d. Walking on a treadmill detecting movements in the periphery without looking
  e. Walking blindfolded
• Shock absorbing through the use of a trampoline in standing
• Task dependent exercises
  Repeat the movement that makes one dizzy
• General endurance exercise
  Cardiovascular training

Brandt Daroff, sitting to supine to side lying left and right with head angled upward about ½ way : “like looking at someone standing 2metres away from you and you look at them all the time

• 3 sets per day for 2 weeks
• 1 repetition takes 2minutes, 3secs in each position, repeat 5 times (total 10minutes)

Hallpike-Dix: Home Epley Manoeuvre : hold each supine position for 30secs and the sitting position for 1minute, repeat 3 times just before sleeping. Total 2 1/2minutes x 3 = 7 ½ minutes