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Disequilibrium of Aging Treatments
Our multispecialty team helps you manage and improve disequilibrium of aging. We understand that age-related dizziness can impact your balance and confidence. These changes can keep you from doing the activities you enjoy and put you at risk for falling. Our highly trained providers create a treatment plan to help you feel steadier and safer.
- Specialized expertise in diagnosing and treating all causes of disequilibrium of aging (multifactorial imbalance).
- Pioneering treatments that require unique knowledge and skill, including nonsurgical and surgical options.
- A collaborative team of vestibular balance specialists who work with other experts as needed to provide complete, compassionate care.
- Clinical trials that offer eligible people earlier access to the latest treatments for vestibular balance disorders.
- Comprehensive support services that give you the medical, emotional, and spiritual help you need to cope with severe loss of balance with age.
- Ease of access to screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care.
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Our specialists treat the root causes of multifactorial imbalance. We offer therapies to improve your balance, vision, and bodily awareness. Treatment also addresses any underlying diseases or risk factors that increase your risk of dizziness with age. Our goal is to help you maintain your independence.
We may recommend some changes to your everyday life to improve your body’s overall health. For example, we help you find ways to stay active and get the right nutrition in your diet. We may suggest changes to your home to reduce your risk of falling and keep you safe.
Assistive devices can also help you manage disequilibrium. Depending on the severity of dizziness, you may want to use a walking stick, walker, or wheelchair.
Balance therapy improves your balance, confidence, and safety. Specialized physical therapists guide you through an exercise program tailored to your symptoms.
These exercises can ease your symptoms by strengthening your balance and coordination. Your physical therapist may have you do:
- Balance retraining to help you adapt to multifactorial imbalance and feel steadier
- Habituation exercises, which teach your brain to ignore dizziness by exposing you to motions that typically cause you to feel dizzy
- Posture training to practice standing and sitting
- Stretching exercises to increase your flexibility
- Vision stability exercises to help you control your eye movements
- Walking exercises to practice keeping your balance
You may need medications to treat underlying conditions that lead to disequilibrium. For example, we help manage diabetes to prevent peripheral neuropathy or vision problems. For long-term cerebrovascular disease, we may recommend medication to improve blood flow to the brain.
Treating these causes helps decrease dizziness and symptoms of disequilibrium. You and your doctor figure out what medications work well for you and cause minimal side effects.
Your doctor may also identify current medications you take that might impact your balance. You may need to stop medications that cause side effects of disequilibrium, dizziness, or imbalance.
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To request an appointment with a specialist, call 650-723-5281.