Balance and coordination?
Surprisingly challenges to balance and coordination challenges can look different at different ages, and even the youngest can have a tough time controlling their movement. These are some examples of what balance and coordination issues look like by age:
- Infants: Delays in tummy time, sitting, crawling, standing and walking
- Toddlers/School Age Children: Accident prone. It can also look like refusal, avoidance, or acting out against activity suggestions.
- Teen/Adult: Clumsy, opting out of movement-based activities and social settings
- Adult/Older Adult: Opting out of joining in, anxiety over activity details with navigating parking, nighttime, distances, stairs, inclines, descents are too challenging.
What?
We typically find there are specific ways your balance is compromised, and it is often related to an injury, accident, surgery, or aspect of birth.
How?
Our micromovement assessment quickly surfaces where the cause of the problem is. Our goal for balance challenges is safety. We keep our assessment within your comfort tolerance for risk.
What do we look for?
There are four key aspects we look for to understand how your body and sensory systems automatically control balance to keep you safe, as you transition and move about your day.
- How your body automatically controls balance moving forward and back
- How your body automatically controls balance moving side-to-side
- How your body automatically controls balance turning to the right and left
- How does your vestibular system integrate with the visual system for balance control
Why does this matter?
Often your balance and coordination challenges are linked to one specific aspect of control. By narrowing down the details, we can more quickly identify the most meaningful aspect of intervention to support, so you feel more confident moving.
By recognizing the unique aspect of poor balance control Bridging can specifically support your muscles and guide them to work together again. You will have better balance from the first session forward. Often it takes 2-3 sessions to work through a full range of real-life muscle relationships which still make you nervous. For children, a tune-up is often needed as their physical size changes.
Balance and coordination?
Surprisingly challenges to balance and coordination challenges can look different at different ages, and even the youngest can have a tough time controlling their movement. These are some examples of what balance and coordination issues look like by age:
We typically find there are specific ways your balance is compromised, and it is often related to an injury, accident, surgery, or aspect of birth.
Our micromovement assessment quickly surfaces where the cause of the problem is. Our goal for balance challenges is safety. We keep our assessment within your comfort tolerance for risk.
There are four key aspects we look for to understand how your body and sensory systems automatically control balance to keep you safe, as you transition and move about your day.
- How your body automatically controls balance moving forward and back
- How your body automatically controls balance moving side-to-side
- How your body automatically controls balance turning to the right and left
- How does your vestibular system integrate with the visual system for balance control
Often your balance and coordination challenges are linked to one specific aspect of control. By narrowing down the details, we can more quickly identify the most meaningful aspect of intervention to support, so you feel more confident moving.
By recognizing the unique aspect of poor balance control Bridging can specifically support your muscles and guide them to work together again. You will have better balance from the first session forward. Often it takes 2-3 sessions to work through a full range of real-life muscle relationships which still make you nervous. For children, a tune-up is often needed as their physical size changes.