Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Balance
- State of equilibrium, maintaining
COG, and upright posture
- Made up of somatosensory,
visual, and vestibular
- Somatosensory
- Located in joints, skin,
muscles, and ligaments
- Proprioceptive info about
length, tension, pain,
pressure, and joint
positioning
- How do we
assess?
- Can be with eyes open versus
close but mainly focuses on
change of surface
- What do we look out
for?
- Unsteadiness due to fear of falling or
lack of postural strategies
- Visual
- Using vision to determine motion
of objects, oneself in the
environment, orientation, and
postural movement
- Children rely on this
heavily
- How do you assess?
- In a quiet standing position
with eyes open versus close
- What do we look out for?
- Hemianopsia, pursuits,
saccades, double vision,
and gaze control
- Vestibualr
- Provides feed back to CNS on
relation of head with gravity
- semicircular canals
filled with
endolymph (fluid)
- Response based
on this fluid in the
head
- Based on acceleration/deceleration
- How do we assess?
- DixHallpike maneuver, bithermal
caloric testing, head thrust sign, and
vestibuloocular reflex test
- What do we look out for?
- Feeling of fear, dizziness, feeling of nausea