How Chiropractic Treatment Can Help Your Balance Problems
Good balance is absolutely necessary for an individual to be able to regulate and preserve body position while mobile or staying still. Good balance helps someone to walk without staggering, arise from a sitting position without falling, and to climb stairs without stumbling.
Nearly 9 percent of adults, age 65 and older, disclose having problems with balance. Good balance is vital in helping an older person to stay independent, and perform daily chores and activities. Quite a few older individuals, however, undergo dizziness, “wooziness,” and challenges with balance.
The experience by some people that they, themselves, or the things around them are spinning is commonly referred to as “vertigo.” About 40 percent of individuals in the U.S. will experience dizziness that is severe enough to go seek out a health professional. And, among older adults, falls are the most widespread cause of serious injury and deaths.
Balance and Inner Ear Challenges
There are many types of balance disorders. Three customary types are benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, labyrinthitis, and Meniere’s disease. Of these three, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most prevalent. Its symptoms encompass a brief, intense experience of vertigo with a change in head position, when rolling over to the left or right in bed or when getting out of bed, or when looking up for something on a high shelf. This problem is more likely to happen in people 60 and older, but it can also take place in younger adults.
The reasons for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo are varied. It may be created by an inner ear infection, head injury, or simply aging. Often times a simple Epleys procedure can correct the condition, though it can be associated with other disease processes. Your Chiropractor has many years of experience in this procedure.
Labyrinthitis is an infection or iinflammation of the inner ear that produces dizziness and loss of balance. It affects adults of any age and the cause is currently undiscovered.
Ménière’s disease is a balance disorder that creates vertigo, hearing loss inconsistent, tinnitus (ringing or roaring in the ears), and a “full feeling” in the ear.
Though older individuals are more likely to experience balance disorders, age is not the only reason these problems take place. Depending on the cause of the balance disorder, care will vary. Sometimes, there’s a simple solution to balance disorders, such as simple exercises for vestibular rehab. A chiropractor is well-educated in analyzing and treating a number of balance problems. Call a health care professional, such as your Chiropractor, if you have experienced, or are currently experiencing, dizziness, vertigo, or other problems with balance.
While some balance disorders are created by challenges in the inner ear, other disorders may be associated with another area of the body, such as the brain or the heart. Head injury, stroke, certain medicines, circulation problems, upper respiratory infections and other viral infections, stress, fatigue, smoking, alcohol use, high or low blood pressure, and heart disease are all components that, in addition to aging and ear infection, may cause balance disorders.
Balance disorders caused by high blood pressure can normally be managed by less sodium intake,maintaining a healthy weight, and exercise. To assist in making the symptoms of dizziness less intense, most often eating low-salt or salt-free foods, and avoiding caffeine and alcohol, will help.
Balance disorders are serious. It is the number one cause of falls and fall-related injuries in older people. It is crucial to have a possible balance disorder analysed and treated as soon as possible.
If you can answer “yes” to any of the following questions, you should discuss the symptom(s) with your chiropractor:
• Do you have the feeling of being “unsteady?”
• Does the room seem to spin around you?
• Is there ever a time when you feel as if you are moving when you know you are standing still?
• Do you lose your balance and/or fall?
• Do you feel as if you are falling?
• Does your vision ever become “blurred?”
• Do you ever feel disoriented, or lose a sense of time, place or identify?
Don’t wait until it’s too late! Call your chiropractor today.
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