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Balance disorders can be treated with integrative therapy

Friday 2nd December 2011

People with balance disorders can benefit from integrative rehabilitation regimes that significantly help those in occupational therapy jobs to treat the problem.

In the latest issue of the NeuroRehabilitation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, it describes that scientists in San Diego have found a series of vestibular rehabilitation is significantly helping physiotherapists and physicians help treat the condition.

The team at the institution found that if the problem was not just confined to a particular area of treatment then it could be tackled better.

Scientists believed that if the disorder was spread out across a number of fields and was helped by a team with expertise in the "physical, neurological, perceptual, and psychiatric features of balance disorders" it could be treated much better.

Michael E. Hoffer, MD, FACS, of the Spatial Orientation Centre in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Naval Medical Centre San Diego said: "A development has been the spread of specialised training in the theory and practice of vestibular rehabilitation in physical therapy and allied health degree programs around the world. It is safe to say, at this point, vestibular rehabilitation is recognised as one of the most valuable techniques in treating patients with balance disorders."

written by Martin Lambert