Brain-Based Exercises for Balance Enhancement: You might ask, how do we create exercises that impact the brain? These exercises use our senses: touch, smell, sight, sound, taste, and the inner ear in specific patterns to get the desired outcome. This approach of combining exercises builds better neural pathways to influence balance. One of the best […]
RxFunction’s walk2wellness study has added Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland as its fifth site for its ongoing clinical trial of its Walkasins Lower Limb Sensory Neuroprosthesis. The study is designed to assess Walkasins’ use on peripheral neuropathy patients at high-fall risk. Patients may now enroll at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, as well as other study […]
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Falls are the most common cause of injury in elderly adults (age 65 and older). As many as one third of elderly adults fall each year and the risk of falling triples if you have a neurologic disorder like peripheral neuropathy. Twenty to thirty percent of older people who fall, suffer moderate to severe injuries, […]
Falling is no laughing matter. Patients with Parkinson’s disease, peripheral neuropathy, lower extremity weakness, sensory loss, and substantial vision loss have a higher risk of falling. Good balance requires reliable sensory input from an individual’s vision, vestibular system (the balance system of the inner ear), and proprioceptors (sensors of position and movement in the feet […]
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