Course Description:

As the population ages, there is decline in balance and postural control and thus the increase in falls. To address this the traditional approach is practice balance exercise on various surfaces and with rehab tasks that involve perturbation activities to stimulate and facilitate the human body’s systems of balance: vestibular, vision, and mechanoreceptors. This course will enhance the attendee’s knowledge base by providing evidence-based research on balance to augment what is currently mostly done anecdotally. This course is also designed to excite the attendee in first knowing “what’s inside the box” before they can look “outside the box,” and get out of the common rut of clinical practice of habit and routine and jazz up their geriatric populations balance training programs for fall prevention.