This month’s column invokes several previous columns, one about medications and the other about knowing if we know what we don’t know. A recent medical journal article concluded that falls in...
Finding balance and lighting the way
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Dec 23, 2016
Most of our patients over 80 have vestibular deficits, and that’s why they fall.
Sometimes a fall is more than a fall
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Mar 05, 2024
Physical therapists have a tool belt loaded with testing and instrumentation used to determine fall risk. Some are simple and take a few seconds, some are complex and extremely expensive. We have...