A 30 Second Self-Test For Balance • Have you ever lost your footing while walking causing you to stagger? • When you go shopping, do you feel more secure holding onto a shopping cart? • Or have you ever gotten up in the middle of the night stumbling in the dark to the bathroom only to catch yourself from falling by grabbing the furniture?
30 Second Self-Test for Balance 1. Stand on a hard floor near a table or countertop for support. 2. Bend one knee and lift the foot–if you’re left- handed, stand on your left leg and lift the right foot; do the opposite if you’re right-handed. You don’t need to lift it high, just enough to keep it off the floor. 3. Now without holding onto anything slowly count the number of seconds you can hold that position without putting your foot back down. 4. Repeat the test 3 times, and then add up your total time and divide it by 3 to find your average balance time (for example, if test 1 was 4 seconds, test 2 was 8 seconds, and test 3 was 6 seconds, you’d add up 4, 8, and 6 to get 18. Divide by 3, and your average balance time is 6 seconds).
What it means: If you could not complete this test without being unsteady, you likely are at risk of falling.
Your next step is to see what is causing your loss of balance & unsteadiness and reserve your spot at our past patient only Balance & Dizziness Workshop.
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