So Vestibular therapy is basically balance and vision exercise?
My chiropractic neurologist has been doing various balance exercises with me like one foot in front of the other arms crossed and eyes closed to check on my my balance. Before he does this he asks me to do a series of eye exercises where my eyes follow his finger to various places and then he will move his finger quickly and i have to shoot my eyes to his finger quickly. He will ask me to spread my fingers wide and he will try to push them in and then hold my arms up one at a time and try to push them down. Then I need to go home and do an eye exercise where I will follow my finger in a diagonal peripheral and then quickly shoot my glance to the opposite side and I will do this exercise on one foot and then the other. Another exercise he told me to do is stand stand one food in front of the other and my left arm will be doing figure eights in front of me.
My one post concussion symptoms are chornic headaches. I'm not really too sure what these exercises are doing and how they will benefit me?
Thank you for your feedback.
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Originally Posted by Su seb
I read your post yesterday but didn't respond becca use I have difficulty writing well.
I went to dizzy and balance therapy and found it extremely helpful. Part of it was that I love my therapist. My symptoms were horrible a few months ago and now they are 90percent better, which makes life much easier. It took me eight weeks of therapy to get better.
I still go now but we are working on vision. I can't get in to see a specialist til late July.
I am also type a. My advise to you is to not try to do too much too soon. They would tell me to do thirty reps , 3 sets. So I would think, I can do twice that! And then I would get sick! You need to take things very slowly. Everyone would ask what my therapy was. And I would have to say that this week I am trying to stand in a corner and move my head without falling over. And they would say really, that's all? Yes, it's really hard. Then I rest and try to walk across the room while moving my head. Then I rest again.
But I really noticed the gradual improvement.
And luckily my therapist knew more about concussions than anyone that I had met and she had plent of time to talk to me.
Su seb
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