Week 2

Today i was asked to conduct a balance assessement on patient g. Patient G had a fall 2/12 ago. She has current back pain and is very afraid of ambulating without close supervision. I commenced my assessment with sitting balance. My patient was comfortable closing her eyes and reaching out of her BOS. I then had a look at her reaching whilst sitting on a wobble board. Patient g had difficulties with her righting reactions on the wobble board. i then began my standing balance assessment... EO/EC was good, my patient was comfortable and stable with side stepping however had difficulties with stepping forwards and backwards. Based upon this assessment i decided to focus my balance treatment on changing the surface and weight transference. I will begin my surface change with the foam matt, then progress it to grass and then the wobble board.