keeping your balance

Keeping Your Balance

Balance is very important for people with Osteoporosis. Your eyes,ears,muscles and joints all play an important role in maintaining your balance and preventing broken bones.Medical conditions and medicines can also affect balance and your risk of falling.Let's take a look at these and see how you might be able to reduce your chances of falling.

Ear Hearing Balance

changes in hearing happen as you age. Our ears contains middle ear, semicircular canals lined with Hair like structures, fluid and crystals. This system can give us information on our head and body movements to help us maintain our balance.

Medication and some illnesses can affect middle-ear function. Sometimes these problems are associated with ringing in the ear or a sensation of the room spinning( vertigo). consult your doctor if you are having any of the problems or problems with balance. Sometimes your doctor or physical therapist can reposition the crystals in your ear and significantly improve your balance.