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What have you done to improve balance?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Jul 30 1:52pm | Replies (72)Comment receiving replies
I would agree, as well. My balance is about the same now as it was a year ago. I have had PT specifically for balance, which may have helped more if I had done the exercises every single day. I do exercises in the pool each day. I am now seeing a PT who does dry needling. After six weekly visits at $100/pop I can't tell much difference.... so I doubt I will continue that. I guess the thing that has helped the most is to just try and keep moving everyday and not become too sedentary. The AFOs also help with balance for me.... but I still stumble or fall on occasion. Life is certainly different than a few years ago! Best wishes! MikeH
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@domiha Hi Mike - glad to hear your balance is not getting worse in the past year and the AFO's are helping out with balance. But a stumble or fall can be a little dangerous. I have not fallen since the summer of 2023, and that one was a bad one. I now pay closer attention to where my feet are like not tangled around the leg of a kitchen chair when I walk. And I am careful to make sure my feet are pointing towards the direction in which I'm heading. It's a process of thinking where my size 14 feet are and since paying closer attention, I've had no falls. You hit the nail on the head; life is different, and we will continue to change, and we need to make adjustments along this way. Since my wife passed away in Feb of this year, now living alone, I am VERY careful, and I hope you are as well. Stay safe and keep moving. Ed
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Good morning, Mike
You say, "I have had PT … which may have helped more if I had done the exercises every single day." What? You mean we're birds of a feather? One of a kind? LOL Every morning I say to myself, "OK, Ray, today you're going to do all of the exercises you've been given to do." Then, at day's end, I say, "OK, Ray, tomorrow's going to be different. Tomorrow you're going to do all of the exercises you've been given to do." Thanks for being honest, Mike. It's good to know I'm not alone.
You say, too, that you still stumble or fall on occasion. Mmm, that, too. I used to be a hopeless braggart, answering whenever one of my doctors would ask the always-asked question, "Have you fallen lately?" I'd answer: "Me? No! I haven't fallen in years! Are you kidding? Ha!" Well … last Wednesday, I fell. The worst kind of falling: in public! I'd met a friend for coffee at a local coffee shop, and when we'd been getting up to go, I turned too abruptly and WHOOPS! Thud! Down I went, having tripped over nothing but my stupid inattention. I'm now practicing for the next time a doctor asks if I've fallen lately: "Fallen? Oh, well … fallen? You mean like fallen 'to the ground'? Well, er … there was this one time, at a coffee shop … I, er … well, you see, I fell. I'm sorry," (Sorry? Why on earth would I be saying, "I'm sorry"? What weird creature we are. LOL)
Cheers!
Ray