| type="text/javascript"> ch_client = "articlealley"; | | | | which is markedly common in the elderly, increased |
| ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 590; ch_height = 250; | | | | reliance on the vestibular labyrinthine system |
| ch_non_contextual = 4; ch_noborders = 1; | | | | becomes necessitated. If there is any problem with |
| ch_vertical ="premium"; ch_sid = "590x250 Article | | | | this system whatsoever, a fall is imminent. We can |
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| th)); if ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) { | | | | office, in fact, we do it free as a community service. |
| ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; } Falls actually | | | | Accidents are endemic and a leading cause of |
| occur for many reasons. Falls occur simply out of | | | | accidental injury and accidental death. For this reason, |
| shear accident. You slide on something slippery, you | | | | we urge all individuals, especially those over 60 years |
| are knocked over by something, etc. When you fall | | | | of age, to be tested. If you think your balance is fine |
| because you lost your balance, this is more | | | | because you have not yet fallen, you are simply |
| concerning as it alludes to the fact that there is more | | | | lucky. The simple fact is that you only know your |
| going on, i.e., a problem. There are many medical | | | | balance is good if it has been tested and you pass |
| conditions which contribute to fall risk. Parkinson's, | | | | your test. If you already know that you have poor |
| Alzheimer's, diabetes, cardiac problems to name a | | | | balance, or, you have a history of falling, do yourself |
| few. In the absence of disease, fall risk occurs as an | | | | a huge favor and take advantage of our offer to |
| affect of normal aging. This is insidious, and most do | | | | test you for free. It will change the course of your |
| not perceive that their balance is poor until put to the | | | | life. |
| test, at which point they fall. Some who fall will be | | | | Dr. Scopelliti is a Fellow of the American College of |
| fortunate and get a second chance to treat their | | | | Functional Neurology and a Fellow of the American |
| poor balance, others nay not be so fortunate and | | | | Board of Vestibular Rehabilitation, practicing at the |
| suffer grave injuries that may even be fatal. As | | | | 279 Professional Arts Bldg at Monmouth Medical |
| human's age, the spine tends to degenerate as part | | | | Center, in Long Branch, NJ. His office focuses on the |
| of the normal again process. Because of this | | | | management of patients with vertigo, dizziness, |
| degenerative process, the proprioceptive systems | | | | imbalance, presyncope, dystonia, ADD ADHD, various |
| that send information to the areas of your brain that | | | | stages of coma, and many other neurologic as well |
| regulate balance, tend to diminish over time, so that | | | | as behavioral and cognitive disorders. Dr. Scopelliti is |
| you have less proprioceptive information reaching the | | | | an author and lecturer of postdoctoral neurology, and |
| balance centers of the brain. When this happens, first | | | | has also written several software applications for |
| off, you are at increased risk of fall. Now, amplify the | | | | neurologic and vestibular rehabilitation. Find a wealth |
| situation by adding poor vision, or, being in a situation | | | | of information at Jersey Shore Regional Center for |
| that requires good balance, like at night when it is | | | | Vertigo, Dizziness, Dystonia and ADD ADHD. Visit Dr. |
| dark, or being in a dark room. Consequential balance | | | | Scopelliti's Guestbook to see what patients say. |
| loss will be amplified. As these two systems fail, | | | | |