2024 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANNUAL CONFERENCE & PT EXPO

This session will begin with recent evidence about primary sensory influences on head and body verticality, sensory selection for differing balance requirements in everyday life, and problems of single system sensory dependence. There will be an interactive discussion focused on examinations and effective interventions for specific problems, discussion of how to sequence and progress visual, vestibular (particularly otolithic), somatosensory and proprioceptive interventions, especially those relating to verticality perception. Interventions for head righting through cervical proprioceptors and ankle proprioception retraining will be included. Interventions will progress from single system treatments to exercises integrating sensory input. The presentation is based on research of successful interventions for people with Mal de Debarquement, a problem of sensory integration, reweighting and likely sensory inhibition. Techniques for retraining sensory selection, integration and reweighting are applicable to people with neurologic problems including TBI, CVA, MS, and dystonia.