ConditionsBalance & StrengthPalo Alto
Balance & Mobility · Palo Alto, CA
Balance & Strength Care for Palo Alto Patients
Palo Alto patients dealing with balance & strength usually reach our Los Gatos clinic in about 30 minutes via Highway 85 to 101. Rather than another round of the same symptom-management playbook, we start with an actual workup.
What's Really Going On
Balance depends on three systems working together: your vestibular system (inner ear), your visual system, and proprioception (the sense of where your joints and muscles are in space), all coordinated by the cerebellum and brainstem in real time.
How We Treat It, Drug-Free
Once we know which system is lagging, rehab is built to retrain it directly: vestibular and oculomotor exercises if the inner ear or eye-tracking is the weak link, proprioceptive and strength work if joint-position sense or lower-body strength has declined.
Progress is measured, not assumed. We retest posturography and reaction time over the course of care to confirm balance is actually improving and fall risk is actually dropping, not just that you feel a little steadier.