Dynamic Balance Obstacle Course
Neuromuscular Re-Education and Body Mechanics
Documentation and Activity Rationale
The patient engaged in an obstacle course designed with a rocker board, tandem line walk, aerdic steppers, and balancing on a foam pad to simulate various obstacles required during continuous community mobility. Task requiring verbal cues to correct posture and sequence steps. Task increase body schema, generalized strength, and proprioceptive awareness.
Grading Strategies
Grading Up:
- Use ankle or wrist weights
- Increase Weight on Batton
- Use more Hurdles
- Increase Speed
Grading Down:
- Decrease or eliminate weight
- Eliminate obstacles
- Decrease Speed
Appropriate Diagnoses / Deficits
- Generalized Weakness
- SCI
- CVA
- TBI
- Balance deficits
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