Healing Minds
Healing Minds is a compassionate, dedicated group of therapists, psychiatrists, doctors and counselors who share a deep commitment for helping individuals and families rebuild and improve their lives. At our core, we’re people. People with families, with emotions and with life experiences—some wonderful and some painful. It’s our human-ness that attracted all of us at Healing Minds into this field.
Healing Minds
6490 S McCarran Blvd, Bldg A, #6 Reno, NV 89509
(775) 448-9760
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How Therapy Can Improve Your Balance and Recover From a Stroke
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How therapy helps you improve your balance and prevent falls. When you start physical therapy, you will get screened for fall risk. If you’re at significant risk for falls, therapists will give exercises that carefully and safely challenge your balance as a way to simulate real-life conditions. Therapists also help you with activities to develop coordination and assistive tools to help with safer walking. When the balance difficulty is produced by a problem in one’s vestibular method, Physical therapists can do special maneuvers that can quickly restore proper vestibular functioning, and decrease or eliminate symptoms of dizziness or vertigo.
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How therapy helps you recover from a stroke. It’s common to lose some level of function and mobility after stroke. Physical therapy helps to restore weak parts of the body and improve motion and balance. Physical therapists can also help stroke patients’ ability to transfer and move around in bed so that they can be more self-sufficient around the home, and reduce their burden of care for bathing, dressing, toileting, and other daily living activities.
