The Biodex Balance System is a state-of-the-art computerized balance system used to evaluate and train postural balance. The user stands on a platform that objectively measures and records where the person’s weight is centered while displaying visual feedback on a screen of how they shift their weight or sway. The patient’s balance can be tested on different surfaces or with eyes open or closed.
This system allows our therapists to identify a potential balance problem in just two minutes of testing by comparing balance test results to age-dependent normative data. Once identified, patients can participate in a training program to correct functional deficits in their balance.
Visual feedback can help patients learn how to perform more effective weight shifts. The Biodex can also measure and train a person’s stability limits, or how far they can move their center of mass while maintaining balance over their feet. The platform can become dynamic and move in any direction for increased challenge. This test can even be used with athletes to see how well they can balance and support themselves on one leg at a time.
The Biodex can treat older adults with balance issues, those recovering from concussion, and even athletes following orthopedic injury. One of the things that patients like most about Biodex is that they get measurable feedback about how they did, so training on it becomes almost like a game!
Dr. Cassie Newman, PT, DPT,
WWS Physical Therapy and Vestibular Rehabilitation
Doylestown, PA.
(215) 489-3234
