The Dizzy PT

It's that time of year again! BALANCE AWARENESS WEEK is almost here, and we are excited to make vestibular visible!

Share with us how you're planning to participate!

Save the dates and sign up now for this year's Life Rebalanced Live! This is such a great resource for patients with dizziness, and you can connect with other patients too!

You can watch live for free, or pay a small fee for lifetime access to the recordings.

Sign up at vestibular.org/LRL

Excited to have a new tool for educating my patients about BPPV! These are a magnified version of the otoconia (ear crystals, rocks, particles, etc) that can cause vertigo spells when they relocate to the semicircular canals of the inner ear. As a vestibular PT, I help patients treat this all the time!

Thank you to for designing these and sharing instructions to make our own!

And to my amazingly artistic sister and the for making this set for me!

Enjoyed another great Fall Festival at the Burleson Senior Center! Thanks to those who stopped by our booth to learn about vestibular physical therapy!

Thanks for joining me again this year!

Thankful for all the vestibular warriors out there who keep moving forward to find hope and encouraging others to do the same.

This shirt and artwork were sent to us for winning the photo contest this year. Thank you for all you do!

They are a reminder to me as a provider that there are still so many patients out there looking for hope, and a big part of that is awareness!

Sharing your own story may help the next patient find treatment too.

Here's a few highlights from Balance Awareness Week 2023! Several staff, patients, and fitness members stopped by to participate in the photobooth.

Our Physical Therapists were excited to be able to answer questions as several people stopped by to see how we can help improve their balance, dizziness or vertigo.

Texas Health Burleson is all set for where we raise awareness for invisible vestibular disorders!

Stop by the photobooth to show off your balance pose, and learn about how dizziness can be treated!

Thankful for another opportunity to share my love of vestibular rehab with the awesome PTA students at WC!

When you need a way to measure Subjective Visual Vertical, build your own bucket test!

The patient places their face inside the bucket and turns the bucket until the white line appears to be vertical. The clinician measures accuracy on the outside of the bucket at the same time.

Thanks to for simple directions on how to build this!

I'm thankful to Helena, David, and Andre for the opportunity to join their team for the weekend and represent at the Fyzical Brand annual conference!

We shared about their awesome goggles, vestibular models, and educational resources to the therapists we met from all over the world.

I especially enjoyed chatting with PTs who are new to treating dizziness and encouraging them to join us in such a needed area of rehab.

Had a great time riding the Burleson Honey Tour this morning!

I should have taken more pictures, but here's the Texas Health crew and a couple shots from the starting line.

Looking forward to next year!

Happy hospital week! I was surprised and honored to receive an award for clinical excellence today, in large part for building the vestibular PT program we have at Texas Health Burleson (and just doing what I love every day!)

I'm proud to have been chosen among all of the awesome individuals that were nominated!

Thank you to my manager Hal, who nominated me, and wrote such encouraging words about me, that were read out to the entire crowd. And to our administrator Blake, who sneakily got me to this event without me knowing what it was, and even arranged for my husband to be there as an additional surprise!

Congrats also to THB coworkers from our ER that also won awards, especially Kevin, winning Nurse of the Year!

It was a beautiful day for a training ride (and some Panera!) with my dad. We're preparing for the Burleson Honeytour on Memorial Day Weekend.

Who else will be joining us at the Honeytour?

As always, thankful for another opportunity to share with our community about treatment for dizziness, vertigo, and balance conditions!

Thank you to Burleson Senior Center for hosting us!

Life Rebalanced Live is this week! Check out the info below to sign up!

This is a great resource to learn more from vestibular healthcare providers and patient panelists sharing their stories of treatment and symptom management.

It's also a great opportunity to get connected with other vestibular warriors who understand what dealing with an invisible illness can be like.

Vote in the comments! ✅ Which topics are you most excited to learn about at the virtual conference next week?

1. The Vestibular Journey
2. The Path to Diagnosis & Initiating Treatment
3. Treatment & Rehabilitation for Vestibular Disorders
4. Understanding Central Vestibular Disorders
5. Coping with Vestibular Dysfunction

Can't pick? The great news is that you can watch all of these sessions FOR FREE at the Life Rebalanced Live virtual conference!

But hurry - the conference is next week, March 6-10! Register today at vestibular.org/LRL

If you have visually induced dizziness, check this out!

Explore Balanceland – Cardiff University Dizzy Lab What is Balanceland? Balanceland is the new dizziness rehabilitation game created by the Cardiff University Dizzy Lab (CUDL)! It currently features different environments designed to reduce the severity of symptoms of dizziness. How does it work? Rehabilitation for these dizziness symptoms have been...

Thankful for another opportunity to engage with the Burleson community and share the hope vestibular rehab can offer!

We had a great time at the Senior Center's Fall Festival. Thanks to all who came by and chatted with us!

Stop by the Burleson Senior Center on Thursday for their Fall Festival and health fair!

Kendall and I will be representing Texas Health Burleson!

Meet the newest patient in physical therapy, Humpty Pumpky! Complete with medical history, imaging, and PT referral.

He's the PT department entry for our facility's pumpkin decorating contest.

We had a great time being creative and showing him off to our patients!

Fun day chatting about vestibular PT at the Mariposa Apartments for their first health fair!

FREE BOOK EVENTS!

Dallas - Oct 26, Wed at 6:30 pm CST at Times Ten Cellars. Join me and Dr. Beh for food, a presentation on the vagus nerve, and open questions on the book and more! Sign up here for in person and online. https://www.milesformigraine.org/educational-events/natural-treatment-strategies-vagus-nerve-stimulation/

Phoenix - Nov 19, Saturday at 4:30pm at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn at Rita's join me and Dr. Beh for light bites, a presentation and questions! Sign up: https://bit.ly/3VzEYJz

Do your friends, family, or even healthcare provider use age as an excuse for your symptoms?

Have you ever heard, “You’re getting older”, or something similar instead of helping you find the true cause of your symptoms?

While dizziness may be more common in older adults, it is not caused by age alone. Keep asking questions and pushing to find the actual cause, and don’t let your provider use age as an excuse!

Had a good time doing balance and fall risk testing at the Women's Health Fair this morning! Thanks to all who came by to get tested and chat about dizziness and fall prevention!

Come by the Women's Health Fair this Saturday at Texas Health Burleson! I'll be doing free fall risk screening, and answering any and all questions about dizziness, vertigo, and balance!

Grab your girlfriends and come out to Texas Health Burleson's Women's Health and Safety Event on Saturday, October 1st from 9 am-12 pm. Join us for a morning of pampering while taking advantage of complimentary health screenings and safety information. And while you are here make plans to get your annual mammogram. To pre-schedule your mammogram call 1-877-THR-WELL or visit texashealth.org/burleson.

We had a great time celebrating Balance Awareness Week! Thank you to all who stopped by our photobooth and shared photos to help spread awareness about vestibular disorders, balance, and fall prevention!

If you have dizziness, imbalance, or concerns about falls, reach out to us and we'll share how Physical Therapy can help!

Here's a few highlights from our photobooth so far!

It's Balance Awareness Week!

Local friends, stop by Texas Health Burleson to participate with us! Come show off your balance pose and learn about invisible vestibular disorders!

Thankful for another opportunity to teach a great group of PTA students all about vestibular rehab!

"But you don't look like anything is wrong." How many times have you heard that throughout your vestibular journey? Just because you look fine on the outside doesn't mean that the symptoms you are experiencing are not real and often debilitating. Balance Awareness Week, coming up this September 18-24, is our time to shine a light on these invisible disorders and make vestibular visible. Find out what you can do at www.vestibular.org/BAW