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Problems with balance can occur when there is a disruption in any of the vestibular, visual, or proprioceptive systems. Abnormalities in balance function may indicate a wide range of pathologies from causes like inner ear disorders, low blood pressure, brain tumors, and brain injury including stroke. [citation needed]
Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, gives three reasons why balance problems could be in your head.
Frailty can have impacts on public health due to the factors that comprise the syndrome affecting physical and mental health outcomes. There are several ways to identify, prevent, and mitigate the prevalence of frailty and the evaluation of frailty can be done through clinical assessments created to combine recognized signs and symptoms of frailty.
Damage to the limbic system involves loss or damage to memory, and may include: [citation needed] loss or confusion of long-term memory prior to focal neuropathy (retrograde amnesia) inability to form new memories (anterograde amnesia) loss of, or reduced emotions ; loss of olfactory functions; loss of decision-making ability
Visual symptoms including loss of vision or double vision; Speech symptoms including dysphonia (whispering speech), slurred or stuttering speech; Sensory disturbance including hemisensory syndrome (altered sensation down one side of the body) Numbness or inability to sense touch; Dizziness and balance problems; Pain (including chronic migraines)
Fatigue is a state of tiredness (which is not sleepiness), exhaustion [1] or loss of energy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Fatigue (in the medical sense) is sometimes associated with medical conditions including autoimmune disease , organ failure , chronic pain conditions, mood disorders , heart disease , infectious diseases , and post-infectious-disease states ...
Trouble walking or loss of balance and coordination. Cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency when your heart stops beating suddenly. It’s sometimes mistakenly called a heart attack ...
A woman demonstrating the ability to balance A waiter balancing wine glasses. Balance in biomechanics, is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of mass) of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway. [1] Sway is the horizontal movement of the centre of gravity even when a person is standing still.