Balance & Falls SIG: Dr. Cindy Gibson-Horn Interview- Episode 7

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ANPT Balance and Falls Special Interest Group

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The Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Balance & Falls Special Interest Group is a component of the American Physical Therapy Association. The BF SIG is comprised of physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students in physical therapy programs who share information on research and programs aimed to increase networking, collaborations, and knowledge translation to achieve improved identification of balance deficits and fall risks and reduced preventable falls in populations with neurologic impairments.

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Balance & Falls SIG: Dr. Cindy Gibson-Horn Interview- Episode 7

ANPT Balance and Falls Special Interest Group

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4 years ago

Balance & Falls SIG: Dr. Cindy Gibson-Horn Interview- Episode 7

In this episode from the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Balance and Falls Special Interest Group, Dr. Julie Schwertfeger interviews Dr. Cindy Gibson-Horn, the developer of BalanceWear and owner of Motion Therapeutics Physical Therapy. We discuss her PT background, her clinical 'aha' moment about strategic torso weighting to improve balance, and a series of research studies that use the BalanceWear system and assessment methods she developed.

* Here is the 2007 JNPT article with case videos that Dr.Horn references in the podcast:

Gibson-Horn, Cynthia PT Balance-Based Torso-Weighting in a Patient with Ataxia and Multiple Sclerosis: A Case Report, Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy: September 2008 - Volume 32 - Issue 3 - p 139-146 doi: 10.1097/NPT.0b013e318185558f

Please email any questions to BalanceFallsSIG@gmail.com

The Balance and Falls Special Interest Group is part of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy – www.neuropt.org.