A 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis reports 4 falls…

A 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis reports 4 falls in the past month, all occurring when she was bumped or jostled while standing in line at the grocery store. She did not take a corrective step during any of these episodes. Her BBS is 44/56 and her Mini-BESTest is 18/28, with the lowest scores in the reactive postural control domain. Which intervention is MOST directly targeted to her primary balance deficit?

A therapist observes that a patient with left hemiparesis de…

A therapist observes that a patient with left hemiparesis demonstrates shortened stance time on the left lower extremity, rapid weight transfer to the right, lateral trunk lean to the right during left stance phase, and left knee hyperextension at loading response. Which functional requirement of walking is MOST impaired?