A Guide to Balance and Dizziness by Charles M Plishka

A Guide to Balance and Dizziness by Charles M Plishka

The second edition of A Guide to Balance and Dizziness by Charles M. Plishka returns to address the increasing number of referrals to treat balance impairment, gait disorders, and dizziness. This expanded edition offers tests, measures, and interventions aligned to available research studies to support evidence-based practice. By gaining a fundamental understanding of how we balance, recognizing and understanding the signs and symptoms of patients will become much easier.

Along with numerous updated diagrams and photos, the new edition also comes with access to a website containing video clips that demonstrate key evaluation and treatment techniques. The result will be a better evaluation, treatment plan, and outcome.

Topics and Features Include:

• Tests to evaluate the balance-impaired patient
• Tests and interventions for conditions such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), vestibular loss, and the central and peripheral causes of dizziness
• Therapy treatments
• “How to” instructions throughout
• Instructor resources available for each chapter

A Guide to Balance and Dizziness is a user-friendly reference, ideal for professionals involved in assessing and treating balance impairments and dizziness. It is an instructional text for physical therapy students and clinicians and an excellent resource for established physicians, optometrists, vestibular and balance therapy specialists, occupational therapists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, audiologists, athletic trainers, and other disciplines that evaluate and offer treatment interventions for these conditions.

Charles M. Plishka, PT, DPT, NCS earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Creighton University in Omaha, NE, and is board-certified Neurologic Clinical Specialist in physical therapy. He is the owner of Posture & Balance Concepts, LLC, which offers consulting services, program development, and continuing education courses. He teaches continuing education courses on the topics of vestibular therapy, evaluation and treatment of balance and dizziness, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis, acquired brain injury, and is an international speaker on topics of vestibular therapy. He is co-owner and operator of a vestibular and balance clinic in Billings, Montana, USA.

Dr. Plishka is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association where he has served as the Secretary of the Vestibular Special Interest Group. He is a founder and served as Chair of the Vestibular Special Interest Group for the International Neurologic Physical Therapy Association (INPA), which is part of World Physiotherapy.

He is excited to present A Guide to Balance and Dizziness: Neurologic Evaluation and Treatment of Vestibular Conditions, Second Edition as an introductory text and reference for students and clinicians of different disciplines who evaluate and treat those patients suffering from dizziness and/or disequilibrium.