Today we talk to Dr. Ramiro Maldonado, Doctor of Physical Therapy, to talk about the difficulties brain injury survivors face including balance, dizziness, visual disturbance, and vertigo. He explains the cause of these impairments and how vestibular therapy can help. He also instructs us on ways we can practice vestibular exercises at home.

Ramiro Maldonado is a licensed Physical Therapist in the state of New York and graduated from the MGH Institute in Boston, with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2007. He spent most of his 10+ year clinical career practicing in Philadelphia, PA, with Good Shepherd Penn Partners, the official therapy provider for Penn Medicine. There he focused his career on treating those with vestibular and neurological impairment and also received further training in vestibular competency at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. After making a career shift, today he works with Gorbel Rehabilitation, a company that creates robotic rehabilitation equipment. 

Resources:

Balance Exercises, Caregiver Training, and Orthopedic Exercises from Gorbel Rehabilitation: https://www.youtube.com/c/Safegait/playlists