{"id":384,"date":"2010-12-01T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:45:34","slug":"balance-and-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Balance and mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2269\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrs-uk.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2269\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/paralell_bars.jpg\" alt=\"Patient and physio session using paralell bars\" title=\"Patient and physio session using paralell bars\" width=\"350\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/paralell_bars.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/paralell_bars-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo is provided with permission from Nottingham rehab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Balance is the bodies\u2019 automatic ability to stop us from falling over during tasks e.g. stepping; reaching etc. It is a key requirement for being able to move and walk.\u00a0 After a stroke balance can be affected\u00a0and may take time to recover and for some people may be difficult to regain at all. Therapists assess and work on a person\u2019s ability to balance in different positions (sitting and standing).<\/p>\n<p>In order to walk we have to be able to keep our balance and upright posture, have enough strength in our legs to hold us up and be able to move our legs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balance is the bodies\u2019 automatic ability to stop us from falling over during tasks e.g. stepping; reaching etc. It is a key requirement for being able to move and walk.\u00a0 After a stroke balance can be affected\u00a0and may take time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[223,181,12,35,201,179,148,224,172,207],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-physical","tag-balance","tag-concentration","tag-dyspraxia","tag-fatigue","tag-inattention","tag-insight","tag-medication","tag-mobility","tag-pain","tag-sensation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}