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Show Sunday, August 28, 2005 DAILY HERALD MATT SMITH/Daily Herald Alan a balance in Provo, positions the feet of Allene Anderson as she prepares to demonstrate a Computerized DynamicPlatform posturography test. A CDPtest tests the relationship among all the parts of the balance system. Dizzy Continued from C1 Collazo said. “I just started to walk like a drunk.” Even checking his side and rearview mirrors while driving caused Withan activelifestyle that includes 19 grandchildren, Collazo, 57, wanted immediate help andtried to contact a neurolo- gist. “It’s ironic,” he said, “in St. George, there are so manyold people. There are a few neurologists only.” After returning to Provo, Collazo ended up at Horizon, where Nybo tested his balance using a posturography machine. Dev by NASA totest the effects of space flight on inner ear function, the device posi- tions patients on a movableplatform enclosed on three sic Patients focus on a screen that measures their balance as they shift position. Sometimes, the therapist will shift the machine aroundthem, orshift the platform beneath them. “The first time, he hadto put me in a harness,” Collazosaid. “Ifell off everywhere.” During the month that followed, Collazo and Nybo met several times a week for rigorous therapy sessions. Collazo has since followed a routine of daily exercises that takes him about 30 minutes. st i “Now I am in beautiful shape,” he said.In addition to relieving his dizziness and coordination problems, Collazo said, Nybo’s treatments helped him to sleep without experiencing numbness in his arms. “It's wonderful to have people like him around, “ said Collazo. “I’m grateful and blessed that I'm in Provo.” Notjust part of getting old Collazo sought immediate help.Yet,just as Leifson did, many people tolerate dizziness problems because they aren't awarethatsolutions exist. People who visit a doctor to complain of dizziness are sometimes sent away withlittle more than a shrug,said Osborne: “Oftentimes their doctor will tell them that they don't know what to do.” Nybo recalled a Price resident who visited him after coping with dizziness for more than three years. The problem had started after the man stepped on a skateboard and took a spill. Following a handful of visits to the Horizon clinic, the dizziness subsided. i Problems aren't always immediately evident, of course. Ruth Stringham, a retired schoolteacher living in Provo, lived with dizziness for about ayear following cancertreatment thatinvolved radiation therapy and caused herto lose sight in one eye. Atfirst the 87-year-old shrugged off the dizziness as aside effect of cancertreatment. Then she began having trouble staying on her feet. “My husband hadto hold on to me all the time,” Stringham said, to prevent her from falling. Nybo saidfalling is the most lethal of dizziness — falls are the No.1 cause of accidental death in people over 65. Testing revealed a unilateral weakness,a state in which one or the other ear has experienced degradation of normal function. Stringham made regular visits to Nybo for about seven weeks. Now she does head and vision exercises for 12 minutes every day. 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