A rebalancing act
26 May, 2022
UBC Okanagan research probing the mysteries of human balance will help us stand better and fall less as we age
Somewhere between eight and 18 months, babies take their own small step for humankind—those first wobbly plods into a parent’s arms. This giant leap for their developing brains is still barely understood by science—a marvel of neurons and the nervous system that we usually take for granted throughout our lives.
But the final frontier of health science might just be our understanding of what maintains our balance as we age.
As a teen growing up in Newfoundland, Dr. Brian Dalton—now an Assistant Professor of neuromuscular physiology at UBC Okanagan’s School of Health and Exercise Sciences—noticed something happening to his grandmother Grace.
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