Program & classes
The Balance Program
Individualised balance training within a supported group environment
The Balance Program uses a consistent class structure with exercises and challenges adjusted to each participant's assessment, goals, current capability and safety needs.
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Everyone shares the class structure. Not everyone does the same exercise.
Your clinician may adjust support, stance, movement, direction, speed, sensory conditions, resistance, task complexity, attention and recovery challenge. Progression or a reduction in challenge depends on your response and safety needs.
Train balance for everyday life
Exercise selection follows assessment and your goals: walking, turning, reaching, carrying, changing direction, stepping, negotiating obstacles, managing surfaces or responding when movement demands change. Not every participant trains every domain in every session.
Stability
Maintain control in relevant positions and movements.
Stepping and reactions
Practise appropriate stepping and recovery responses.
Movement
Practise turning, reaching, transitions and direction changes.
Walking adaptability
Explore relevant changes in speed, surface, direction or surroundings.
Sensory challenge
Where appropriate, adjust visual, inner-ear or body-position demands with suitable support.
Strength and power
Develop physical capacity for relevant movement and recovery.
Attention and task complexity
Where relevant, gradually combine movement with other demands.
Confidence and exposure
Build experience with appropriately selected activities that may have become avoided.
Transfer
Connect class work to an everyday activity or personal goal.
How a session works
Readiness and connection
Check changes, symptoms or incidents, current priorities and whether planned participation remains appropriate.
Capacity linked to task
Select strength, mobility, endurance and movement work linked to the person's identified needs.
Individual balance challenge
Adjust support, movement, sensory conditions, speed and complexity to current capability and safety.
Application and transfer
Practise relevant turning, stepping, reaching, carrying, walking or environmental tasks.
Close the loop
Review the response, agree a useful next action and adjust challenge or support. Connect the session to an everyday goal.
Who may benefit?
The programme may suit people with reduced balance confidence, difficulty turning or changing direction, reduced stepping responses, difficulty walking in challenging environments, or changes after illness or inactivity. Assessment must identify goals that can be appropriately trained in a group. People with neurological, vestibular or other health conditions may participate when this format is clinically appropriate for their individual needs.
Sometimes individual assessment should come first
Unexplained recent falls, significant or rapidly changing symptoms, new neurological signs, uncontrolled medical issues, acute vestibular symptoms or complex needs may require individual assessment or medical care first. Group entry also depends on being able to participate safely with the support available.
Call Triple Zero (000) for a life-threatening situation. Sudden or severe changes need medical assessment before routine class enquiries.
One part of your wider plan
The Balance Program can form one part of a broader exercise or rehabilitation plan. Your clinician may recommend additional practice or other care depending on your goals and assessment. A weekly class is not a complete falls-prevention prescription for everyone.
What we review
We review balance capability, walking and functional tasks, confidence or concerns, progression of relevant exercise, falls or near-falls where relevant, and transfer into selected everyday activities. Review guides changes in challenge, support and the wider care plan. Improvement and falls reduction are not guaranteed.
Current class locations and times
Session times can be confirmed with the Clinics GRP team when booking.
Yeronga
Monday: 11:45 AM · Wednesday: 11:00 AM
Coorparoo
Tuesday: 2:00 PM
Taigum
Monday: 11.00 AM
Duration
55 minutes
Cost
Residents: $20.00 · Public: $35.00
Booking
Bookings are essential.
Classes are delivered inClinic at the published locations. Digital support is for information, enquiries, booking and coordination; it is not an equivalent class-delivery setting.
Confirm location, time and suitability: 1300 693 499