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balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, for example when standing or walking. It may be accompanied by feelings of giddiness, or wooziness, or having a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating.
Balance is the result of several body systems working together: the
visual system (eyes),
vestibular system (ears) and
proprioception (the body's sense of where it is in space). Degeneration or loss of function in any of these systems can lead to balance deficits.