Home › Exercise library › Balance

Balance · Mid recovery

Perturbation Stance

Perturbation Stance: start and finish positions
Start and finish positions. Photographs by BoneArc.

How to do it

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, weight even on both feet. Allow your body to be nudged off balance, then reset and hold steady.

Body region
Balance
Position
Standing
Equipment
No equipment
Recovery phase
Mid recovery
Purpose
Balance

Used in home programs for

  • ACL Reconstruction
  • Chronic Ankle Instability
  • Gait & Balance Dysfunction / Fall Risk
  • Hip Replacement
  • Knee Replacement

Put this in a program

Clinicians build a printed or phone-delivered home exercise program from 831 photographed exercises. No account to build or print.

Add Perturbation Stance to a program Open the builder

Related exercises

This page describes one exercise as it appears in the BoneArc library so a clinician can decide whether it belongs in a patient's program. It is not a prescription. Follow the plan your own clinician gave you.