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The need?Our balance when we walk or stand is something we take for granted, and when we lose some of our balance due to injury or age, we often "automatically" compensate without even realizing it. Your body might compensate for a while, in essence hiding the symptoms while your body could be trying to tell you something needs to be changed. How can you actually know if your balance is ok or if you have suffered an athletic injury that you are automatically compensating for? This is an even more important issue for people who have elderly patients. Every year 250,000 people suffer hip injuries in the United States alone. The loss of mobility, the surgery expenses, and the difficulty of healing after the fact of a hip injury is extremely hard. It is much better to catch the balance issue as soon as they might be occurring, which allows people to deal the problem and often improve their balance before it causes a serious fall. The unique solution?Dr. Katherine Forth is a NASA scientists who has been helping as