Brain gym is a teaching technique that uses simple movements to stimulate brain function through the use of quick, easy-to-do developmental movements that wake up the brain without causing it any stress or injury (Cernicky, 1). Brain gym consists of a set of exercises that use your fingers to stimulate neurons in the brain which improve blood circulation. The purpose of these activities is to stimulate the nerves in the body and create energy, which is known as “chi”. Brain gym fosters eye teaming, hand-eye coordination, and whole-body flexibility, therefore activating the brain for optimal storage and retrieval of information.
Brain gym is important because children often rely too much on one cerebral hemisphere of the brain alone, instead …show more content…
Dennison, and his wife and colleague, Gail E. Dennison, who say that the interdependence of movement, cognition, and applied learning is the basis of their work (Brain Gym International, 1). Dennison was a pioneer in the field of kinesiology who spent the majority of his young adulthood researching reading achievement and its relation to brain development. He hypothesized that the small motor skills (e.g., eye and hand motion) involving precision for reading and writing are best developed within a context of inter-limb coordination and are best executed when repeated over and over …show more content…
Recent studies have shown that certain mental activities, such as brain gym exercises, may delay or prevent memory loss later in life. A new program being offered at some senior centers is taking this news to heart and having their patients partake in daily computer classes that stimulate the brain. These classes allow the seniors to participate in a variety of basic brain gym games. Patients have seen significant improvements in their daily activities and have noticed that they are far less forgetful than usual. Brain gym was also found to have a positive correlation between the elderly and their driving records. Elderly people who did at least ten sessions of brain training were found to have half as many crashes on the road as their untrained counterparts (Coghlan, 1). Even though the brain gym training didn't directly relate to driving itself, it helped to keep the elders more alert while driving and benefited their hand eye coordination and
Brain gym is important because children often rely too much on one cerebral hemisphere of the brain alone, instead …show more content…
Dennison, and his wife and colleague, Gail E. Dennison, who say that the interdependence of movement, cognition, and applied learning is the basis of their work (Brain Gym International, 1). Dennison was a pioneer in the field of kinesiology who spent the majority of his young adulthood researching reading achievement and its relation to brain development. He hypothesized that the small motor skills (e.g., eye and hand motion) involving precision for reading and writing are best developed within a context of inter-limb coordination and are best executed when repeated over and over …show more content…
Recent studies have shown that certain mental activities, such as brain gym exercises, may delay or prevent memory loss later in life. A new program being offered at some senior centers is taking this news to heart and having their patients partake in daily computer classes that stimulate the brain. These classes allow the seniors to participate in a variety of basic brain gym games. Patients have seen significant improvements in their daily activities and have noticed that they are far less forgetful than usual. Brain gym was also found to have a positive correlation between the elderly and their driving records. Elderly people who did at least ten sessions of brain training were found to have half as many crashes on the road as their untrained counterparts (Coghlan, 1). Even though the brain gym training didn't directly relate to driving itself, it helped to keep the elders more alert while driving and benefited their hand eye coordination and