Left Hand Assessment

For the general assessment I brushed my teeth with my left hand for a whole month. At first it was very awkward and almost felt wrong when I began to brush my teeth. However by the third week it felt more natural and I noticed that my left hand was starting to get better with some other activities that usually felt very strange doing. By the end of the month and even after I was so used to brushing with my left hand that I do it still at times. I have even noticed that I can open door a lot easier with my left hand than with my right hand if I am holding something. Physiologically, my brain is learning how to adapt to a new way of doing something that would usually be natural. However because I am right-handed and brush with my right all the time, to switch causes my brain to work more than before. To learn my brain is sending impulses to the neurons that help control my left hand, allowing movement to occur. The impulses however are a lot slower than the ones that would fire when I use my right hand to do something. Since my …show more content…
However afterwards I can pass the ball and make it to one hundred catches between my hands. Sometimes the plasticity was not that affective since I sometimes did not sleep well or I did not have that high activity levels. I noticed when I was doing my daily log that if I slept well the night before and felt good in the morning and had a relatively high activity level, then my focus and concentration would be better than if I had no sleep and did nothing all day. So I believe that the brain can only be as good as the person if they take care of themselves because if you try fixing something but end up fixing it wrong anyway, what was the point of fixing it? The people I recommend the activity to need to see that just because I did the task to help my brain, I also I had take care of my body and exercise while eating