Proprioception

The aim of this investigation was to test whether balance is affected by age. The results of this experiment show that the younger age group have greater balance than the older age groups. The 0-20 year olds achieved an average time of 47.75 seconds with the average age being 13 years, the 20-40 year olds achieved an average time of 31.42 seconds with the average age being 31 years, the 40-60 year olds achieved an average time of 40.50 seconds with the average age being 45.5 years and the 60+…

Senses are a vital necessity in human life. Senses consist of sight, sounds, smell, tastes, and texture. A main function of the senses is to maintain homeostasis. There are two senses; general and special. “General senses are those with receptors widely distributed throughout the body, including skin, various organs and joints” ( ,Pg. 444). “Special senses have more specialized receptors and are confined to structure in the head, such as eyes and ears”( ,Pg.444). Over time, scientists…

Ecclesiastes”(Sacks 180) the article sums up her opinion as, “For this reason, I can't wholeheartedly recommend The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, interesting as it is. It sums up many of the concepts we discussed in class (like the importance of proprioception) beautifully, but gives others (like the realities of "simple" people) an overly simplistic treatment. Maybe that's why the book's subtitle is "and Other Clinical Tales;" Sacks excels at describing the medical symptoms and problems…

Inside your skull is about one and a halfkilos of meat that somehow manages to keep you breathing, help you remember where your wallet is and remind you which is the best hole to put your lunch in not that One. And you know what, maths tests aside, it normally does a pretty decent job of stuff. But when you are dealing with something so unbelievably complicated, among the billions of humans all over the planet, you’re occasionally going to have some pretty unusual brain anomalies. There’s the…

the eleven weeks at Windridge I have experienced the physical, emotional, psychological, and social aspect of why a horse can be therapeutic. While being on a horse you are working on to improve balance, coordination, circulation, respiration, proprioception, agility, self-confidence and mental relaxation. A horse can stimulate multiple senses that are beneficial for a rider, such as smell, auditory, and tactile. One huge plus for using horses for therapy, is that horses behave similarly like…

My research question came from my interest in my major, which is Kinesiology. I wanted to know, as a future sports physical therapist, how to rehabilitate athletes with a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). The question is significant because athletes and physical educators want to know the characteristics, risk factors, and cautions. The question that comes to most athletes’, therapists’, and physical educators’ minds is how they can avoid and treat the injury when it happens. Numerous…

The case study for this essay is a male patient, 63, two months post-stroke who suffered an infarct in the proximal segment of the middle cerebral artery. There are four aspects that will be considered within this essay. The first aspect will address primary and secondary body structures that have been impaired. The second section will look Circuit Class Therapy (CCT) as a form of treatment through critical appraisal of two relevant research papers. The next question to be addressed will…

Its 6am; the alarm goes off. This time Jack doesn 't scream or cover his ears. The once familiar feeling of each sound wave as they hit the sides of his skull; the agonizing echo bouncing in his head is gone. To many, noting this absence in response seems extreme; perhaps an exaggeration or overly dramatic, but to Jack, it 's a moment he never understood before. For him it 's the moment of knowing what it feels like to be "normal"; even if it 's just for this one time. Reaching this monumental…

1.9.5. Students’ Attitude Students’ attitude is a very essential part of teaching - learning process. It is therefore a very important component of the pedagogical necessity to develop a positive attitude among the learners of Languages especially languages other than one’s mother tongue. Both positive as well as negative attitudes have an impact on the learning outcomes of language teaching. Attitude can enable learners to express whether they like or dislike the subject or the language they…

In our first case, Jody returns from successful ACL rehabilitation and returns to the field. In her first at bat, it is conceived that she tears her other ACL during her swing. Using the context clues, we shall discuss what other factors are associated with it and what can be done to protect herself and other athletes from having this misfortune. Jody, outside of softball has had a various amount of stressors that has lead us to this point. She has been arguing with her boyfriend and has been…