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    Many people believe that human reality and experiences are the direct outcome of people’s senses and people’s reality and personal experiences are created that base on the reactions with surrounding’s stimulates. However, the production of people’s reality and personal experiences is a very complicated process, the surrounding’s stimulates are just part of it. In “The Mind’s Eye: What The Blind See” Oliver Sacks talks about the different characteristics that the blind people have and he points…

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    Phantom Limb Pain

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    Over the past couple years many scientists have heard about this strange pain in a part of the body that no longer exists. It is called Phantom Limb Pain. Many amputees agree that this pain is too much. Phantom Limb Pain occurs in 80 percent of the people who have had a limb amputated. Some amputees may experience tingling, cramping, heat, and cold in that part that has been removed. The sensations that may have been experienced before the limb was removed may be experienced to the phantom limb.…

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    Approximately 185,000 amputations occur in the United States each year. (Kozak,1998). That’s 185,000 people who may be battling with finding themselves connecting to people in the U.S population due to their insecurities. Imagine what it is like for amputees trying to discover a companion to give them a long term loving relationship. Not everyone is super accepting of someone who can unlatch their metal rod of a leg after a long day at work. In the article by Andy Greenburg, “A Step Beyond…

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    In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, there are two case studies of proprioception. Proprioception is described as our “sixth sense”. As Dr. Oliver Sacks explains, we have five senses but there are other senses that are considered secret-senses or sixth senses which are just as vital as the other senses but go unrecognized. “It is the awareness of the relative position of the trunk and limbs, derived from receptors in the joints and tendons.” For normal people, in normal situations, these…

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    Dr. Sacks talks about the loss of self that is accompanied with a loss of proprioception, a loss of identity as well as individuality. He refers to proprioception as “The fundamental organic mooring of identity”. Meaning that without the ability to feel and recognize our bodies as our own, we no longer have any security in who we are and what we are capable of doing…

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    Mental Imagery

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    “You have to smell it, you have to hear it, you have to feel it, everything” said Emily Cook, an American Freestyle Skier. Two weeks before the 2002 Winter Olympics, Emily fractured her left foot and tore her ligaments in both of her feet. After all the painful surgeries, Emily felt deeply discouraged and believed it was impossible to participate in the Olympics (Clarey, 2014). Nicole Detling, a Sport Psychologist, worked with Emily on mental imagery; Nicole first used a healing imagery by…

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    Spinocerebellar Essay

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    Clinical Presentation (Marchevsky and Richardson 1999): A Rottweiler, 8 years of age, reported with ataxia in the hindlimbs, in addition to patellar hyperreflexia together with deficits in proprioception and posture. Neck pain was also presented. Although some mild ataxia was reportedly seen in the forelimbs, proprioception and reflexes were normal. This was enough evidence to suggest a cervical spinal cord lesion. Radiographs obtained under sedation, showed a reduction of the intervertebral…

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    Knee Protesting Theory

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    INTRODUCTION Proprioception is defined as the “cumulative neural input to the CNS from mechanoreceptors in the joint capsule, ligaments, muscles, tendons and skin” (Beard et al 1993). There is loss of both stability and proprioception in the knee following an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) (Barrett DS 1991). The afferent nerves are responsible for proprioception arise from the ligaments, capsules surrounding muscles and skin (Grigg P et al 1982) activating muscle contraction,…

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    Kinesio Tape Essay

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    cotton and acrylic-acid-consisting porous fabric. As such, Kinesio tape is a unique non-latex adhesive patch. Its function in pain reduction can be explained on the bases that once it adheres to the VMO muscle of a patient with anterior knee pain, proprioception input increases hence facilitating muscle contraction (35). Additionally, the tape is applied over the iliotibial band, tensor fasciae latae and VL muscle to hinder tension of the muscles as well as relax the muscle. Research (8)…

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    Upper-Limb Rehabilitation

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    In the Augmented Perception for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation study experimenters were looking at different hand postures and movements used in everyday skills. This was evaluated through identifying different motions of the arms, elbows, wrist, and fingers, and imitating these motions. With respect to identifying the motion, the participant either with or without a headset on, heard a beep, saw two stick figure arms, then saw either the left or right arm move and perform 1 of 4 actions (wiggle,…

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