Proprioception

The nerves receptors respond to pressure, hot, cold, and pain. Pressure has its own receptors, and other sensations are made up of combinations of the four different receptors. The skin provides information for touch, temperature, and proprioception. Proprioception is the knowledge of the movement and position of the body. Special neurons send messages about the movement of the muscles. Balance and the tracking of body movement is created by the vestibular system, fluid in the ears. The fluid is…

Fall risk will increase as postural response declines and proprioception becomes less acute; an estimated 30% of individuals with AD have difficulty with falls. To assist with this regression, moving about in an open area, with few objects creating obstacles, can reduce the risk, along with appropriate lighting in…

hold their balance, which soon turns into learning to walk. During this time children are learning their bodies and how to use and control them. Typically during this time children are slower with bodily movements because they are learning their proprioception. As children get older their gross…

Descartes’s argument for substance dualism stems from his famous one-liner, “I think, therefore I am.” In this statement, Descartes thinks and knows that he exists. He attributes his self, “I”, as being rooted in his mind, and he perceives his existence extended and apart from other things in his body, i.e. his body is not everything around him, but rather a biological machine extended in a certain amount of space. Descartes thinks that because a mind and body can be understood separate from…

our senses, which then transmitted to the brain. The information is then integrated and the individual has an adaptive response. An individual is composed of eight senses, which are tactile, olfactory, gustatory, visual, auditory, vestibular, proprioception and intraception. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), also known as Sensory Integration Disorder, is a neurological disorder that makes it difficult for an individual to process and organize information received from the senses. Three…

My mother, Gabby, fell down the stairs last week. She was walking down the stairs after using the bathroom and near the bottom of the staircase, she tripped and fell. She fractured her hip, and now she needs to have hip replacement surgery. Unfortunately, we all basically know why this happened. My mom has been having mobility issues for some time now, to the point where she uses a walker most of the time to get around. This can mostly be accounted from bone density loss that occurs in…

Part One: Losses Case Study: “The Disembodied Lady” Summary: Christina is a mother and programmer who has suddenly lost her proprioception, which refers to her sense of “self”, meaning that she does not feel “aware” of her body. More specifically, she feels paralyzed and disembodied because of her condition, even though she has slowly regained the ability to move again by using her mind. Initially this sensation appeared to her prior to a gallbladder surgery in a frightening dream, in which she…

In light of John Searle’s claim that the Background plays an important role in determining the content of a visual perception, two people can view the same Mona Lisa painting and have non-identical visual experiences. Even if they have equal mental and physical functions, are equally distanced from the painting, and are standing in the same angle in respect to the painting, the visual experience for two people is unique to each individual because the ability to interpret and generate meaning…

As the body age’s, different ailments and diseases seem to creep in and attach itself to joints, ligaments, and bones. One such disease is osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a degeneration of joint and cartilage and the underlying bone. This is more common in the middle age onward. This disease causes pain and stiffness in the joint if affects. The joints it affects is the hip, knee, and thumb joints (USA.GOV, 2015). Therefore, “Evidence-based clinical guidelines: A New System to Better Determine…

Chapter 14 studies careers in therapeutic exercise. Therapeutic exercise is defined as the “systematic and scientific application of exercise and movement experiences to develop or restore muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, neuromuscular coordination, cardiovascular efficiency, and other health and performance factors” (Lecture). The goals of therapeutic exercise professionals are to help people acquire skills and to restore lost functions that are considered normal or expected for…