Proprioception

even been suggested that the sense of where our body parts are in space is a sense. For example, if one closes their eyes and tries to touch their forefingers together, most people will be successful or not far from it. However, only the sense of proprioception (where one’s body is in space) could have allowed someone to touch their forefingers together without any help from their other senses. Depending on the individual, the use of their senses can be different than others’ experiences,…

Positions for Mind-Body Problem Mind-body dualism or lack thereof has been a recurring topic of discussion in philosophical discourse. Some of the positions on this mind-body problem include dualism, idealism, and materialism. Dualism is the notion that there are two fundamental states, extended and thinking substance and there are differing areas of this approach that propose their causal relationship or their independence from each other. Idealism focuses on the mind and soul aspect of…

Immune Mediated Development of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy that presents with ascending motor weakness, sensory abnormalities, and loss of reflexes. Guillain-Barré syndrome can be divided into 4 major clinically distinct forms: acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), the Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), and acute sensorimotor axonal neuropathy (AMSAN). There are a…

The movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis and portrayed by Tom Hanks who portrays the principal character. The story is based on the life of a man named Forrest Gump born in Alabama in 1940’s with a IQ score lower than normal which did not stop him from accomplish things most people could only dream off. According to the film the main character was born with a developmental disability in the form of Autism, which I think it’s a mild case, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to function the way…

Line of thinking Root theory: With Dr. Root’s classification of a “normal” foot in mind, We choose to discuss 3 of the 8 criteria of normalacy could be applied to the case study. 1) While it was difficult to observe (due to long pants), the client appeared to be knock-kneed or genu valgum, thus the bisection of the distal third of her lower limb is was not vertical. 2) During midstance she could not maintain neutral position. 3) Finally there rotational influences from the lower limbs present,…

Ryan Fussy, Teddy Bridgewater, Derrick Rose, these are just a few examples of people that have experienced the dreadful injury. Everybody wonders what really happens when athletes or someone they know goes down with an ACL injury. Ryan Fussy’s story is very simple, he was running at football practice, he planted his foot in a bad position and it all went downhill from there. Teddy Bridgewater had almost the exact same thing happen to him at highly supervised and quarterback friendly NFL practice…

With today’s technology I am almost positive that everyone has seen a heartbreaking story of a paralyzed person being able to express themselves or complete an everyday task with the help of a computer. What exactly helped that person complete that function though? It is called Brain Computer Interfaces, or BCIs for short. “A brain-computer interface links a human brain directly to a computer, where neural signals are interpreted and used to perform tasks such as manipulating a mouse”(pg 1). It…

Introduction Alzheimer disease (AD) affects one of ten people over the age of 65. With the increased aging population no, one is immune to suffering from it. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the physical and cognitive changes that comes with the aging process, so that we may help to slower the progression of the disease and hopefully someday develop a cure. Knowledge of condition AD can be considered A state of being brain dead while you’re still awake. The ‘forget me’ disease,…

to effective treatment. One such Institution - The Smile Center, an enrichment center based in NYC for children with SPD, made a push in recent years to find ways of combining all the therapy plans used in traditional OT that focus on touch, proprioception and vestibular…

The seven senses – sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch, proprioception, and veromal – are invaluable to my performance in life. Some are necessary for basic function, and others are particularly enjoyable to have. The decision to lose or keep a certain sense is extremely arduous, as there are minute aspects of the senses that contribute to my everyday life in manners I do not notice. However, upon introspection, I was able to resolve the senses that I believed to be most and least imperative in…