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Proprioception & Balance Exercises
Proprioception & Balance Exercises
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What is Proprioception?
Proprioception is the sense of knowing where your body part is
in space.
This can be a difficult concept to grasp until you lose it, because so
much proprioception occurs subconsciously.
Your proprioception capabilities can be impaired when joints are
injured, such as
with ligament sprains.
When you lose proprioception of your joint after a
sprain, you may experience an unstable sensation of the
joint. Your joint may
even give-out. The most common symptom is poor balance.
In this respect, most people can understand the concept that poor
balance can be a result of poor proprioception. However, even
your spinal posture has a proprioception component telling you whether
or not you are sitting or standing upright. Good posture could be
thought of as perfect spinal balance!
Every injury has the potential to decrease your proprioception and
subsequently your balance.
However, you can quickly improve both your proprioception and balance
with proprioception
and balance exercises.
What are Proprioception / Balance Exercises?
Proprioceptive and balance exercises teach your body to control the
position of a deficient or an injured joint.
An common example of a proprioceptive or balance exercise is the use of
a balance or
wobble board after an ankle sprain.
The unpredictable movements of
the
balance board re-educates your body to quickly react to the wobbly
movements without having to
think about
these movements.
That is, your natural balance and proprioceptive
reactions that we are attempting to retrain make the transition from a conscious
to a subconscious state.
A quality subconscious proprioception and balance system is important
in everyday life and particularly in sport.
Elite athletes are not thinking about how to stay balanced as they pass
or kick a ball. That all happens automatically behind the scenes. The
best athletes can then elevate their performance by focusing on what
they plan to do with the ball and performing that match winning skill
rather than wasting their mental power on just staying upright.
How Does Your Proprioception or Balance Improve?
Proprioception
exercises are designed to improve your proprioception
feedback circle.
In simple terms, your brain sends
electrical contract or relax messages to your muscles.
Your joint movement response is detected by your sensory
nervous system and reported back to your brain
for fine tuning and improvement with repetition of the process.
In other words, perfect practise will eventually mean proprioception
perfection.
There are hundreds of injury specific proprioception and balance
exercises whether
your injury is your shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, ankle or spine.
It is best to see your trusted physiotherapist to ensure you are doing
the right things at the right time and not disrupting tissue repair. It
is possible to commence advanced proprioception or balance exercises too
early,
which can be detrimental to your rehabilitation outcome.
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