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Ski Trainer Oscillating Platform : Proprioceptive Reeducation
No full textReeducation of the proprioceptive reflexes is especially indicated in posttraumatic disequilibrium. This method uses the theoretical premises of the method known as “proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation” by (1) the use of nervous information of surface origin (tactile data) and (2) coordination of the information of deep origin (joint place, stretching of tendons, and capsuloligamentous complexes)
Management and Treatment of WAD Patients : Conclusive Remarks
No full textWhiplash-associated disorder (WAD) represents a significant public health problem, resulting in a substantial socioeconomic burden throughout the industrialised world, wherever costs are documented
Vestibular Electrical Stimulation
No full textPeripheral proprioceptors of the muscles and the joints have a feedback control on the vestibular nuclei through the spino-vestibular pathways. Neuromuscular spindles and Golgi receptors are dynamometers and they are particularly sensitive to variations in muscle length and tension. Joint receptors, Ruffini and Golgi bodies, give information regarding the position of a joint and its movement. The portion of the neck including the first three vertebrae is particularly involved during the major part of everyday head movements [1, 2]
Abducting Interocular Ophthalmoplegia After Whiplash Injuries
No full textInternuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) is a well recognisable disorder of horizontal eye movements, and it is a common finding in neurological disorders [1]. INO is due to a functional impairment of the medial longitudinal fascicle (MLF) ipsilateral to the medial rectus paresis. Generally INO is characterised by the impairment of adduction of the eye on the side of the impaired MLF and abduction overshoot. The electro-oculographic saccadic and gaze nystagmus patterns are typic
Whiplash-Associated Equilibrium Disturbances (WAED) Rehabilitation : Vestibular Re-education and Vestibular Rehabilitation
No full textThe human equilibrium system derives much of its strength and plasticity from the fact that the specific neuronal and growing software is moulded in childhood during the maturation phase, under the influence of permanent information from the world we live in. The software overlying the structural, sensorial and central nervous hardware creates the so-called space concept within the brain. Post-whiplash failures of the sensory inputs as well as of the central equilibrium regulation may lead to vertigo, blurred vision, static and/or dynamic head and body instability. The system has many inborn possibilities for internal stabilization and compensation; in fact after injuries there are different neurophysiological phenomena involved in the restoration of the equilibrium function [1, 2]
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