Sensory impairments caused by neurological or physical disorders hamper kinesthesia, making rehabilitation difficult. In order to overcome this problem, we proposed and developed a novel biofeedback prosthesis called Auditory Foot for transforming sensory modalities, in which the sensor prosthesis transforms plantar sensations to auditory feedback signals. This study investigated the short-term...

Learning to write is an important occupation of children [5, 10]. Problems with handwriting or drawing skills (graphomotor skills) are frequently the reason children in public schools are referred to occupational therapy services [8], [9]. There are five identified components that contribute to the quality of handwriting: kinesthesia, motor planning, eye-hand coordination, visuomotor integratio...

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a home-based kinesthesia, balance and agility (KBA) exercise program to improve symptoms among persons age ≥ 50 years with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Forty-four persons were randomly assigned to 8-weeks, 3 times per week KBA, resistance training (RT), KBA + RT, or Control. KBA utilized walking agility exercises and single-leg static and ...

Case Report A 39-year-old, right-handed man was admitted to our hospital because of sudden onset of right hemiparesis and aphasia. His medical history included atopic dermatitis, and included no episodes of trauma. He was alert on admission; however, his speech and comprehension were impaired, and was assessed a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of 15. Brain computed tomography s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cervicocephalic kinesthetic sensibility, active range of cervical motion, and oculomotor function in patients with whiplash injury. DESIGN A 2-year review of consecutive patients admitted to the emergency unit after whiplash injury. SETTING An otorhinolaryngology department. PATIENTS AND SUBJECTS Twenty-seven consecutive patients with diagnosed whiplash injury (14...

Perception is an intentional action through space in time by which the finite brain explores the infinite world. By acting, the brain thrusts its body into the future space-time of the world while predicting the sensory consequences. Through perceiving its actions and their results, it remembers its predictions, its actions, and their consequences. To perform these operations the brain, through...

When both visual and kinesthetic information of a limb are available, vision is usually the dominant source of information used to perceive the spatial location. In this study, we conducted behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments to examine the brain mechanisms underlying the visual dominance over kinesthesia in perceiving the position of a hand. We used tendon v...