Comments below:
> --- "Mesner, Simon"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I wonder, however, if the isolated muscle activity
> > techniques may provide
> > benefit by enhancing proprioception from that area,
> > particularly if that
> > area has a poor spatial representation in the
> > sensory cortex.
> >
> > What do you and does every one else think?
>
> To answer your question, or at least to try to, I
> would ask:
>
> Can you enhance proprioception selectively from one
> area or is it always simultaneously enhancing the
> proprioception of other areas as well?
>
> I wonder if the body is more complicated than isolated
> specificity.
>
> Noemi
It is very clear from my clinical experience with biofeedback
with pain patients that many learn to selectively block
proprioception from one or another area of the body (as a
defense against feeling localized pain). Perception of
bodily signals is largely a LEARNED phenomenon,
subject to unlearning and relearning. By focusing
attention on the area, proprioception can be relearned.
Proprioception is clearly learned through practice. I
realized this watching my first wife learn to play classical
guitar. With practice you get better at feeling where your
fingers are, and how many strings you are pressing. Me,
I never devoted enough energy to it. <g>
John
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