Research on the brain has been conducted for a very long time. Thanks to the studies, most of us know that the brain is a very important part of our body.

Delicate Movements are More Effective for Changes in the Brain

Delicate Movements are More Effective for Changes in the Brain


Research on the brain has been conducted for a very long time. Thanks to the
studies, most of us now know that the brain is a very important part of our
body. In the initial stage of brain studies, Frisch and Hitzig conducted their
research on the brains of dogs. They engaged in experiments with the dog brains
and were the first to prove that the right hemisphere is responsible for the
left set of limbs and the left hemisphere responsible for the right.

Initially, the research was mainly conducted on dogs and cats, and thereafter on
primates that resemble human beings. An iconic researcher of the field is
Sherrington. He conducted his research on monkeys and found parts of the brain
that control each of the movements through electric stimulation on the motor
area of the cerebral cortex.

Recently, a researcher named Penfield, also a student of Sherrington, conducted
the same research used on monkeys to study areas of the brain controlling
movement, but this time on actual human beings.

Upon such findings, most parts of the motor area of human’s cerebral cortex were
found, but new questions started to form. A question was posed on whether the
movements in the motor area were for the control of individual muscles or for
the control of a set of multiple muscles needed for a specific movement.

A monkey was given instructions to make a delicate fist clench and a strong fist
clench, for which the activity of muscles and the activity of the motor area in
the cerebral cortex were both measured.



Results showed that there was no significant difference in the muscle activity
for the delicate and strong clenches, but the activity of the motor area in the
cerebral cortex was greater for the delicate clench than for the strong clench.
It concludes that for the activation or changes in the motor area of the
cerebral cortex in the brain, delicate movements may induce greater changes than
simple movements can.

If your sole purpose is to strengthen your muscles, simple movements would also
be effective, but delicate movements would be more helpful in inducing changes
in the brain. As such, wouldn’t the repetition of delicate movements bring about
better results than simple movements also in rehabilitation training? Visit our
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Consider functional things that you can do with your affected side. Get out of the habit of moving your affected side with your "good" or non-affected side.

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With repetition as one of the main keys to improving movement, it’s important to 
consider creative ways to incorporate repetition into your daily rehabilitation
routine. Using virtual reality rehab devices such as the Neofect Smart Glove
[https://www.neofect.com/us/smart-glove] and Neofect Smart Board
[https://www.neofect.com/us/smart-board] can increase repetition 10x (250-300
repetitions) in the same amount of time as an outpatient therapy session (32
repetitions).



Here are four other ways that you can work on incorporating more repetition into
your daily rehabilitation routine:
 1. Consider functional things that you can do with your affected side. Even if
    it seems insignificant, something like using your affected side to turn on
    and off a light switch or open the fridge every time you do it, reinforces
    voluntary repetition. This idea of “forced-use” helps to reorganize the
    brain and recreate pathways to improve motor control. Additional repetition
    of functional movement can be added to your routine at home by using the
    Neofect Smart Glove or Smart Board. Virtual reality solutions like the 
    Neofect Smart Rehab devices [https://www.neofect.com/us] can encourage 10x
    more repetitions than traditional therapy sessions alone.
    
    
 2. Get out of the habit of moving your affected side with your “good” or
    non-affected side. For repositioning needs, try to move the side affected by
    the stroke on its own first before jumping in to “help”. It’s really easy to
    fall into “learned non-use” where your brain starts to forget about your
    affected side based on avoiding it as part of your daily routine. Force it
    to do as much active work as you can on a daily basis.
    
    



 3. Visualization has been proven to be an effective technique for motor
    improvement, even if you don’t have the functional movement to do the task
    itself. Visualization has long been used by high level athletes as a tactic
    for working toward maximizing their performance. For individuals that have
    had strokes, visualization of a particular activity such as raising the arm
    or leg, sends blood flow to the area of the brain responsible for that
    motion, activating that area.
    
    
 4. Mirror box therapy can also be effective in using the mirror neurons of the
    brain to trick the brain into thinking that the affected side is moving in a
    normal manner. In a review of studies on mirror therapy compared to other
    interventions, mirror therapy was shown to have a significant effect on
    motor function as well as pain and visual neglect.
    
    


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Lang, Catherine E et al. “Observation of amounts of movement practice provided
during stroke rehabilitation.” Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
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