Proprioception is the sense of position, posture and motion.
It gives us our body awareness. We don't need to see how our body is in order for us to move. We just feel it, and we move. It happens below our conscious level. By feeling itself, our body is able to self-adjust and correct so we can have balance and motor coordination.
There is constant information coming from our body’s sensory receptors. What are these receptors? They are switches that are distributed in our body, and especially in our fascial system*, that sense mechanical stimulation. They are called mechanoreceptors.
Imagine a switch that turns on a light. The switch (the receptor) is attached to the wall (the fascia) and you need to click on it (the mechanical stimulation) so the cable (the nerve) can turn on the light in the ceiling (the brain). The same way, our brain needs these “lights” to understand what is happening in our body.
In this video we revise these mechanoreceptors and the different information they sense.
In our next blog post, we will talk about the relation between fascia and proprioception. We covered this in a previous post as well.
To start doing fascia therapy with your child, learn the first exercise to improve torso control here.
WeFlow´s tip for you!
Deep but gentle pressure is a great way to create awareness of one specific body part. You can use a sock to wrap your child’s hands and send more signals of the hands to the brain.
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