Check to see if there's anything you might knock over on your way up. About to climb stairs in high heels? Slow your pace and watch your footing. Do one thing at a time, simple as that. You know those stories about amazing athletes who join a game of beach volleyball, or start fooling around on a skateboard, and end up blowing out an ankle or knee? Clumsiness is often the result of diving into a brand new activity too quickly, Swanik says.
Swanik has seen this in research on collegiate athletes who are starting a cross-training regimen. The takeaway: If you're a a die-hard runner about to hop on a spin bike for the first time, ease your way into the new workout, and recognize that the movements may not be what your body is used to.
By Jacqueline Andriakos Updated December 29, Save Pin FB More. Stroke kills more people each year than breast, lung and bowel cancer combined. Of those who survive, 65pc will make a reasonable recovery.
Prevention is best but every minute counts. If you think someone you know is having a stroke, call an ambulance. Don't delay. If clumsiness onset occurs more gradually but is consistent, other types of brain injury, tumour or illness should be considered.
Your GP can do a full neurological exam and refer you for a brain scan or to see a specialist as appropriate. Clumsiness associated with forgetfulness can be a sign of stress, especially if it is worse in stressful situations. These symptoms, without any obvious link, much more rarely can be a sign of early-onset Alzheimer's. If no sinister or serious cause is found, it may simply be that the co-ordination between your eyes, brain and musculoskeletal system is not what it should be.
Get the best home, property and gardening stories straight to your inbox every Saturday. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. There are physiotherapists who can prescribe specific exercises to improve your eye-muscle co-ordination.
In this instance, exercise and a healthy, toned muscle system can improve the situation greatly. Q My toddler sounds very nasal and when she tries to say 's', the sound seems to come from her nose. Is there something wrong with her? A It sounds as if she may have enlarged adenoids.
Adenoids are lymph tissue, similar to tonsils, but are located high at the top of the throat behind the nose. Unlike tonsils, they are not visible on an examination of the mouth. Adenoids, like tonsils, help our bodies fight infection. They are very active early in life and can become quite enlarged. They usually start to shrink from about five years of age, almost disappearing by the teen years.
Enlarged adenoids can cause a nasal tone to the voice. Other symptoms may include mouth breathing - leading to a dry mouth and cracked lips - along with snoring, noisy breathing or restless sleep. The third co-author, Christopher C. When tested on a series of simple tasks involving hand movements, young people in this study adopted an attentional reference frame centered on the hand, while older study participants adopted a reference frame centered on the body. Young adults, the researchers explain, have been shown to use an "action-centered" reference frame that is sensitive to the movements they are making.
So, when young people move their hands to pick up an object, they remain aware of and sensitive to potential obstacles along the movement path. Older adults, on the other hand, tend to devote more attention to objects that are closer to their bodies -- whether they are on the action path or not.
Instead they use a "body centered" one," Bloesch said. These findings mesh well with other research that has documented age-related physical declines in several areas of the brain that are responsible for hand-eye coordination.
Older adults exhibit volumetric declines in the parietal cortex and intraparietal sulcus, as well as white-matter loss in the parietal lobe and precuneus. These declines may make the use of an action-centered reference frame difficult or impossible.
These neurological changes in older adults suggest that their representations of the space around them may be compromised relative to those of young adults and that, consequently, young and older adults might encode and attend to near-body space in fundamentally different ways," the study finds. As the U. An estimated to percent of the elderly population reports difficulty with activities of daily living, such as eating and bathing and many show deficiencies in performing goal-directed hand movements.
Knowing more about these aging-related changes in spatial representation, the researchers suggest, may eventually inspire options for skills training and other therapies to help seniors compensate for the cognitive declines that influence hand-eye coordination.
0コメント