Article by Beppe Cart
The latest methods of proprioceptive gymnastics have two fundamental objectives: postural statics and controlled mobilization of the spinal column. They originate from the fact that the natural movements of man need the activation of an abnormal number of motivated stimulation mechanisms, of an examination and supervision of the higher centers, of commands that are addressed to the muscle chains solicited which operate in an integrated manner. . In the "execution of a simple movement, a muscle" collaborates immediately with its antagonist, at great speed it informs our CNS about the speed of execution of the movement, moderating the force to be imposed, so the one is the regulator of the other.
The aforementioned methods have the task of re-educating "the man as a whole" and of making the subject aware of the movements adopted before the disabling moment. Using re-education with proprioception means starting from the "assumption that" the stimulus is proper to the "individual himself and arises from his own biological structures" (P. Rabischong) and "that precedes the" action ": according to Anochin, the "beginning of a" motor action is preceded by activating (triggering) afferents and (environmental) situations; J. P. Blénton highlighted the anticipatory nature of the motor postural protocol, in fact the latter "anticipates the implementation of the voluntary gesture by a few milliseconds". Rather than carrying out cortical movements, stimuli (tractions, pressures) and techniques of an unbalancing type are used that are able to induce the desired activity. engine attempt of the agonist. We will then have the concept of "execution servosystems"; no longer open system motor control (input signal-motor neuron-muscle fiber) but a feedback device (input signal-motor neuron-muscle fiber-proprioceptor organs-neurons of the spinal ganglia-motor neuron).
Neuromotor re-education aims to act on proprioceptors, which have a leading role in the realization of the movement.
