The sense of balance or equilibrioception is the perception of balance and spatial orientation. It helps prevent humans and nonhuman animals from falling...
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humans, including the vestibular system (sense of balance) sensed by the inner ear and providing the perception of spatial orientation; proprioception (body...
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Unilateral training (section Sense of balance)
their sense of balance, and helping to avoid or rehabilitate injury. Many sports require participants to perform actions with one limb instead of two....
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Vestibular system (redirect from Vestibular sense)
creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance. Together with the cochlea, a part of the auditory...
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their sense of balance and coordination before introducing pedalling, balance bikes enable independent riding more quickly than training wheels. Balance bikes...
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proprioception (the body's sense of where it is in space). Degeneration or loss of function in any of these systems can lead to balance deficits. Cognitive dysfunction...
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judge the slope of a surface, as a reliable reference point is missing, and misleading visual cues can adversely affect the sense of balance. Objects which...
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What is the sixth sense? Five senses (disambiguation) Sense of balance and proprioception (sense of body position), senses in addition to the usually considered...
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Horse (redirect from Cultural depictions of horses)
run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess a good sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee...
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Lightheadedness (category Symptoms and signs of mental disorders)
(vertigo). Most causes of lightheadedness are not serious and either cure themselves quickly or are easily treated. Keeping a sense of balance requires the brain...
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his innate sense of balance due to Parkinson's-like symptoms that have damaged his inner ears; the patient, comparing his sense of balance to a carpenter's...
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state coupled with a sense of balance or stability." Tenzin Gyatso, the current and 14th Dalai Lama, emphasizes the importance of inner peace in the world:...
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initially suffer a sudden injury of some sort to their vestibular system, the neurologic network that preserves sense of balance. Even after this initial injury...
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vigorous in denial of any lack of balance, the comparative media equality among all player brings change quickly, to further a sense of balance. The twentieth...
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Somatosensory system (redirect from Sense of touch)
the sense of balance resides in the vestibular system in the ear (for the three-dimensional orientation of the head, and by inference, the rest of the...
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the body and brain that create the sense of balance and that engineer the implementation of the act of balancing (inner ears, cerebellum, proprioceptors...
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Training wheels (section Replacement by balance bikes)
Since the late 1990s, balance bikes have gradually replaced training wheels as a more effective tool for developing a sense of balance. The American company...
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the main body, allow listeners to "take it all in", and "create a sense of balance." Codetta (Italian for "little tail", the diminutive form) has a similar...
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Sensory nervous system (redirect from Organs of sense)
taste, smell, balance and visceral sensation. Sense organs are transducers that convert data from the outer physical world to the realm of the mind where...
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Snoezelen (category Treatment of autism)
combination of different materials on a wall may be explored using tactile senses, and the floor may be adjusted to stimulate the sense of balance. The person...
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though he has always been portrayed as having a superhumanly enhanced sense of balance and coordination. In most cases, he is depicted as also possessing...
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Vertigo (category Symptoms and signs of mental disorders)
perceived motion Sense of balance, also known as Equilibrioception – Physiological sense regarding posture Spatial disorientation – Inability of a person to...
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international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference...
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Falling (sensation) (section Balance disorder)
are considered the most simple. Depersonalization Derealization Sense of balance "Balance Disorders". www.nidcd.nih.gov. April 2014. Retrieved 2015-10-01...
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accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual...
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Lena Headey (redirect from List of awards and nominations received by Lena Headey)
Headey turns in a powerful performance as Jonathan's wife, creating a sense of balance and normality against which other events are contrasted". Headey appeared...
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Thermoception (redirect from Sense of temperature)
types. The details of how temperature receptors work are still being investigated. Ciliopathy is associated with decreased ability to sense heat; thus cilia...
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cat can reflexively twist its body and right itself using its acute sense of balance and its flexibility. This is known as the cat's "righting reflex"....
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Head-carrying (redirect from Balancing on the head)
Africa. One observer during the American Civil War noted the impressive sense of balance and dexterity that the practice gave women in South Carolina: "I have...
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Meatloaf on his 1994 tour. The albums Mono and The Hearing and the Sense of Balance were released in the US with altered track lists. In 1996, Hannes Schäfer...
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