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Balance and Proprioception: Single-Leg Balance with Head Rotation balance and proprioception Jan 29, 2024

The Single-Leg Balance with Head Rotation is an exercise commonly used in physical therapy, rehabilitation, and fitness training. It involves standing on one leg while rotating your head and neck in different directions. This exercise helps improve balance, stability, and coordination while also...

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Balance and Proprioception: Single-Leg Balance with Head Up & Down balance and proprioception Jan 15, 2024

The "Single Leg Balance with Head Up and Down" is an exercise that combines balancing on one leg with controlled head movements in the up and down directions. This exercise is often used in fitness and rehabilitation to improve balance, stability, proprioception, and core strength. It challenges...

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Balance and Proprioception: Upper Quarter Y Balance Test balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Upper Quarter Y Balance Test (UQYBT) is an easy to perform test that places the patient or client into a closed chain push up position performing 3 reaches in the medial, superolateral and inferolateral directions.

This test assesses the shoulder girdle and core...

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Balance and Proprioception: Star Excursion Sitting Test (SEST) balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Star Excursion Sitting Test (SEST) is a novel test for examining trunk and postural control expressed as the maximum distance that participants can reach with their hands while in a sitting position. 

Research investigating this test found that there was little correlation...

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Balance and Proprioception: Single-Leg Balance - Eyes Closed balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Eyes Closed Single Leg Balance Test is a clinical test used to assess an individual's ability to maintain balance while standing on one leg with their eyes closed. The test is commonly used in rehabilitation and sports medicine settings to evaluate balance and proprioception (the ability to...

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Balance and Proprioception: Single-Leg Balance - Eyes Open balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Eyes Open Single Leg Balance Test is a clinical test used to assess an individual's ability to maintain balance on one leg with their eyes open. The test is commonly used in physical therapy, sports medicine, and geriatric rehabilitation to evaluate an individual's proprioceptive and...

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Balance and Proprioception: Y-Balance Test balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Y-Balance Test (YBT) is a movement assessment tool used by healthcare professionals to evaluate an individual's dynamic balance, proprioception, and functional movement patterns. It involves performing a series of upper and lower extremity reach tests in three different directions, forming a...

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Balance and Proprioception: Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) balance and proprioception May 22, 2023

The Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) is one of our favourite tests and one of the major reasons we developed the MAT to rid the world of ugly pieces of sports tape stuck to the floor of clinics and gyms everywhere. 

This assessment has been well researched to demonstrate high inter and...

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