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🏃♀️Runner’s dystonia treatment nugget: sensory training
When we see someone with runner’s dystonia (and many kinds of dystonia, actually), the person will often report “not feeling their leg” well. And this can leave them feeling like they have no control or maybe even a sense of “floppiness”.
Have you heard that before?
That is a big clue that there is a sensory issue and you need to explore this part of the pie chart with them
They may not have a frank sensory loss, but they may have a loss of discrimination or localization. Testing discrimination, localization, proprioception, and kinesthesia are all very important.
And weight can be very helpful in treatment.
Like adding resistance band during running as Ava did here. The dystonia was virtually gone.
A weighted vest can also be helpful. We liked the vest in the case, but it wasn’t quite enough. (The combo of the weighted vest and hip resistance were very helpful, though)
Good news is that this type of sensory training also addresses some of the biomechanical and strength issues that we see underlying the dystonia. So there you go-two pieces of the pie with one intervention!
What are your favorite sensory training tools? Comment below 👇🏽 👇🏽👇🏽
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29 сен 2023
