Posts Tagged ‘physiology’
Movement cancer
It starts small. An ankle sprain when you’re twenty. After three weeks, it feels better so you move on, but with an almost imperceptible decrease of 10° in dorsiflexion. Every cycle of three weeks thereafter comes another layer of the compensation as the nervous system adapts to the altered ground reaction forces. A neuroplastic adaptation…
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30 trillion cells, one common purpose
You not only have a body. You have thirty trillion cells. You not only have a purpose. You are the common purpose of your cells. You not only have a self. You are a cell in the body of Self. We have a common purpose.
Read MoreYour body is a machine, kinda.
Muscles are motors. Tendons are ropes. Bones are levers. Joint capsules are feedback receptors. Pull here. That moves there. But not really. The brain is a computer. The nerves are wires. The skull and spinal cord are conduits. Information goes up. Algorithmic processing occurs. Results are determined. Decisions are made. Signals for action are sent…
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