Low pulse rate ( 60 - 100 cps) vibration also appears to provide helpful deep sensory information as to muscle awareness and location for improved activation . The positive response of even very young children to this type of vibration, especially that with a very strong, almost obnoxious beat, has prompted our curiosity and informal exploration of sensory deficits being major contributors to motor control problems. For a long time, many manual neuromuscular treatment systems have used various types of manual inputs which produced among other things, changes in muscle and joint pressures, mechanical displacement of skin and changes in limb, joint and body alignment. Attempts to explain changes in motor activity with specific input have probably been limited at best. It may be time with our new understandings of dynamical systems organization to revisit some of these treatment modalities and try to understand how they might be contributing to any changes seen.

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