The available sensorimotor exercises on our platform
The key sensorimotor rehabilitation exercises used to improve neck function, including Butterfly, Butterfly Visible Path, Joint Position Error (JPE), and Dot Hunt.
Butterfly
What does it train?
Motor control and coordination between eye and head movements
Who should do this exercise?
Patients with poor performance on the Butterfly Test should perform this exercise, focusing on the specific difficulty path where they performed poorly
How do I scale the difficulty?
For an easier version: Butterfly Visible Path
For a harder version: Have the patient stand when doing the exercise
Butterfly Visible Path
What does it train?
Motor control
Depends less on eye-head coordination compared to the Butterfly exercise, since the path is visible and the patient can anticipate the movement of the target
Who should do this exercise?
Patients with poor performance on the Butterfly test who struggle with the conventional Butterfly exercises, either due to symptom exacerbation or poor performanceHow do I scale the difficulty?
For a harder version: Have the patient stand when doing the exercise, or progress to the Butterfly exercise with an invisible path
Joint Position Error
What does it train?
Proprioception of the neck (position sense)
Who should do this exercise?
Patients with poor performance on the JPE test should perform this exercise in the specific directions where they performed poorly
How do I scale the difficulty?
For an easier version: Have the patient relocate their head with eyes open
For a harder version: Use the offset feature, the patient begins at 20° or 40° from the neutral position, and then attempts to relocate back to the offset position
Dot Hunt
What does it train?
Coordination between eye and head movements
Who should do this exercise?
Patients with poor performance on the Butterfly Test, since eye-head coordination is a big component of the Butterfly Test
How do I scale the difficulty?
Use the easy, medium, and hard features