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The available sensorimotor exercises on our platform

The key sensorimotor rehabilitation exercises designed to train neck motor control, proprioception and eye-head coordination: Butterfly, Butterfly Visible Path, Joint Position Error (JPE), and Dot Hunt.

Butterfly

What does it train?

Movement sense, gaze stability, and coordination between eye and head movements.

 

Who should do this exercise?

Consider this exercise for patients with poor performance on the Butterfly Test, 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 (in-clinic only, under clinician supervision).

 

Butterfly Visible Path

What does it train?

Movement sense, gaze stability, and coordination between eye and head movements.

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?

Consider this exercise for patients with poor performance on the Butterfly Test who struggle with the standard Butterfly exercise, either due to symptom exacerbation or poor performance.

How do I scale the difficulty?

For a harder version: Progress to the Butterfly exercise with an invisible path, or have the patient stand when doing the exercise (in-clinic only, under clinician supervision).

 

Joint Position Error

What does it train?

Proprioception of the neck (position sense)

 

Who should do this exercise?

Consider this exercise for patients with poor performance on the JPE Test, 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 (20° in-clinic or in NeckCare Home; 40° in-clinic only). The target is shifted from the neutral position, and the patient relocates their head to the offset target.

 

Dot Hunt

What does it train?

Coordination between eye and head movements

 

Who should do this exercise?

Consider this exercise for patients with poor performance on the Butterfly Test, since the Butterfly Test also relies on eye-head coordination

 

How do I scale the difficulty?

Use the easy, medium, and hard levels