Quote:
Originally Posted by BEMM
It seems to me that the slight but widespread pressure on the skin must realert the brain to the existense of the part of the body that is being touched. The touch wakes up the brain which otherwise progressively neglects or forgets or abandons one part of the body after another. Paralysis agitans is really a perfect name for this crazy dis ease.
|
That makes alot of sense to me. I don't think the scarf or shoelace restricts my muscles in any way. Instead it's like a sensory alert. I think it alerts a different brain pathway, which compensates for our missing internal cues. We need an external cue to get our motor system to behave properly.
When my face is masked, it seems like jaw muscles are pulling my face down. BUT, it's also true that the upper muscles of my face are not working as they should!
With a scarf on my head, the upper muscles work, and lift my whole face up, and I can smile, grin, again.