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“Paradise Room”
Published in Paul A. Rodgers, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2022
During our visits, we interviewed care home staff, including activity coordinators, care workers, and managers. These conversations were often welcomed as an opportunity for reflection, voicing concerns, observations, and discussing ideas – in particular, by activity coordinators. Following thematic analysis of the interviews, it emerged that staff acknowledged the actual and potential benefits of sensory stimulation and the sensory room, especially for people in the later stages of dementia who “…should be using the room daily, because this would be their activity”. Usually a calm space, it helped reduce agitation and anxiety for some residents making them feel more relaxed. Further, staff recognised that being engaged with residents in sensory activities enhanced or can enhance their relationship contributing to job satisfaction (“It gives me real pleasure to see a resident taking part in something”; “You learn more about the person… different view of residents”; and “I feel I can help the residents”). It was also appreciated that the sensory room potentially can offer a space of “…completely different vibe to the lounge”, away from bedrooms and other communal areas – “a destination with a purpose so residents are more encouraged and focused to take part in activity” and “a special room with staff giving special time to residents”. “Especially during Winter times the room is very important; then this is the place you can come”. (All quotes are taken from the transcribed interviews.)
Stimulating sensory and body awareness
Published in Chia Swee Hong, Heidi Rumford, Alex Cole, Sensory Motor Activities for Early Development, 2020
Chia Swee Hong, Heidi Rumford, Alex Cole
Sensory stimulation is a technique that attempts to stimulate the child’s senses – tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory – through a variety of sensory stimuli (which are the focus of the activities within this book).
Frailty and multimorbidity
Published in Christopher Dowrick, Global Primary Mental Health Care, 2019
Christos Lionis, Marientina Gotsis
Which two of these therapeutic strategies are least appropriate for the aforementioned clinical case of the 85-year-old woman in her current state? Expressive arts therapy.Horse therapy.Individual psychotherapy.Group dance.Sensory stimulation.
Investigation of the effectiveness of family collaborative physiotherapy programs applied to high-risk infants
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2023
Hatice Adiguzel, Yusuf Unal Sarikabadayi, Bulent Elbasan
Physiotherapy principles were active weight transfer, symmetry in alignment, midline orientation, and the activation of extensor antigravity muscles. The family was encouraged to apply a “hands-off” strategy to allow the infant to achieve the movements independently. Age-appropriate toys, materials, and family interactions were used for stimulation. Time spent in various positions supported motor development. Sensory stimulation was provided through a variety of toys with sound, light and vibration, tactile contact, speech, and singing. Active visual stimulation, deep active proprioceptive stimuli, touching with rhythmic tactile stimuli, and active mild rhythmic vestibular stimulations were recommended. Differences in early intervention protocols are outlined in Figure 2.
Evaluating sensory profiles in nociplastic chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional validation study
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2022
Pieter J Gräper, Jacqui R Clark, Bronwyn L Thompson, Joannes M Hallegraeff
As was expected and confirmed by these results, Sensation Seeking is not positively associated with state and trait anxiety, depression, and coping behavior. Individuals with this sensory profile seek sensory stimulation rather than avoid it, and thus, this result is in line with our hypothesis (Brown et al., 2001; Dunn, 1997). Individuals with anxiety and depressive symptoms tend to avoid sensory stimuli (Engel-Yeger et al., 2018; Generaal et al., 2014), and our results also confirmed this. The majority of the participants described themselves as being physically active, thereby participating in several sports, and they also described their work as “sometimes physically demanding,” or “physically demanding.” This is in line with the predictions associated with individuals with Low Registration and Sensation Seeking profiles; specifically, individuals with Low Registration and Sensation Seeking profiles tend to require high sensory input levels to function healthily unlike those with the Sensation Avoiding profile who tend to limit their exposure to sensory stimuli (Brown et al., 2001; Dunn, 1997). In contrast to this, patients with CLBP who scored high on the Sensation Avoiding profile may tend to avoid over-stimulating environments.
How Does Our Brain Generate Sexual Pleasure?
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2021
Barry R. Komisaruk, Maria Cruz Rodriguez del Cerro
Extrapolating this principle, sensory stimulation is of fundamental importance for the function of the nervous system, and consequently for our existence. Kaufman (1960, p. 321) made the following insightful observation: “Most gratifications are in fact derived from stimulation, not the lack of it.…Freud said that the child sought this experience (nursing) again for the pleasurable state it produced, which it should be noted is a state of stimulation.” Under conditions of severe sensory deprivation, our brain generates neuronal activation in the form of hallucinations (Mason & Brady, 2009). We crave sensory stimulation. In the absence or perceived inadequate level of stimulation from our environment, physical or social, we seek it. An actual hug or its myriad physical stimulation equivalents (idiosyncratic) or social symbolic or metaphorical equivalents (e.g. phone call from a loved one) can provide the sensory stimulation or the related cognitive neuronal activity (excitation). If we can’t get that, we give it to ourselves.