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Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy: The Research

Excerpts from over 40 years of research that led to the discovery of a previously unknown source of chronic muscle and joint pain and a solution to permanently eliminate it without drugs or surgery. To learn more go to http://www. RothbartSite.com

What is Proprioception?

Throughout my patient and research websites you will find me continually using the terms proprioception and proprioceptive: proprioceptive therapy, proprioceptive insoles, etc. What exactly do these terms mean?

Proprio comes from the latin word proprius, meaning “one’s own” and perception is the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body.

Proprioception is a distinct sensory feedback mechanism that provides information to the brain on the internal status of the body. The sense of proprioception determines whether the body is moving, and where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other (e.g., the body’s posture).

The body’s sense of proprioception was originally described in 1557 by Julius Scaliger. In 1826 Charles Bell expounded the idea of proprioception to include a ‘muscle sense’. Bell suggested that commands (move here, lift this, etc) are transmitted from the brain to the muscles. And that the muscles, in return, send information to the brain on their state of elasticity (e.g., are they stretched or are they contracted). That is, Bell described the body’s sense of proprioception as a two-way avenue of communication.

Now let’s look at the terms Proprioceptive Therapy and Proprioceptive Insoles

Proprioceptive Therapy

Proprioceptive Therapy and more specifically, Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy, is a type of therapy that improves the body’s overall posture, which in turn, eliminates or greatly reduces chronic muscle and joint pain.

Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy involves:

(1) A complete medical history, body system review and foot to head examination to determine if the patient has one of the two inherited, abnormal foot structures (the Rothbarts Foot or the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity) that causes bad posture and leads to chronic muscle and joint pain.

(2) Extensive Computerized Postural Analyses to determine which of the two foot structures the patient has.

(3) Design and fabrication of prescriptive proprioceptive insoles to correct the patient’s posture, which will permanently eliminate or greatly reduce their chronic musculoskeletal pain.

(4) Ongoing Treatment and Monitoring to address issues that can arise, which may impede the healing process.

Proprioceptive Insoles

Proprioceptive insoles change the body’s global posture by sending signals from the feet to the cerebellum. The cerebellum acts on these signals and automatically makes a global correction in the body’s posture.

I invented and patented Rothbart Proprioceptive Insoles to change the body’s posture in a specific and predetermined fashion, in order to eliminate chronic musculoskeletal pain. Rothbart Proprioceptive Insoles are custom designed (prescriptive) based on the results of extensive computer analyses of the patient’s posture.

For more information on Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy, go to Rothbart’s Therapy

For information on the difference between Rothbart Proprioceptive Insoles and orthotics, read Rothbart Insoles And Orthotics Are Totally Different In Design And Function

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Professor/Dr. Brian A. Rothbart
Chronic Pain Elimination Specialist
Discovered the Rothbarts Foot and PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity
Developer of Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy
Designer of Rothbart Proprioceptive Insoles
Founder of International Academy of Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy
Author of Forever Free From Chronic Pain