Coordination Facts
- Coordination means balanced or skillful movement.
- To make you move, your brain has to send signals out along nerves telling all the muscles involved exactly what to do.
- Co-ordination of the muscles is handled by the cerebellum at the back of your brain (see the brain).
- The cerebellum is given instructions by the brain’s motor cortex (see the cortex).
- The cerebellum sends its commands via the basal ganglia in the middle of the brain.
- Proprioceptors are nerve cells that are sensitive to movement, pressure or stretching. Proprioceptor means ‘one’s own sensors.
- Proprioceptors are all over your body – in muscles, tendons and joints – and they all send signals to your brain telling it the position or posture of every part of your body.
- The hair cells in the balance organs of your ear are also proprioceptors (see balance).
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