Abstract: Procedural consolidation

Practice is vital to the acquisition of new skills, but the brain does not stop processing information when practice stops. After practice, changes take place that strengthen and modify the new skill. This is what raises  Edwin Robertson.
These changes, described under the umbrella term “consolidation”, take two distinct forms: the enhancement of skills and the stabilization of memories. Here we describe and evaluate the evidence for these types of consolidation.
Aims: in this study is to demostrate that the practice is vital for the acquisition of new skills and through this you can achieve better motor skills. Trough consolidation, a new, initially fragile memory is transformed into a robust and stable memory.
Methods: we performed the same task in 20 individuals, after a while practice is going to measure whether learning levels change over time.
Results: experiment in this group of people, got the expected result, wich improves motor skills with the practice of the task that had to do these 20 people during periods of time.
Conclusion: the best way to improve the hability of motor activity to perform a task, is to practice this task many times for the brain to be able to improve and save new skill.

Aquatic physical therapy

In my oral presentation I will talk about aquatic physical therapy. This is one area of physical therapy in which the patient can do exercises in the water and this form improves the physical condition. This therapy in the water serves for different physical disorders in different types of people, such as infant and old people, and it is perfect to people with important disorders because aquatic therapy use the resistance of water instead of weights. It aims to rehabilitate patients after injury or those with chronic illness, avoiding the amount of weight placed on the joints by exercise outside the water.

About me...

Hello, my name is Gissell Gamboa, a student of physical-therapy. I'm 21 years old and I left villa el sol 4 years ago. I was born in Santiago and I live in La Cisterna. I like read and listen to music.

It's the first time I have a blog, it's new for me so I don't know how to use it well. Really, I prefer facebook, it's more interactive.

In relation with the course, I hope get better talking english because in my school it's not good and I'don't learn too much. I hope have good times with the classmates too.