**Finger-nose-finger:**

The subject is asked to alternately touch their nose and the examiner's finger as fast as possible [3].

### **Distal proprioception test:**

The tester will be made to circulate the joints of the hip, knee ankle and big toe up and down as it is watched. Then ask the subject to repeat the equal movement together with eyes closed.

**10. Intervention**

• Hand pushes

• Hand pulls

**Chair based exercises**

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• Head compressions

• Theraband on chair

• Squeezing a stress ball

**Classroom based exercises**

• Lifting weights e.g. tins, books, dumbells

• Bouncing on therapy/exercise ball

• Throwing/catching weighted ball

• Gymnastics- handstands, cartwheels, using gym equipment

• Lying on stomach over exercise ball and weight-bearing through arms

• Chair push ups

• Wall pushes

• Jogging on the spot

• Push ups

• Star jumps

**Other exercises**

• Climbing wall bars/ropes

• Crawling obstacle course

• Jumping e.g. hop scotch

• Bouncing on space hopper

• Tug of war

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• Wheelbarrow walks

## **A contralateral joint matching task:**

Asking the affected person to match a verified joint angle, and measuring the distinction among the real joint angle, and the reproduced joint perspective.

### **Romberg's test:**

The affected person is requested to remove his/her footwear and stand with two feet together. The clinician asks the patient to first stand quietly with eyes open, and ultimately with eyes closed. The Romberg test is scored by counting the seconds the person is able to stand with eyes closed [3].

### **Spinal Motion Apparatus:**

This procedure developed by Pankhurst and writer for assessing the proprioception of lower back. It is composed of a motor operated device that produces passive motion of lumberspine in three planes whereas the trunk stayed fastened. The apparatus detects motion and identifies the neutral position and the direction of movement. It assesses movement in 3 planes as advantage, but the employment during a clinical population might not be possible because it utilizes the advanced equipment [17].

#### **Active Movement Extent Discrimination Device**:

Developed by Hobbs to assess lumbar proprioception. It depends on discriminating the position differences in 11–19° of lumbar flexion. It consists of free standing with stopper at five preset distances. The subject had to discriminate preset trained flexion positions while standing. The test's disadvantage is that the subject's head is also moving through the test so the vestibular system might be adding to the proprioception sense [18, 19].

#### **Cervicocephalic Kinesthesia:**

Kristjansson et al. described the test. It has fast track sensors. Various uses of the test described such as relocation of the head to the natural position after active turn to left and right or active relocation to 30° turn from the natural head position. Passive trunk rotation of 30° or figure of eight motion can also be used before subjects repositioning head to a natural position [8].

#### **Limb Position Copying and Reproducing Tests:**

Described by Kaplan [7]. This test can be used for assessing the proprioception of various joints such as knee or elbow. The test requires active reproduction of ipsiand contralateral positions of the limb. Goniometer measures the error between reproduction and the target.

#### **Precaution to overcome nomophobia in kids:**


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