to live as normal a life as possible.
His courageous determination to
carry on led to many studies into
his condition, books being written
about him and an illuminating BBC
documentary of his struggles - The
Man Who Lost His Body.
Being an unconscious function of the
body it is hard to imagine what crippling damage a lack of proprioception can cause. Proprioception comes
from the nervous system as a whole,
with the input from nerves inside the
body. Even if we close our eyes we
have a sense of body position. Lying
in bed we know where exactly we
are in the bed. All our muscles and
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