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Ideokinesis is an approach to improving posture, alignment, and fluency of movement through structured guided imagery [1] that uses metaphors, such as visualizing an object moving in a specific direction along various muscle groups throughout the body, while lying completely still.
Kinesiology (from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis) ' movement ' and -λογία-logía ' study of ') is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, pathological, neuropsychological principles and mechanisms of movement.
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Kinesiotherapy or Kinesitherapy or kinesiatrics (kinēsis, "movement"), literally "movement therapy", is the therapeutic treatment of disease by passive and active muscular movements (as by massage) and of exercise.
This generalization, however, still leaves a need for more complex models to distinguish the more nuanced pathologies of the numerous diverse hyperkinesias which are still being studied today. [ 23 ] In the 2nd century, Galen was the first to define tremor as "involuntary alternating up-and-down motion of the limbs."
Greek for end in this sense is telos, a component word in entelecheia (a work that is the proper end of a thing) and also teleology. This is an aspect of Aristotle's theory of four causes and specifically of formal cause ( eidos , which Aristotle says is energeia [ 25 ] ) and final cause ( telos ).
On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus Ancient Greek ostraca voting for the ostracization of Themistocles in 482 BC. An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.
Kinetic (Ancient Greek: κίνησις “kinesis”, movement or to move) may refer to: Kinetic theory, describing a gas as particles in random motion; Kinetic energy, the energy of an object that it possesses due to its motion