Home Sensory Motor Problems Sensory motor problems may affect a number of areas involving movement in space. Processing problems with vestibular information may cause difficulties with posture, balance, and muscle tone.
Proprioception involves the sense of where the body is in space.
Some persons with difficulty in this area may have trouble with gait, possibly toe walking. Fine motor problems may be caused by difficulties in motor planning and sequencing of movements. Those people with fragile X syndrome, who have difficulties in vestibular or proprioceptive processing, may not have a good sense of themselves in space. Their posture, eye movements, and gait may be unusual. These movements seem to have a calming and organizing influence on the sensory system.