Proprioception refers to the awareness of the position and movements of one’s body. Proprioception plays a critical role in motor planning and execution – it allows us to walk without consciously ...

Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...

1 School of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: M de Noronha School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, ...

Proprioception is the imperceptible and invisible sense, often referred to as the unconscious sixth sense. It relies on mechanosensory neurons located within muscles, tendons and joints and, as such, ...

Understanding proprioception can help to interpret how correct movement requires well-organized, accurate signals from the muscles firing to the brain. These pointers can be easily manipulated simply ...

Fabrice Sarlegna has received funding from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University. Chris Miall receives funding from the NIH and the Leverhulme Foundation. He has also been funded by the Royal Society ...

Low back pain in the elderly is the result of poor 'proprioception,' or the body's ability to perceive its own position in space, caused by a deterioration of sensory receptors in their muscles called ...

Low back pain in the elderly is the result of poor “proprioception,” or the body’s ability to perceive its own position in space, caused by a deterioration of sensory receptors in their muscles called ...

Background Proprioception is a specialized variation of the sensory modality of touch that includes the sensation of joint motion and joint position. It is an essential part of shoulder stability and ...