Abstract
Future Challenges in the Assessment of Proprioception in Exercise Sciences: Is Imitation an Alternative?
Highlights
To perform any body movement, a series of sensory processes are required that provide the necessary information
Once the body interacts with the environment in time and space, this body control needs the ocular, vestibular, tact, and auditory exteroceptive senses to obtain information from the context
Considering the serious questions regarding the practical significance of the tests currently performed to assess proprioception, there is a need to develop tests and testing batteries that consider other exteroceptive senses’ influence on proprioceptive integration future motor response during spatiotemporal body control (Ogard, 2011)
Summary
To perform any body movement, a series of sensory processes are required that provide the necessary information. The somatosensory sense involves thermoception, nociception, equilibrioception, mechanoreception, and proprioception This last sense allows humans to detect the position and motion of musculoskeletal structures (e.g., muscle [muscle spindle, Golgi tendon organs, palisade endings] and joint [Ruffini endings, Pacinian corpuscles], ligament) in relation with each other and space (Blumer, 2010), and provides force generation sensation that allows regulating force output (Lin et al, 2014), kinesthesia, and a sense of change in velocity. It includes awareness of the body in space (Norris, 2011), necessary for an appropriate spatial and temporal limb coordination during movement (Corkery and Iversen, 2016). This definition considers that proprioception should not be understood as a physiological property but the integration of physiological and psychological functions
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