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proprioception: a standalone construct

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Physiology

The perception of the body's own position, movement, and force

Charles Sherrington coined the term proprioception in his 1906 book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System and set it out more fully in a 1907 paper, naming the body's capacity to register signals arising within itself, from muscles, tendons, and joints, rather than from the outside world. Proprioception is the perception of the position and movement of one's own limbs and trunk, the faculty by which a person knows, with eyes closed, where an arm is and how fast it is moving. Its principal receptors are the muscle spindles, small sensory organs embedded among muscle fibres that report muscle length and its rate of change, working alongside tendon and joint receptors that add information about force and angle. Uwe Proske and Simon Gandevia's 2012 review in Physiological Reviews is the standard modern synthesis, treating proprioception as a group of related perceptions that cover limb position, limb movement, force, effort, and heaviness. What makes it a landmark construct is its reach: it is the continuous internal signal the nervous system relies on to coordinate posture, balance, and voluntary movement, and it operates without conscious attention.[1][2][3]

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A perceptual capacity: the internal registration of limb position, movement, and force
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Assessed by joint position-matching and movement-detection tasks, thresholds for detecting passive limb displacement, and microneurography recording from muscle spindle and other afferent nerve fibres

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References

  1. Sherrington, C. S. (1906). The integrative action of the nervous system. Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. Sherrington, C. S. (1907). On the proprio-ceptive system, especially in its reflex aspect. Brain, 29(4), 467–482. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/29.4.467
  3. Proske, U., & Gandevia, S. C. (2012). The proprioceptive senses: Their roles in signaling body shape, body position and movement, and muscle force. Physiological Reviews, 92(4), 1651–1697. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00048.2011

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