Kinesthesia, balance and agility (KBA) neuromuscular exercises are commonly used for rehabilitation of lower extremity injuries. KBA combined with strength training (ST) reportedly improves function among persons with knee osteoarthritis (OA), but independent effects of KBA are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of KBA exercises, independent of ST, to improve funct...

PURPOSE The present study sought to determine the influences of single-bundle (SB), single-bundle augmentation (SBA), and double-bundle (DB) reconstructions on balance ability and proprioceptive function. METHODS 67 patients who underwent a single- or double-bundle ACL reconstruction or a SBA using multistranded autologous hamstring tendons were included in this study with a 1-year follow-up....

When the apparent visual location of a body part conflicts with its veridical location, vision can dominate proprioception and kinesthesia. In this article, we show that vision can capture tactile localization. Participants discriminated the location of vibrotactile stimuli (upper, at the index finger, vs. lower, at the thumb), while ignoring distractor lights that could independently be upper ...

RATIONALE Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) often have deficits in kinesthesia. There is a need for rehabilitation interventions that improve these kinesthetic deficits. Forced (tandem) cycling at a high cadence improves motor function. However, tandem cycling is difficult to implement in a rehabilitation setting. OBJECTIVE To construct an instrumented, motored cycle and to examine if...

Proprioception, encompassing the submodalities of kinesthesia and joint position sense, is important in the maintenance of joint stability, especially in the shoulder. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of plane and elevation angle on unconstrained shoulder joint position sense. Twenty-two subjects (12 male, 10 female) without a history of shoulder pathology were recruited fro...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a frequent complication of diabetes and a major cause of morbidity and increased mortality. It is typically characterized by significant deficits in tactile sensitivity, vibration sense, lower-limb proprioception, and kinesthesia. Painful diabetic neuropathy (P-DPN) is a common phenotype of DPN that affects up to one-third of the general diabetic populati...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to evaluate sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder SUBJECTS AND METHODS 37 cases with developmental coordination disorder and 35 healthy age-matched peers were included in this study. Ayres Southern California Sensory Integration Test was used for evaluating the sensory integration and Function...

1 [email protected] 09/11/2009 Rotating a joint stretches the soft tissues on one side of the joint and relaxes them on the other side. All the soft tissues around joints contain mechanoceptors neurons that are activated by stretch. Thus stretch responses of mechanoceptors potentially contain information about joint displacement or movements, and are therefore of interest to study motor...