STUDY DESIGN A test-retest design evaluated stability as well as within and between day reliability. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to define optimum protocols for the cervical joint position error (JPE) and cervicocephalic kinesthesia tests and to investigate association between performances in the tests. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The cervical JPE and cervicocephalic kinesthesia tests are prop...

Proprioception, the sense of where one is in space, is essential for effective interaction with the environment. A lack of or reduction in proprioceptive acuity has been directly correlated with falls and with reduced functional independence in older people. Proprioceptive losses have also been shown to negatively correlate with functional recovery post stroke and play a significant role in oth...

Proprioception plays an important role in the complex mechanism of joint control. Contemporary sport activities impose extremely high physical demands on athletes. Winter sports are played in areas with excessively low temperatures. Moreover, many athletes are subjected to treatments that involve local lowering of the body temperature before, during, and after physical activity. This work revie...

QUESTIONS Is loss of proprioception or loss of motor control related to functional ankle instability? Are proprioception and motor control related? Is there any difference in proprioception or motor control between ankles with different severity of functional ankle instability? DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. PARTICIPANTS Twenty people aged between 18 and 40 years with function...

BACKGROUND While there have been investigations into the reduced neck injury rate of wearing protective helmets, there is little information on its effects on normal kinaesthetic neck function. This study aims to quantify the kinaesthetic and movement effects of the American football helmet. METHODS Fifteen British Collegiate American football players (mean age 22.2, SD 1.9; BMI kg.m(2) 26.3,...

BACKGROUND ACL-deficient patients have been found to have proprioceptive defects, but the cause of these defects has not been identified nor has the relationship between proprioception and subjective function, laxity, activity level and age been adequately studied. PATIENTS AND METHODS Therefore, we analyzed proprioception, defined as the threshold to detect a slow passive motion (TTDPM), in ...

INTRODUCTION Natural head position (NHP) has been defined as the cranial position that is attained when individuals stand with their visual axes in the true horizontal plane. The visual axis is considered to be a key component in establishing, and maintaining NHP so that, in the absence of visual stimuli, gravitation and muscular proprioception chiefly control head position. SUBJECTS AND METH...

[Purpose] The Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of spiral taping on proprioception in functional ankle instability. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-five participants in this study had discomfort in only one ankle and Cumberland ankle instability score of ≤23. ST was applied to the unstable ankle, and proprioception was measured baseline and 30 min later. Proprioception was meas...

Decreasing proprioception of the knee is multifactorial and is a function of age and degenerative joint disease. Soft-tissue release during total knee replacement may have an influence. We have quantified soft-tissue imbalance at the time of knee replacement and attempted to eliminate it at full extension, using established methods. We studied the influence of residual soft-tissue imbalance on ...

proprioception has been found to have a relation to subjective knee function and patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome (pfps) seem to have larger deficits than asymptomatic individuals little is known about whether taping can restore defects in proprioception or by which mechanisms it can improve anterior knee pain. to determine the effect of patellar taping on knee joint proprioception a ...