Trial reportJournal of neurophysiology2012
Can proprioceptive training improve motor learning?
Trial report in Journal of neurophysiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.
- Applications, indications, and effects of passive hydrotherapy WATSU (WaterShiatsu)-A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- The impact of bimanual reach training with augmented position sense feedback on post-stroke upper limb somatosensory and motor impairment.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- Proprioceptive Gaming: Making Finger Sensation Training Intense and Engaging with the P-Pong Game and PINKIE Robot.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2021Trial
- Dynamic scapular recognition exercise improves scapular upward rotation and shoulder pain and disability in patients with adhesive capsulitis: a randomized controlled trial.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2020Trial
- Time flies when you are in a groove: using entrainment to mechanical resonance to teach a desired movement distorts the perception of the movement's timing.Experimental brain research · 2014Trial
- Recording Cortical Somatosensory Responses During Cross-Country Skiing: A Feasibility and Reproducibility EEG Study.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Task-relevant haptic feedback improves asymptotic performance in de novo arm control acquisition.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- FRONTAL AND PARIETAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROPRIOCEPTION AND MOTOR SKILL LEARNING.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Hand-Focused Strength and Proprioceptive Training for Improving Grip Strength and Manual Dexterity in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Transcutaneous spinal stimulation paired with visual feedback facilitates retention of improved weight transfer toward the affected side in people post-stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- A pilot study for self-guided, active robotic training of proprioception of the upper limb in chronic stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Role of Sensory Impairments on Recovery and Rehabilitation After Stroke.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2025Review
- Neural signatures of online and offline motor learning: An ALE meta-analysis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Using a Webcam to Assess Upper Extremity Proprioception: Experimental Validation and Application to Persons Post Stroke.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Consolidation of Newly Learned Movements Depends upon the Somatosensory Cortex in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Short-Term Reproduction of Active Movement with Visual Feedback and Passive Movement with a Therapist's Hands.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Fast learning without synaptic plasticity in spiking neural networks.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The effects of errorless psychomotor training in the Y balance lower limb reaching task.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Immersive interfaces for clinical applications: current status and future perspective.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2024Review
- Can motor competence be influenced by the type of training interventions preschool children are exposed to? A randomized experimental study comparing sports games and psychomotricity activities.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent work has investigated the link between motor learning and sensory function in arm movement control. A number of findings are consistent with the idea that motor learning is associated with systematic changes to proprioception (Haith A, Jackson C, Mial R, Vijayakumar S. Adv Neural Inf Process Syst 21: 593-600, 2008; Ostry DJ, Darainy M, Mattar AA, Wong J, Gribble PL. J Neurosci 30: 5384-5393, 2010; Vahdat S, Darainy M, Milner TE, Ostry DJ. J Neurosci 31: 16907-16915, 2011). Here, we tested whether motor learning could be improved by providing subjects with proprioceptive training on a desired hand trajectory. Subjects were instructed to reproduce both the time-varying position and velocity of novel, complex hand trajectories. Subjects underwent 3 days of training with 90 movement trials per day. Active movement trials were interleaved with demonstration trials. For control subjects, these interleaved demonstration trials consisted of visual demonstration alone. A second group of subjects received visual and proprioceptive demonstration simultaneously; this group was presented with the same visual stimulus, but, in addition, their limb was moved through the target trajectory by a robot using servo control. Subjects who experienced the additional proprioceptive demonstration of the desired trajectory showed greater improvements during training movements than control subjects who only received visual information. This benefit of adding proprioceptive training was seen in both movement speed and position error. Interestingly, additional control subjects who received proprioceptive guidance while actively moving their arm during demonstration trials did not show the same improvement in positional accuracy. These findings support the idea that the addition of proprioceptive training can augment motor learning, and that this benefit is greatest when the subject passively experiences the goal movement.
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