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ReviewExperimental brain research2019

Exercise, fatigue and proprioception: a retrospective.

Uwe Proske

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In one paragraph

Review in Experimental brain research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05307302 (The Relationship Between Elbow Proprioception, Upper Extremity Physical Performance, and Passing Accuracy in Adolescent Basketball Players), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05307302 completednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

The Relationship Between Elbow Proprioception, Upper Extremity Physical Performance, and Passing Accuracy in Adolescent Basketball Players

TypeobservationalSponsorKutahya Health Sciences UniversityRan2022 to 2022Enrolled45ConditionsBasketball PlayersArmsForce Sense, Joint Reproduction Sense, Seated Medicine Ball Throw, Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test, Passing Accuracy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Uwe ProskeDepartment of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia. uwe.proske@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8776-8431
Monash University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is an account of experiments carried out in my laboratory over more than 20 years, exploring the influence of exercise on human limb position sense. It is known that after intense exercise we are clumsy in the execution of skilled movements. The first question we posed concerned eccentric exercise, where the contracting muscle is forcibly lengthened. Such exercise produces muscle damage, and the damage might extend to the muscle's proprioceptors, the muscle spindles, producing a disturbance of limb position sense. However, provided the exercise was sufficiently severe (20-30% fall in muscle force), comparing eccentric exercise with concentric exercise, where no damage ensues, there was no difference in the effects on position sense. After exercise of elbow muscles, the forearm was always perceived as more extended than its actual position. It led to a new hypothesis: after exercise, did the extra effort required to lift the fatigued arm provide a position signal? Findings based on spindles' thixotropic behaviour did not support such a proposition for the elbow joint, although at the wrist an effort signal may contribute. Spindle thixotropy has also been proposed to explain the poor proprioception experienced under conditions of weightlessness. After exercise of elbow extensors or flexors, the position errors were always in the direction of forearm extension. At the knee, after exercise the lower leg was always perceived as more flexed. These findings led to the conclusion that disturbances to position sense, post-exercise, did not involve peripheral receptors, and that the effect arose within the brain.

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ExerciseFatigueHumansMuscle ContractionMuscle, SkeletalMuscle SpindlesProprioceptionRetrospective StudiesKinaesthesiaMuscle exerciseMuscle fatigueMuscle spindlePosition senseThixotropy

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PMID31471677
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