ReviewExperimental brain research2023
A reassessment of the role of joint receptors in human position sense.
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- Exploring the proprioceptive potential of joint receptors using a biomimetic robotic joint.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Behavioral and psychophysical characterization of proprioceptive impairment in healthy aging: a hyper-illusory experience of movement.npj aging · 2026Article
- Central motor commands to human elbow joint muscles during simultaneous changes in their force and length: a preliminary study.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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- EMG hysteresis patterns in human elbow muscles under simultaneous force and length changes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring position sense.Experimental physiology · 2025Review
- Comparison of joint position sense measured by inertial sensors embedded in portable digital devices with different masses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sensory feedback for gait in transtibial amputees: a narrative review of technologies and clinical outcomes.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Adaptive walking performance is related to the hip joint position sense during active hip flexion rather than during passive hip flexion.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- The contribution of muscle spindles to position sense measured with three different methods.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Proprioceptive disturbances in weightlessness revisited.NPJ microgravity · 2023Review
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Abstract
In the past, the peripheral sense organs responsible for generating human position sense were thought to be the slowly adapting receptors in joints. More recently, our views have changed and the principal position sensor is now believed to be the muscle spindle. Joint receptors have been relegated to the lesser role of acting as limit detectors when movements approach the anatomical limit of a joint. In a recent experiment concerned with position sense at the elbow joint, measured in a pointing task over a range of forearm angles, we have observed falls in position errors as the forearm was moved closer to the limit of extension. We considered the possibility that as the arm approached full extension, a population of joint receptors became engaged and that they were responsible for the changes in position errors. Muscle vibration selectively engages signals of muscle spindles. Vibration of elbow muscles undergoing stretch has been reported to lead to perception of elbow angles beyond the anatomical limit of the joint. The result suggests that spindles, by themselves, cannot signal the limit of joint movement. We hypothesise that over the portion of the elbow angle range where joint receptors become active, their signals are combined with those of spindles to produce a composite that contains joint limit information. As the arm is extended, the growing influence of the joint receptor signal is evidenced by the fall in position errors.
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