ReviewNPJ microgravity2023
Proprioceptive disturbances in weightlessness revisited.
Review in NPJ microgravity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Human position sense based on memories is not proprioception.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Neural changes in microgravity: Investigating the effects of aerospace environments.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2025Review
- Human limb position sense measured by repositioning during changes of gravity in parabolic flight.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Disturbances in human position sense during alterations in gravity: a parabolic flight experiment.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Comparison of joint position sense measured by inertial sensors embedded in portable digital devices with different masses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- From astronauts to stroke survivors: how the TheraSuit Method® can boost balance and recovery.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Stressors affect human motor timing during spaceflight.NPJ microgravity · 2024Article
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Abstract
The senses of limb position and movement become degraded in low gravity. One explanation is a gravity-dependent loss of fusimotor activity. In low gravity, position and movement sense accuracy can be recovered if elastic bands are stretched across the joint. Recent studies using instrumented joysticks have confirmed that aiming and tracking accuracy can be recovered in weightlessness by changing viscous and elastic characteristics of the joystick. It has been proposed that the muscle spindle signal, responsible for generating position sense in the mid-range of joint movement, is combined with input from joint receptors near the limits of joint movement to generate a position signal that covers the full working range of the joint. Here it is hypothesised that in low gravity joint receptors become unresponsive because of the loss of forces acting on the joint capsule. This leads to a loss of position and movement sense which can be recovered by imposing elastic forces across the joint.
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