Age-Related Differences in Upper Limb Proprioceptive Acuity

Adamo, Diane E.

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“…Overall, these results are strongly in line with the current field of knowledge on proprioceptive acuity in older age. Specifically, several other investigators have reported an age-related decline in motion (Kokmen et al 1978;Wright et al 2011) and position sense of the upper limbs (Adamo et al 2007;Adamo et al 2009;Herter et al 2014). These deteriorations may partially be caused by physiological changes in the structure and function of muscle spindles throughout late adulthood (Herter et al 2014;Kalisch et al 2012;Proske and Gandevia 2012).…”

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“…Specifically, there was no evidence to show that the withdrawal of visual feedback increased aiming errors in the non-active older adults more than in the other three groups, even though the proprioceptive ability of this group was, generally, inferior (negating hypothesis 3). Those seemingly contradicting outcomes require further attention because main body of findings from both experiments are consisted with a vast body of literature on effects of physical activity and aging on manual aiming (e.g., Chaput and Proteau 1996;Lyons et al 1996;Seidler-Dobrin and Stelmach 1998;Van Halewyck et al 2014) and proprioception (e.g., Adamo et al 2007;Adamo et al 2009;Herter et al 2014;Wright et al 2011). The specific effects of age and physical activity level on manual aiming and proprioception as emerged in findings of experiment 1 and experiment 2 are discussed in more details next.…”

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“…The limitation was not addressed as it is extremely difficult to accurately quantify one's lifelong history of physical activity. As a result, dividing participants based on the results of a physical activity questionnaire remains a common practice in motor control research (e.g., Adamo et al 2007;Adamo et al 2009;McGregor et al 2011;Petrella et al 1997;Pickard et al 2003;Wright et al 2011).…”

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“…This outcome is considered to reflect an increased dependence on limb-target control (Lyons et al 1996;Seidler-Dobrin and Stelmach 1998) which possibly allows older adults to achieve the same level of endpoint accuracy as young adults (Boisseau et al 2002;Ketcham et al 2002;Lyons et al 1996;Welsh et al 2007). The increased dependence on limb-target control in older adults may perhaps be explained by a decline in proprioceptive acuity (Adamo et al 2007;Adamo et al 2009;Herter et al 2014;Kokmen et al 1978;Wright et al 2011;see Goble et al 2009, for a review), impaired efficiency of feedback processing (Rand and Stelmach 2011;Stelmach et al 1988;Temprado et al 2013;Van Halewyck et al 2015b), or both. Indeed, well-documented evidence show that agerelated declines in proprioceptive acuity has led many to suggest that visual feedback becomes increasingly important during accurate aiming in older age (e.g., Coats and Wann 2011;Rand and Stelmach 2011;Terrier et al 2011).…”

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Manual aiming in healthy aging: does proprioceptive acuity make the difference?

Helsen

Halewyck

Levin

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The present study examines whether nonactive older adults are more dependent on visual information when executing aiming movements and whether age-related declines in proprioception play a mediating role herein. Young (N = 40) and older adults (N = 38) were divided into physically active and non-active subgroups based on self-reported sports participation levels. In experiment 1, participants executed wrist-aiming movements with and without visual feedback. In experiment 2, passive proprioceptive acuity was assessed using wrist motion detection and position matching tests. Results showed similar aiming accuracy across age groups both with and without visual feedback, but older adults exhibited longer movement times, prolonged homing-in phase, and made more corrective submovements. Passive proprioceptive acuity was significantly affected by physical activity level and age, with participants in the active group scoring better than their non-active peers. However, these declines did not predict performance changes on the aiming task. Taken together, our observations suggest that decline in proprioceptive acuity did not predict performance changes on the aiming task and older adults were able to compensate for their decreased motion and position sense when allowed sufficient time. In line with these observations, we proposed that older adults are able to compensate for their decline in proprioception by increasing their reliance on predictive models.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Classification Of Physical Activity Level As a Study Limitationmentioning

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Manual aiming in healthy aging: does proprioceptive acuity make the difference?

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Halewyck

Levin

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“…Adaptation of a method classically used to test the proprioceptive perception could remove the aforementioned limits in internal models assessment: the contralateral concurrent joint position matching task (Adamo et al 2007;Goble and Brown 2007). In this task, a subject's limb is displaced to a reference position.…”

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Ageing of internal models: from a continuous to an intermittent proprioceptive control of movement

Boisgontier

Nougier

2012

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To control the sensory-motor system, internal models mimic the transformations between motor commands and sensory signals. The present study proposed to assess the effects of physiological adult ageing on the proprioceptive control of movement and the related internal models. To this aim, one group of young adults and one group of older adults performed an ankle contralateral concurrent matching task in two speed conditions (self-selected and fast). Error, temporal and kinematic variables were used to assess the matching performance. The results demonstrated that older adults used a different mode of control as compared to the young adults and suggested that the internal models of proprioceptive control were altered with ageing. Behavioural expressions of these alterations were dependent upon the considered condition of speed. In the self-selected speed condition, this alteration was expressed through an increased number of corrective sub-movements in older adults as compared to their young peers. This strategy enabled them to reach a level of end-point performance comparable to the young adults' performance. In the fast speed condition, older adults were no more able to compensate for their impaired internal models through additional corrective sub-movements and therefore decreased their proprioceptive control performance. These results provided the basis for a model of proprioceptive control of movement integrating the internal models theory and the continuous and intermittent modes of control. This study also suggested that motor control was affected by the frailty syndrome, i.e. a decreased resistance to stressors, which characterises older adults.

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Position sense asymmetry

Adamo

Martin

2008

Exp Brain Res

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Asymmetries in upper limb position sense have been explained in the context of a left limb advantage derived from differences in hemispheric specialization in the processing of kinesthetic information. However, it is not clearly understood how the comparison of perceptual information associated with passive limb displacement and the corresponding matching movement resulting from the execution of a motor command contributes to these differences. In the present study, upper limb position sense was investigated in 12 right-hand-dominant young adults performing wrist position matching tasks which varied in terms of interhemispheric transfer, memory retrieval and whether the reference position was provided by the same or opposite limb. Right and left hand absolute matching errors were similar when the reference and matching positions were produced by the same hand but were 36% greater when matching the reference position with the opposite hand. When examining the constant errors generated from matching movements made with the same hand that provided the reference, the right and left hand matching errors (≈3°) were similar. However, when matching with the opposite limb, a large overshoot (P <0.05) characterized the error when the right hand matched the left hand reference while a large undershoot (P <0.05) characterized the error when the left hand matched the right hand reference. The overshoot and undershoot were of similar magnitude (≈4°). Although asymmetries in the central processing of proprioceptive information such as inter-hemispheric transfer may exist, the present study suggests that asymmetries in position sense predominantly result from a difference in the “gain of the respective proprioceptive sensory-motor loops”. This new hypothesis is strongly supported by a dual-linear model representing the right and left hand sensory-motor systems as well as morphological and physiological data.

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Age-Related Differences in Upper Limb Proprioceptive Acuity

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Manual aiming in healthy aging: does proprioceptive acuity make the difference?

Manual aiming in healthy aging: does proprioceptive acuity make the difference?

Ageing of internal models: from a continuous to an intermittent proprioceptive control of movement

Position sense asymmetry

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