Relationship between Joint Position Sense, Force Sense, and Muscle Strength and the Impact of Gymnastic Training on Proprioception

Niespodziński, Bartłomiej; Kochanowicz, Andrzej; Mieszkowski, Jan; Piskorska, Elżbieta; Żychowska, Małgorzata

doi:10.1155/2018/5353242

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“…We replicated the findings of Ferentzi et al (2018) , namely that cardioceptive accuracy, as assessed with the mental heartbeat tracking task, does not correlate with measures of proprioceptive accuracy (joint position reproduction and weight discrimination tests in this study). Moreover, in accordance with the findings of other studies ( Barrack et al, 1984 ; Grob et al, 2002 ; Jong et al, 2005 ; Elangovan et al, 2014 ; Li et al, 2016 ; Niespodziński et al, 2018 ; Yang et al, 2020 ), no association between accuracies with respect to two proprioceptive modalities was found. This lack of association might reflect the actual independence of the two abilities; however, conceptual differences (i.e., the weight discrimination test does not involve a reproduction element and it was measured with a forced choice paradigm) can also explain this finding.…”

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“…With respect to joint-related proprioceptive accuracy, a number of measurement paradigms were developed ( Han et al, 2016 ). Studies investigating the association between different tests in one joint ( Barrack et al, 1984 ; Grob et al, 2002 ; Jong et al, 2005 ; Elangovan et al, 2014 ; Li et al, 2016 ; Niespodziński et al, 2018 ; Yang et al, 2020 ) consistently report that accuracy is test-specific. The same conclusion can be drawn with respect to cardioception: accuracy scores obtained by heartbeat discrimination methods that use forced-choice methods and methods that use heartbeat tracking (i.e., counting) typically show no or only weak associations ( Pennebaker and Hoover, 1984 ; Weisz et al, 1988 ; Phillips et al, 1999 ; Schaefer et al, 2012 ; Hart et al, 2013 ; Schulz et al, 2013 ; Michal et al, 2014 ; Garfinkel et al, 2015a , b ; Forkmann et al, 2016 ; Ring and Brener, 2018 ).…”

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Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect

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Interoception in the broader sense refers to the perception of internal states, including the perception of the actual state of the internal organs (visceroception) and the motor system (proprioception). Dimensions of interoception include (1) interoceptive accuracy, i.e., the ability to sense internal changes assessed with behavioral tests, (2) confidence rating with respect to perceived performance in an actual behavioral test, and (3) interoceptive sensibility, i.e., the self-reported generalized ability to perceive body changes. The relationship between dimension of cardioceptive and proprioceptive modalities and their association with affect are scarcely studied. In the present study, undergraduate students (N = 105, 53 males, age: 21.0 ± 1.87 years) filled out questionnaires assessing positive and negative affect (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), interoceptive sensibility (Body Awareness Questionnaire), and body competence (Body Competence Scale of the Body Consciousness Questionnaire). Following this, they completed a behavioral task assessing cardioceptive accuracy (the mental heartbeat tracking task by Schandry) and two tasks assessing proprioceptive accuracy with respect to the tension of arm flexor muscles (weight discrimination task) and the angular position of the elbow joint (joint position reproduction task). Confidence ratings were measured with visual analog scales after the tasks. With the exception of a weak association between cardioceptive accuracy and the respective confidence rating, no associations between and within modalities were found with respect to various dimensions of interoception. Further, the interoceptive dimensions were not associated with state and trait positive and negative affect and perceived body competence. In summary, interoceptive accuracy scores do not substantially contribute to conscious representations of cardioceptive and proprioceptive ability. Within our data, non-pathological affective states (PANAS) are not associated with the major dimensions of interoception for the cardiac and proprioceptive modalities.

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Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect

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“…We used the Digit span task of PEBL software (version 0.14) (Mueller, 2014) to assess verbal capacity. In this task, participants have to memorise sequences of randomly presented digits, and reproduce them in the same order as presented, by typing them with the keyboard of the computer.…”

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“…We used the Corsi blocks task (Corsi, 1972) of PEBL software (version 0.14) (Mueller, 2014) to assess spatial capacity. In this task, participants have to memorise spatial locations.…”

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Short-term retention of proprioceptive information

Horváth

Ragó

Ferentzi

et al. 2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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The Joint Position Reproduction test (JPR), one of the most widely used measurements to estimate proprioceptive accuracy, requires the short term storage of proprioceptive information. It has been suggested that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the memorization of proprioceptive information. The current study aimed to investigate this assumption. To do so, we developed and used a novel JPR protocol to measure the retention capacity with respect to sequences of different positions. Our goal was to develop the original task further to make it comparable with other widely used short-term memory measurements, in which the memory capacity was determined by the number of the items participants retain (memory span). We compared participants’ (N=39) performance in this task to that of results of Corsi block-tapping task (capacity of the visuospatial sketchpad) and Digit span task (capacity of the phonological loop). Proprioceptive memory capacity did not correlate either with spatial or verbal memory capacity. The exploratory analysis revealed that proprioceptive span correlated positively with the performance if 5 joint positions had to be retained. Further associations with verbal span for 6 or 7 positions, and spatial span for 5 positions were found. Our findings do not support the idea that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the storage of proprioceptive information. The independence of span measures indicates that proprioceptive information might be stored in a subsystem independent of the visuospatial sketchpad or phonological loop.

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“…For example, while muscle spindles are known to be mainly responsible for position sense and Golgi tendon organs for force perception, recent studies [22–24] found that muscle spindles are also involved in the perception of force and heaviness. Thus, the simultaneous processing of motions and forces could represent a challenge and it might also lead to reciprocal interferences, a crucial topic that was rather disregarded in recent years [21, 25].…”

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Interaction between position sense and force control in bimanual tasks

Ballardini

Ponassi

Galofaro

et al. 2019

J NeuroEngineering Rehabil

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BackgroundSeveral daily living activities require people to coordinate the motion and the force produced by both arms, using their position sense and sense of effort. However, to date, the interaction in bimanual tasks has not been extensively investigated.MethodsWe focused on bimanual tasks where subjects were required: (Experiment 1) to move their hands until reaching the same position – equal hand position implied identical arm configurations in joint space - under different loading conditions;(Experiment 2) to produce the same amount of isometric force by pushing upward, with their hands placed in symmetric or asymmetric positions.The arm motions and forces required for accomplishing these tasks were in the vertical direction. We enrolled a healthy population of 20 subjects for Experiment 1 and 25 for Experiment 2. Our primary outcome was the systematic difference between the two hands at the end of each trial in terms of position for Experiment 1 and force for Experiment 2. In both experiments using repeated measure ANOVA we evaluated the effect of each specific condition, namely loading in the former case and hand configuration in the latter.ResultsIn the first experiment, the difference between the hands’ positions was greater when they were concurrently loaded with different weights. Conversely, in the second experiment, when subjects were asked to exert equal forces with both arms, the systematic difference between left and right force was not influenced by symmetric or asymmetric arm configurations, but by the position of the left hand, regardless of the right hand position. The performance was better when the left hand was in the higher position.ConclusionsThe experiments report the reciprocal interaction between position sense and sense of effort inbimanual tasks performed by healthy subjects. Apart for the intrinsic interest for a better understanding of basic sensorimotor processes, the results are also relevant to clinical applications, for defining functional evaluation and rehabilitative protocols for people with neurological diseases or conditions that impair the ability to sense and control concurrently position and force.

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Relationship between Joint Position Sense, Force Sense, and Muscle Strength and the Impact of Gymnastic Training on Proprioception

Cited by 37 publications

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Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect

Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect

Short-term retention of proprioceptive information

Interaction between position sense and force control in bimanual tasks

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