Kinesthesia: The role of muscle receptors

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 545-558

  Proske, Uwe ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fusimotor; Motor command; Movement sense; Muscle spindle; Position sense

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORCE; HUMAN; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; KINESTHESIA; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN RECEPTOR; THIXOTROPY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEEDBACK; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33750445971     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20627     Document Type: Review

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