Proprioception, otherwise known as kinesthesia, is your body’s ability to sense movement, action, and location. It’s present in every muscle movement you have. Without proprioception, you wouldn’t be ...

Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...

Working these proprioception exercises into your workout routine may help improve your balance and athletic performance and reduce your risk of injury and falls. Proprioception, also known as ...

A nervous system circuit in fruit flies toggles between supporting stabilizing body posture reflexes or dynamic voluntary action like walking. In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are ...

Fabrice Sarlegna has received funding from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University. Chris Miall receives funding from the NIH and the Leverhulme Foundation. He has also been funded by the Royal Society ...

The key to the surgical technique, demonstrated in rats so far, is to emulate the normal agonist-antagonist pairing of muscles (think biceps and triceps) at the amputation site so that the muscles and ...

A new study investigated how proprioceptive sensory neurons (pSNs), the cells underlying the “sixth sense”, function. Can you name all your senses? Touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. What about ...