PROPRIOCEPTI

ON
awareness of the body in space
PROPRIO
CEPTION
The proprioception or also known as Kinesthesia,
is the body’s capacity for motion, action, and
spatial awareness. It is a part of each muscle
movement you make

Sense
Sense of
of orientation
orientation of
of different
different body
body parts
parts
in
in relation
relation to
to each
each other.
other.
TWO TYPES OF
PROPRIOCEPTION
Conscious Unconscious
 Ability to activate a  Activation of muscles
muscle movement involuntarily in
voluntarily in response to a stimulus
response to a stimulus  communicated
 communicated by primarily via the dorsal
the dorsal column- spinocerebellar tract
medial lemniscus and ventral
pathway to spinocerebellar tract, to
the cerebrum. the cerebellum.
3 TYPES OF PROPRIOCEPTORS
1 Muscle Spindles
Monitors how much a
muscle is stretched
2 Golgi Tendon Organs
Detect a tension within a
tendon
3 Joint
Joint kinesthetic
kinesthetic receptors
receptors
Free nerve endings that
detect pressure, tension and
movement of the joint.
 PROPRIOCEPT ThePROPRIOCEPTIVE
stretch on our
The cells
ORS in our FEEDBACK
muscles and the
body that sense position changes of
proprioception, our joints that occur
that are located in when we move. This
our muscles and lets our brain know
joints and where our arms, legs,
processes sensory and body are at any
given moment, which
information when
is important for our
our body moves.
 KINESTHESIA
awareness of the position and movement of
the parts of the body using sensory organs,
which are known as proprioceptors.
 TENSION or
FORCE
what allows our limbs to move into the right
position, with the right speed and the right
amount of force required for the activity.
 JOINT
POSITION
which involves an individual’s ability
to perceive the position of a joint
without the aid of vision.
 BALANCE
works in coordination with the vision
and vestibular system to stay
balanced.