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Friday, 16 May 2008
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OCTOBER 2005 • HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine In this month's story on healing horses we talk about how poor proprioception adversely effected one little child. In this article we discuss: The CNS then relays information to the rest of the body about how to react and with what amount of tension. These receptors let us know without conscious thought the position of body parts. So basically proprioception is your body knowing where it is, without looking. So why is that important?
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he term proprioception refers to a sense of joint position. Proprioceptors are specialized sensory receptors located inside muscles, joints, and tendons that monitor the length and tension of the musculotendonous complex. In doing so, they automatically provide the central nervous system (CNS) with information concerning kinesthetic sense, or conscious appreciation of the body in three-dimensional space. 
