How to Use proprioceptive in a Sentence

proprioceptive

adjective
  • But the simplest and perhaps most specific form of proprioceptive training for runners is to take off their shoes and walk or run.
    Peter Francis, CNN, 3 June 2020
  • The weight of the vest helps to stimulate the proprioceptive sense, which is responsible for sensing the position and movement of the body’s muscles and joints.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This alignment works in concert with the body’s own proprioceptive system (which is how muscles keep track of joint positions).
    Jay Samit, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The overall rigidity of the shoe also provides the runner greater ground-to-foot proprioceptive feedback.
    Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 30 July 2021
  • The new midsole sidewalls encapsulate the foot and provide more of a proprioceptive fit and, underfoot there’s burlier traction and a rock plate that covers more of the foot, while the upper mesh is denser and lets in less trail dust.
    Adam Chase, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Longitudinal ribs lie under the arch of the left and right specific sock, creating a KT-tape like proprioceptive support.
    Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 July 2020
  • My first two pregnancies have been gradually becoming more proprioceptive, more attuned to the subtleties that are going on [in my body].
    Nicole Cliffe, SELF, 26 June 2019
  • Along with input from the visual and proprioceptive systems, our brain uses this information to send messages to our muscles telling them how to stay upright and evenly distribute our weight.
    Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But with time and practice, their internal models become keen enough to tune into internal balance and proprioceptive cues.
    Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021
  • These improvements come about through a learning process that depends on active two-way communication between the brain and the proprioceptive system—a network of nerves located in the muscles and connective tissues—during running.
    Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Each sensory station is designed to engage people of all ages with visual, tactile, auditory, vestibular, and proprioceptive tools straight from nature.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Having your feet and hands attached to the reformer machine’s straps and pulleys while doing exercises provides proprioceptive feedback to the body’s neuromuscular system.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2018
  • Moreover, drills help to develop the important proprioceptive awareness needed to make the shift from conscious incompetence to conscious competence.
    Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 25 July 2018
  • Instead, focus on mind-body exercises that strengthen the aspects of your nervous system impacting balance, your proprioceptive and vestibular systems.
    Dana Santas, CNN, 7 May 2021
  • This input is picked up by our bodies’ sensory systems—auditory (sound), visual (sight), oral (taste and texture), olfactory (smell), tactile (touch), proprioceptive (muscle and joint awareness), and vestibular (motion).
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Kozie clothes have therapeutic benefits, and are designed to provide proprioceptive and tactile sensory input, such as gentle pressure, to comfort children with highly sensitive nervous systems.
    Lil Lovinus, Orange County Register, 22 May 2017
  • There are autistic occupational therapists that specialize in sensory processing who can be consulted to explain safe ways to provide proprioceptive, deep-pressure feedback to help w meltdown safety.
    Chris Murphy, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2021
  • This property allows rapid proprioceptive probing of objects.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2022
  • These muscle activations will generate proprioceptive and cutaneous feedback that will activate somatosensory areas, as well as in brain regions that receive input from the superior colliculus.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2018
  • The ride is appropriately firm and proprioceptive when navigating technical footing, but noticeably softens and smooths landings, particularly on descents.
    Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 4 May 2020
  • Somatosensory and proprioceptive input signaling are required for induction, and parasympathetic and cerebellar functions mediate cardiac and motor output, respectively.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2013
  • Proper warm-up and stretching are theoretically useful, as are proprioceptive neuromuscular training and eccentric strengthening exercises (e.g. Nordic hamstring exercise).
    SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • An Illinois State University study said proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation – a specific stretching technique – improved hamstring flexibility whether it was performed assisted or unassisted.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022

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