In my articles, I use the term proprioception to describe
“… the sixth sense, namely body perception [that] informs us about the position and movement of body segments and the body in space, as well as about changes in the conditions of movement [and] is thus fundamentally involved in all movements.”
Translation by the author from: Propriozeption – Der “sechste Sinn” und seine Störungen, Jahn, K.; Krewer, C.; Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2020, erschienen in: DMW – Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 145 (2020) 25, S. 1855-1860, ISSN 0012-0472;1439-4413
“Perception of body position in space, muscle and tendon tension”
Translation by the author from: Kurzlehrbuch Medizinische Psychologie und Soziologie, Henrik Kessler, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 4. Auflage 2021, ISBN 978-3-13-244173-6, S.18
“Perception of stimuli from the skin and the musculoskeletal system”
Translation by the author from Schumacher, J.; Brähler, E. in: Befinden und Befund, in: Berth, Henrik; Balck, Friedrich; Brähler, Elmar (Hrsg.), Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie von A-Z, 1. Aufl., Göttingen, Deutschland: Hogrefe, 2008, S. 64, ISBN 978-3-8017-1789-6
“Proprioception is a complex automatic process that you can also fine-tune…”
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/proprioception (Last reviewed on 07/25/2024)
“Proprioception (sense of body positioning in space) is an important bodily neuromuscular sense. It falls under our “sixth sense”, more commonly known as somatosensation…”
https://www.physio-pedia.com/Proprioception