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A quick google search says muscles are the primary receptors in humans, before it was believed the joints played that role. From my experience with anesthesia I
by ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
A quick google search says muscles are the primary receptors in humans, before it was believed the joints played that role. From my experience with anesthesia I reckon it's a little bit of everything, with the sensation of different organs being weighed differently in the final estimation.
Unless you're in a vacuum as suggested in another comment I don't think you could draw definitive conclusions on the role of the skin from wearing a coat, the air flow might be mostly prevented but the weight and friction of your coat over the top of your arm as you move would be essentially the same input.
- camtarn 5y agoI think that linking skin sensations to proprioception is pretty dubious. Think about walking in a high gale. The air will be pressing your outer layers to your body in a way that adds extra 'weight', but there's not even the slightest sensation of phantom movement in your limbs. Maybe it's a very low-weighted input, but I very much doubt proprioception is 'heavily based' on it as you said earlier.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoYou don't get phantom movements when you get a deep tissue massage yet the muscles are very much involved. There is also literature on the role of the skin in proprioception in humans. That being said, heavily might be overstated, I wasn't trying to claim an authoritative view on the matter, only reporting what I felt while anesthesia was wearing off.
- camtarn 5y agoHm, yeah, that's a fair point.