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COMPARATIVE STUDY
JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Spine Posture Influences Tactile Perceptual Sensitivity of the Trunk Dorsum.
Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2017 December
The purpose of the current work was to quantify the influence of posture-mediated skin deformation on trunk dorsum tactile perceptual sensitivity. Twelve young and healthy individuals were assessed while adopting three different spine postures (extension, neutral and flexion). Tactile sensitivity threshold tests (T10 and L4 vertebral levels) included measures of touch sensitivity, spatial acuity and stretch sensitivity. The results demonstrate that tactile sensitivity can differ due to changes in body posture. The skin of the trunk dorsum had increased thresholds for touch sensitivity, longitudinal spatial acuity and transverse stretch sensitivity in spine flexion. Furthermore, spine flexion also resulted in a reduced sensory threshold to stretching stimuli in the longitudinal direction. The opposite trends occurred when participants adopted spine extension. It is suggested that posture-mediated skin deformation generates changes in the amount of strain experienced by individual skin mechanoreceptors, and the relative spacing between mechanoreceptors. Furthermore, it is suggested that "pre-stretch" of the skin brings mechanoreceptors closer to their stretch activation thresholds, thereby increasing an individual's sensitivity to skin stretch when in spine flexion.
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