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Muscles cease to tense up and neck, back, arm, hand, etc., muscles feel looser and without pain after an initial feeling of stiffness and discomfort.
A feeling of stiffness is an important predictor of disability, but the assumption that feeling stiff reflects actually being stiff has rarely been investigated.
Last, congruent auditory information applied with pressure to the spine modulates perception of the back, supporting the idea that a feeling of stiffness is a multisensory perceptual inference that serves bodily protection.
A feeling of joint stiffness has been shown to remain despite loss of the limb15 suggesting that the bodily feeling of stiffness can be independent to the biological state of the tissues.
Indeed, further research is warranted to determine if this protective perceptual inference, e.g., a feeling of stiffness, results in protective behaviour such as movement avoidance in people with back pain and stiffness.
The feeling of stiffness in my joints also decreases" (Interviewee 24).
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Given the positive relationship between force estimation error and feelings of stiffness (the more stiff you feel – the greater the error), this raises the possibility that we may directly target feelings of stiffness with such auditory cues.
To determine if feelings of stiffness correspond to how stiff the back actually is, we used Spearman's rho.
Specifically, Study 1a interrogated the prevailing view that feelings of stiffness reflect objective biomechanical back stiffness.
FEE was calculated for each indentation (estimated magnitude minus 60 N) and used as a surrogate for feelings of stiffness to allow comparisons between groups (no feelings of stiffness in healthy controls).
This also raises an important discussion of what people are describing when they refer to experiencing feelings of stiffness.
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