The effect of altering afferent input from the spine and limbs on central sensorimotor integration

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There is growing evidence that periods of either increased or decreased sensory activity has the capacity to affect the way that the brain subsequently processes sensory information, both from the area of altered activity and adjacent areas. Altered input from the neck and back also has the potential to alter processing of sensory information from the upper limb. It is hypothesized that changing sensory feedback from the neck alters the environment in the nervous system into which subsequent sensory feedback from the limbs is received and processed, thus leading to altered sensorimotor integration by the brain of that input.