The sense of position and movement in the knee joint during voluntary movements.

The aim of the paper was to assess body position reproduction as well as jump height during an intended movement, together with an assessment of the influence of factors that disturb this process. Factors disturbing the jump were related to with the reproduction of different knee joint angles (90° or 120°); different muscle activity in performed jumps: SJ with no countermovement and CMJ with countermovement; as well as with and without visual (VC) of control movement (nVC) - eyes covered. Nineteen subjects aged twenty-one years participated in the experiment. Jump height (h) was calculated on the basis of a reaction force (R) of the base, as registered with a tensometric platform. Two-dimensional cinematographic analysis was used to assess the reproduction of angular position in the knee joint. A significant factor determining the level of position reproduction during voluntary movements was the imposed angle as well as the character of muscle activity. The biggest difficulty of developing maximum heights occurred during jumps with disturbed visual control (eyes shut).