| （1.Department of Physical Education，Renmin University of China，Beijing 100872，China；2.College of Physical Education and Sports，Beijing Normal University，Beijing 100875，China) Abstract: The authors measured children’s knee joint proprioception ability by using X-SENS 3D joint position sense measurement system, and the testees’ moving actions and operating actions by using gross motor development test (TGMD-2), evaluated children’s gross motor development level, compared the characteristics of proprioception ability and gross motor development level of children of different ages, probed into their correlation, and revealed the following findings: 1) children’s proprioception ability is significantly age different, enhanced as their age increases, and constantly improved; ages 3 to 6 is a period when proprioception ability develops rapidly; 2) ages 3 to 6 is a critical period for children movement development, in which gross motor development level is significantly age different; as their age increases, children’s gross motor development level increases constantly, yet has not shown significant gender differences; there is a very significant positive correlation between children’s proprioception ability and their gross mo-tor development level: the better their proprioception, the higher their gross motor development level; while there is no significant correlation between children’s proprioception and their body mass index. Human beings’ movement learn-ing and development cannot be carried out without proprioception, people should provide more exercise opportunities for children, let them experience rich proprioception during exercising, learn diversified moving modes, and get com-prehensive movement parameters, thus helping them establish and perfect their basic modes of movement.
Key words: exercise phisiology；proprioception；gross motor development；ability evaluation；young children |
