Kinesthetic sense is more commonly known as muscle sense. It is the automatic feeling a living being has which tells him the position of certain parts of his body or permits him to guess how much effort he must make to move or lift an object.
Every human being possesses this sense in varying degrees. Without it he would always need to use his eyes before he moved. For instance, to move the leg a person does not need to look at his leg, but if he lacked this kinesthetic sense, he would have to look at any part of the body before he moved it.
There are tiny sensory nerves which go from either the muscle tissue, tendons, or joints up to the brain and act automatically without forcing one to think specifically about each movement he might make. This sense also tells a person the state of tension in the muscle, and helps a person control his movements or sustain them.
If one had a deficient amount of these impulses, he would not make the movements he had attempted. Through this sense a person also judges weight of objects. He can determine about how heavy something is
before he tries to pick it up or move it and thus can prepare the muscles for the weight.
It is at the extremities that this sense is greatest. Fingers are more sensitive than wrists, and hands are more sensitive than forearms.
