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«The contribution of proprioceptive information in body balance» The proprioceptive receptors are found in many parts of our body, but mainly in the muscles, joints, tendons, skin and joints. These receptors receive information from the muscles, tendons and ligaments and give us a sense of where lies our body in space and the limits thereof. Our feeds back through the brain to the body position, power as well as the range of motion to perform. This is, for example, helping us to bend the knee at the right angle to get up from a chair, climbing down a sidewalk as well as to handle for example pencils, buttons, spoons and knotted. The proprioceptive system worked through the vestibular system to then build muscle tone. While the vestibular system is mainly related to the main tone, the proprioceptive system regulates and generally organizes backgrounds tuna in relation to the whole body. The base of the core balance is the knee and through the movement of multifactorial may control and regulate the movement or even the stillness of the shank. All people have different degrees proprioception which can be reduced as a result of an injury or some pathological condition. Here intervenes physiotherapist with special machinery and the exercises to retrain proprioception aiming always either restore or mainly (as happens more and more often in recent years) to prevent future accidents.