Muscle Spindle and Stretch Reflexes.

Main Contents.

  • Muscle Spindle Basics.
  • Muscle Spindle Structure.
  • Dynamic Bag 1 Fibre Response.
  • Static Bag 2 Fibre Response.
  • Nuclear Chain Fibre Response.
  • Innervation.
  • Functional Aspects of Muscle Spindles.
  • Stretch Reflexes.
  • Motor Control Pathways to Alpha and Gamma Motoneurones.
  • The Role of Muscle Spindles in Posture and Movement.

    • Acknowledgements.

    Unless otherwise acknowledged visual material courtesy of Ian Boyd and Margaret Gladden.
    University of Glasgow.

    Many thanks for the advice on the structure and content of this document to Anthony Taylor and Rade Durbaba
    Charing Cross Medical School

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    Comments on content to j.mcgarrick@umds.ac.uk

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