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Fusimotor and stretch reflex functions studied in recordings from muscle spindle afferents in man

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Muscle Receptors and Movement

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As compared with other techniques used in the study of muscle stretch receptors and their role in motor control, microelectrode recordings from human nerves (microneurography) have one main, obvious advantage. They give direct information of how the muscle feedback systems operate under normal conditions in unrestrained subjects who are able to follow the instructions of the experimenter in the execution of various motor tasks. With the experimenter himself as subject in combined microneurography and EMG recordings he can easily study to what extent he, by acts of will, can control the impulse generation in his muscle spindles and alpha motoneurons, while his muscles or limbs are exposed to various (predicted or unpredicted) external stimuli.

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  1. Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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  1. Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, SE1 7EH, UK

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Hagbarth, KE. (1981). Fusimotor and stretch reflex functions studied in recordings from muscle spindle afferents in man. In: Taylor, A., Prochazka, A. (eds) Muscle Receptors and Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06022-1_29

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