He would be able to feel each tiny fiber of muscle stretch and pull, he would feel his bones wrenched leisurely from their sockets; he would hear his own spine snap.

The Golgi tendon organs in this study were found to have a much greater response to the dynamic phase of intercostal muscle stretch compared to the static response.

To do this, you can walk, slowly move your arms and legs, or do simple muscle stretches.

Pitt unclasped his safety belt, opened the door, and climbed out, luxuriating in a series of muscle stretches.

This creates a situation with relatively few alpha motor neurons firing but some gamma motor neurons constantly firing in conditions where muscle stretch or force is not occurring.

It is frequently attributed to the action of the golgi tendon organ, likely because of early studies showing that tendon organs are activated by strong muscle stretch and inhibit motoroneurons of the stretched muscle.

The responses of muscle spindles to changes in length also play an important role in regulating the contraction of muscles, by activating motoneurons via the stretch reflex to resist muscle stretch.

The program was designed to provide the instantaneous frequency of the afferent spikes at the corresponding amplitudes of the displacement motor that produced the muscle stretch.

The data were grouped by afferent population and graphed as means Standard Error (S.E.) with the dependent variable being spike frequency and the independent variable being amplitude and/or velocity of muscle stretch.

Splinting, to maintain muscle stretch and provide tone inhibition, and cold (i.e. in the form of ice packs), to decrease neural firing, are other strategies that can be used to temporarily decrease spasticity.