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muscle spindle

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muscle spindle
n.
A stretch receptor in vertebrate muscle.


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As noted by Davies & Young (1983) the impaired ability of the muscle spindle to trigger the stretch-reflex may have decreased the amount of elastic potential which could be produced during the eccentric loading phase of muscular contraction.
The whole PNF process is to "trick" the muscle spindle fibers that contract a muscle when it's stretched too far, too fast.
 
 
 
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