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Reflex, Stretch

Known as: Stretch Reflex, myotatic reflex 
Reflex contraction of a muscle in response to stretching, which stimulates muscle proprioceptors.
National Institutes of Health

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Muscle SpindlesMuscle functionaspects of radiation effectsphysiological aspects

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Reflex actionReflex motion descriptor

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Reflex, Tendon

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Specificity of Reflex Adaptation for Task-Relevant Variability
The motor system responds to perturbations with reflexes, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex or stretch reflex, whose gains… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Neurophysiological methods for the assessment of spasticity: The Hoffmann reflex, the tendon reflex, and the stretch reflex
Purpose: To review the literature concerning neurophysiological methods to assess spasticity with respect to mechanisms and… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Soleus stretch reflex modulation during gait in humans.
1. The modulation of the short-latency stretch reflex during walking at different walking speeds was investigated and compared… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Botulinum A toxin effects on rat jaw muscle spindles.
Botulinum A toxin (Botox) is used for the treatment of many muscular dystonias. However, the relief of the sustained and abnormal… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Relief of hemiparetic spasticity by TENS is associated with improvement in reflex and voluntary motor functions.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Transient reversal of the stretch reflex in human arm muscles.
1. Load perturbation responses can violate the law of reciprocal innervation between antagonist muscles under particular… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Evidence from the use of vibration that the human long‐latency stretch reflex depends upon spindle secondary afferents.
The electromyographic activity of flexor pollicis longus has been recorded in normal human subjects on moving the tip of the… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Regulation of stiffness by skeletomotor reflexes.
Since the early 1950s when Merton (44) first introduced his "follow-up servo hypothesis" of movement control, the dominant… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Stretch reflex and servo action in a variety of human muscles.
1. In the long flexor of the thumb the latency of the stretch reflex and of other manifestations of servo action is some 45 msec… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
The dependence of tension upon extension in the stretch reflex of the soleus muscle of the decerebrate cat
In their description of the stretch reflex, Liddell & Sherrington (1924) stated that 'so long as the stretch increases, the… 
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